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Title: The farmer's boy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: Farm life -- New England Rural children -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rink of water. There was nothing tastedmuch better than water when he was dry that way, unlessit was the sweetened water that they took in a jugright down to the hayficld with them. I do not wish to give the impression that haying was madeu)) too much of sweat and toil, and that the boy foundthis )xriod ahogethera season of trial and tribulation.The work was not at all bad on cool days, and some boysliked the jumping about on load and mow. There wasfun in the jolting, rattling ride on the springless wagonto the havfield, and when the haycocks in the orchardwere rolled u)) for the night, the boys had great sjiortturning somersaults oxer them. Jhen there were ex-hilarating occasions when the sky blackened, and tromthe distant hori/on came llie Hashing and muttering ofan approaching tliunderslorm. Everybody did his l)estthen; thev raced the horses to tlie lield and \hv liay wasrolled up, and forkful after forkful went twinkling up onthe lo.id in no time. Hut the siorni was likely to come
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Summer 103 before they were done. There was a spattering of greatdrops, that gave warning, and a dash of cold wind, andeverybody — teams and all — would race helter-skelterto the bams. The\ were in luck if they i^o( there beforetile wliole air was lilled with llie ll_\inLi; (lr()))s. It wasa ))leasurable excitement. an\wa\, and the b()\ fell \erycomfortable, in spite of his wet clothes, as he sat on themeal-chest talking with the others, listening to the rollingthunder and the rain rattling on the roof and s))lashinginto the yard from the eaves-spout. He looked out ofthe big barn doors into the sheeted rain thai \eiled thefields with its hurrying mists, and saw its half-gloomslit up now and ilu-n ))\ the ))allid Hashes of the lightning. Presently came a Ijurst of sunlight, the rain ceased, andas the storm receded a rainbow arched its shreddedtatters. All Nature glittered and dri))))ed and tinkh?d.The trees and fields had the freshness of s))ring, and thetips of every leaf and ever

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