Forest says it was an awful business to get everything cleared away.

Father and Gregson had made an uncommonly good job of it.

If Gregson had put in work like that on his own hedges and gates, Forest says he mightn't have been kicked out! It took them ages getting the barbed wire cleared away, because they hadn't any proper nippers.
Father took off his coat, and worked like a navvy, and Forest hoisted him up to get at the wire along the wall.

Forest says he was determined to leave nothing! "And I believe, Miss, the Squire was very glad of the fog--because there couldn't be any one prying around." 'For it seems to be really true that the village has been in a state of ferment, and that they had determined to free the gates and let in the Council plough.

Perley was seen talking to a lot of men on the green last night.