She heard the whir of the threshers.

Kurt, mounted on the seat of one of the combine threshers, surveyed with rapid and anxious gaze all the points around him, and it lingered over the magnificent sweep of golden wheat.

He saw more and more farmers arrive, in cars, in wagons, with engines and threshers, until the lane was lined with them and men were hurrying everywhere.

Olsen was rushing thirty combine threshers, three engine threshing-machines, forty wagon-teams, and over a hundred men well known to him.

The late afternoon found him feeding sheaves of wheat to one of the steam-threshers.

"I've heard of threshers catchin' fire," said Anderson, as if dumfounded, "but I never seen one....

" Out in the wheat-fields were engines with steam already up, with combines and threshers and wagons waiting for the word to start.

As Beauchene continued talking too much, owning for instance that he did not know how far the thresher might be from completion, Mathieu noticed Constance listening anxiously.

"The threshers are coming," they said, "and we must make plenty of things for them to eat.

So they made pies and cakes and bread until their cupboards were full; and surely enough the threshers did come with the threshing-machine, which was painted red, and went "Puff!

Well, rather than he shall have no employment but lick dishes, I will set him a work myself, to write in praise of the art of stooping, and how there never was any famous thresher, porter, brewer, pioneer, or carpenter that had straight back.

For rats and mice purloin our grain, And threshers whirl the flail in vain: Thus shall the cat, a foe to spoil, Protect the farmer's honest toil,' 90 Then, turning to the dog, he cried, 'Well, sir; be next your merits tried.' 'Sir,' says the dog, 'by self-applause We seem to own a friendless cause.

Tribulatio ditut: and which Camerarius hath well shadowed in an emblem of a thresher and corn, "Si tritura absit paleis sunt abdita

Their weapons, swords, and spears flew about in the air, crossing and recrossing continually in all directions, like the flails of threshers in an immense barn; and the rage of each of these fiends seemed exclusively directed against Jesusthat grain of heavenly wheat descended to the earth to die there, in order to feed men eternally with the Bread of Life.

A dance of the reapers and gleaners followed, the threshers flourished their flails, and the whole went their way.

From time to time, fresh material was supplied to meet the needs of the threshers.

" In the winter the horn blew at about four in the morning, and all the threshers were required to be at the threshing floor in fifteen minutes after.

" In the winter the horn blew at about four in the morning, and all the threshers were required to be at the threshing floor in fifteen minutes after.

A little beyond the village I passed a party of threshers, men and womentwo rows of them facing each other like dancers; the figures bending and straightening in unison, and

He long continued to have his crops threshed by hand, saying that if it were done by machines his darkies would have no winter work; but when eventually he instituted mechanical threshers, no one could discern an increase of leisure.

Wes had taken the coffeepot and gone down to the valley to see when the threshers would be able to come.

This mill was operated by two men and was capable of threshing about two bushels of wheat per hourpretty slow work as compared with that of a modern thresher.

Thus, from Quebec to Calgary a note of drivenot hustle, but drive and finish-uphummed like the steam-threshers on the still, autumn air.

"Every year we use more of your American machinery; your plows, and threshers, and mowing-machines, and all agricultural implements are coming into use here.

The twenty acres covered by Agricultural Hall contains everything relating to the soil and its cultivation, everything that Mother Earth gives to man, all the tools, implements of every kind used in agriculture, ploughs, reapers, mowers, threshers, etc., run by horse-power, steam or electricity.