Axel was in the midst of his haymaking, and had to do his mowing by day and haymaking by night, and all by himselfand then came Barbro!

I shall not here attempt to chronicle all the events of the afternoon, how we finished the mowing of the field and how we went over it swiftly and raked the long windrows into cocks, or how, as the evening began to fall, we turned at last wearily toward the house.