Hairst, harvest-time.

"We need, say, a hundred thousand men in harvest-time, and not ten thousand all the rest of the year.

Here the fungus threads keep pace with the growth of the plant and reach maturity at or slightly before harvest-time.

I'll run over here again to see youaround harvest-time.

At this season, with harvest-time near at hand, it had been in former years no unusual sight to see strings of laborers passing by.

The end of that harvest-time came as a surprise to Kurt.

Never had the harvest-time been so sweet.

The nascent seeds of golden harvest-time.

They were buying from the lord, in whose "demesne" they lay, permission to gather wood in the forest, right of common in its pasture, the commutation of their services in harvest-time for "reap-silver," and of their bondage to the lord's mill for "multure-penny."

Never before had the farmers been so put to it for farm service; harvest-time had come, and instead of the stream of laborers seeking employment, which usually at this season set in as regularly as river freshets in spring, it was this year almost impossible to hire any one.

Others live with their families in their own houses and render service to their lords at sowing and harvest-time, also as boatmen, or in the construction of houses, etc.

But it was harvest-time now, and the rural allies of Gracchus were away from home in the fields.

Isak gave much thought to the powers above; ay, he had seen God with his own eyes, one night in harvest-time, in the woods; it was rather a curious sight.

Good; fetch them alongyou'll find it'll pay you at harvest-time!" Restless againup and off to Sivert once more.

It was harvest-time that year, and they took everything, and destroyed what they did not take.

[Illustration: Harvest-Time in Canada.

One hot day in the harvest-time, a little boy named Willy got leave of his father to go out into the corn-field to watch the reapers bind up the sheaves and load the wagons; and he gathered the field-flowers, and formed them into wreaths to give to his mother, because she loved them dearly.

So's ter sing a big thanksgivin' fer the comin' harvest-time;

He had, to be sure, the advantage of living at the proper harvest-time, of expending his activity in a Protestant country teeming with life, where the madness of bigotry was silent for a time, so that a man like Shakespeare, imbued with a natural piety, was left free to develop his real self religiously without regard to any definite creed.

When this began to sprout with every promise of a full harvest, their joy was boundless; for their stock of breadstuffs and provisions had fallen low during the winter, and could not last later than harvest-time, even with rigid economy.

Among other beliefs in its virtues, the leaves and wood of the ash were regarded throughout Northern Europe as a protection from all manner of snakes, and in harvest-time children were suspended in their cradles from the branches of tall ash trees while their mothers were working in the harvest-field below.

If your harvest-time is past; if your children have grown up and have left the old home, you may be able to help some one who still has little ones to train.

It was harvest-time, and the fields were quietlymight I be allowed to say pensively?enlivened by small companies of reapers.

All the other dwellers on the estate were lying asleep; for it was just before the harvest-time, when peasants have the least to do, and the workmen use every spare minute for sleep, in order to prepare themselves, in a measure, for the approaching days of toil and sweat.

To be sure it does not work all the year round; during planting and harvest-time all thinking ceases.