"They've fired the ricks first!"

Another way was to take a rake, go to a rick and walk round it nine times, saying, "I rake this rick in the devil's name."

DROOGS, steep rocks which dot the surface of Mysore, in India, and resemble hay-ricks, some of these 1500 ft. high, some with springs on the top, and scalable only by steps cut in them.

Rickcloths prevent rain from spoiling the rising rick, mowing machines, haymaking machines, and horse rakes enable a spell of good weather to be taken advantage of, and the hay got in quickly, instead of lying about till the rain returns.

The boat was kept on the other side; so I hallooed to a man engaged in thatching a rick of oats to come and ferry me over.

Darby: I seen no use to be going sweating after farmers, striving to plough or to scatter seed, when I never could come anear Timothy in any sort of a way, and he, by what she was saying, able to thrash out a rick of oats in the day.

"I was thinkin' of goin' to look for himand when I woke up it was black night an' I couldn't find" Suddenly she uttered a shrill scream, and darting forward, stooped over one of the stone supports which had formerly upheld old Peter's beloved rick, eagerly groping in a certain little fissure in the rough stone, almost hidden beneath the horizontal slab which surmounted it.

They appeared to me like two farmers making arrangements to abstain from burning each other's hay-ricks.

"No man sees his house afire but watches his rick," he was saying.