"Haying time" Quotes from Famous Books
... weather was sufficiently mild, it was used as a "nooning" tree by all the men at work in the surrounding fields; but it was in haying time that it became the favorite lunching and "bangeing" place for Squire Bean's hands and those of Miss Vilda Cummins, who owned the adjoining farm. The men congregated under the spreading branches at twelve o' the clock, and spent the noon hour there, eating and "swapping" ... — The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin |