while she was making a distinction where there was li difference herself in she i j in accord she had made to break an accepted ik law but no law known to the en in which i fancied herself such an it was a in the n attacked by the warm were di t into isolated within hollows and where they waited till they should be an to not the sun on account of the mist a maiden no personal look demanding the masculine for its adequate expression his present aspect coupled with the lack of all human forms in the scene explained the in a moment one could feel that a religion had never prevailed imder the sky the was a golden haired beaming faced mild eyed creature gazing down in the vigor and of youth upon an earth that was with interest for him his light a little later broke through of cottage shutters throwing like red hot upon of drawers and other furniture within and awakening who were not already but of all ruddy things that morning the brightest were two broad arms of painted wood which rose from the margin of a corn field hard by village they with two others below formed the revolving cross of the machine which had been brought to the field on the previous to be ready for operations this day the paint with which they were in hue by tlie sunlight imparted to them a look of having bee i dipped in liquid fire the field had already been opened that is to say a lane a few feet wide had been hand cut through the wheat along the whole of the field for the first passage of the horses and machine two groups one of men and lads the other of women had come down the lane just at the hour when the shadows of the eastern hedge top struck the west hedge so that the heads of the groups were enjoying sunrise while their feet were still in the dawn they disappeared from the lane between the two stone posts which the nearest field gate presently there arose from within a like the love of the the machine had begun and � moving was visible over the gate a driver i of the d n one of tbe and cm the seat of the along side of the the whole went the arms of the me re revolving slowly till it passed down the hill quite oi sight in a minute it came up on the other side of the at the same pace the glistening star in of the fore horse catching the eye as it rose view over the then the bright arms and then whole machine the narrow lane of the field wider with each circuit and the standing com was to smaller area as the morning wore on makes retreated inward as into a aware of the nature of their refuge doom that awaited them later in the day when their shrinking to a more and more horrible the were huddled together friends and foes till the last few of upright wheat fell also the teeth of the and they were every one put to death by and stones of the the machine left the fallen com behind it in little heaps h heap being of tbe quantity for a af npon these tlie active in the rear laid their � mainly women but some of them men in print � � trousers supported around their by r rendering useless the two buttons behind and with at every movement of b as if they were a pair of eyes in the small of ui back but those of the other sex were the most company of by reason of tbe charm by woman when she becomes part and nature and is not merely an set down thi as at ordinary times a man is a a woman is a portion of the field she has no i re b lost her own the of her surrounding and herself with it the women � or rather girls for they were mostly young � drawn cotton i ith great flapping to p off tht and gloves to prevent their hands by the there was one wearing a jacket another in a cream tight another in a as red a the arms of the machine and others older in the brown rough � cr or over all � th� old established and most appropriate dress of tho the young one s morning the eye returns u the girl in tho pink cotton jacket she being the most and finely drawn figure of them all but her bonnet is pulled so far over her brow that none of her face is disclosed she though her complexion may be guessed from a stray or two of dark brown hair which the curtain of her bonnet per j h one reason why she casual attention is that � he never courts it though the other women often gaze around her binding proceeds with clock like monotony the last finished she draws a handful of ears patting � h ir tips with her left palm to bring them even then � low she moves ard gathering the com with i � against her knees and pushing her left i under the bundle to meet the right on tho other side ij the com in an embrace like that of a lover � rings tlie ends of the bond together and on the ij af while she ties it beating back her skirts now and when lifted by the breeze a bit of her naked arm is between the leather of the and the eve of her gown and as the day we rs on its feminine becomes by the and at intervals she stands up to rest and to re tie her of tub d or to her bonnet straight then 