1 June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting.
2 Today we begin the hay harvest.
3 And every animal down to the humblest worked at turning the hay and gathering it.
4 Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.
5 It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
6 In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
7 One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside.
8 They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.
9 For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
10 The windmill had been successfully completed at last, and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own, and various new buildings had been added to it.
11 "The donkey who couldn't choose between hay and turnips and so starved," Isabella explained, interposing--anything--between her aunt and her husband, who hated this kind of talk this afternoon.
12 --that was what they were singing, as they scooped and tossed the invisible hay, when she looked round again.
13 There's the hay, let alone the movies.
14 He had brought columbines and campions, and new-mown hay, and oak-tufts and honeysuckle in small bud.
15 It is a farm belonging to Butler and Smitham Colliery Company, they use it for raising hay and oats for the pit-ponies; not a private concern.