They cut it with long sharp scythes, or with reaping machines.
A great noise and clamour arose in all the streets, the townsmen came armed with spears, hay-forks, scythes, and axes, as if they were going out against an enemy; finally, the senators appeared with the burgomaster at their head.
But it did not look as if he would, for laborers met him everywhere, and they had scythes upon their shoulders as well as he.
But it did not look as if he would, for laborers met him everywhere, and they had scythes upon their shoulders as well as he.
And days and weeks passed, the bright scythes of the reapers glittered in the corn-fields, the branches of the apple-trees bent low, heavy with the red and golden fruit.
