they are stirred strangely by the peasant memories
of their forbears who lived before cities were.
And in incomprehensible ways they are made glad
by the earth smells and sights and sounds which
their blood has not forgotten though unremem-
bered by them.

[{IN THE HOP FIELDS. The tally-keeper checking the amount picked.}]

"No more ops, matey," Bert complained.

It was five o clock, and the pole-pullers had
knocked off, so that everything could be cleaned
up, there being no work on Sunday. For an hour
we were forced idly to wait the coming of the
measurers, our feet tingling with the frost which

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