"As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female laborers have to make the best of it in the barn."
"As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female labourers have to make the best of it in the barn."
"Many a ploughman delves his way to and from them still in all weathers, when the snow is on the ground; at the time of "hairst," and when the turnip "shaws" have just forced themselves through the earth, looking like straight rows of green needles."