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The harvest was early that year, and Miss Oliver decided to cut certain fields of barley at the end of July.
Thrale's energies were then diverted to the superintendence of the reapers and binders, and he rode from field to field, overlooking the work of his pupils or spending furious hours in struggle with some refractory mechanism.