'Heeld' or 'yeeld,' again, is ploughman's language; when the newly sown corn does not 'heeld' or 'yeeld' it requires the harrow.

In the next field, which the mowers had but just cut, the men were 'tedding'-- _i.e._ spreading the swathe with their prongs.

Hilary said that hay was a safe speculation if a man could afford to wait; for every few years it was sure to be extremely dear, so that the old people said, 'Old hay, old gold.' [2] See Notes.
As we returned towards Lucketts' Place, he pointed out to me a distant house upon which he said slates had been first used in that neighbourhood.

Fifty or sixty years since no slates were to be seen there, and when they began to be introduced the old folk manifested great opposition.

They said slate would never last--the moss would eat through it, and so cause holes; and, in fact, some of the slate that was brought up did decay and become useless.