All of us were in the house [_i.e._, the usual hired servants, and those specially engaged for the harvest]: the yearly servants used to go with the monthly ones.
"There were two thrashers, and the head thrasher used always to go before the reapers.

A man could cut according to the goodness of the job, half-an-acre a day.

The terms of wages were _L_3 10_s._ to 50_s._ for the month.
"When the hay was in cock or the wheat in shock, then the Titheman come; you didn't dare take up a field without you let him know.

If the Titheman didn't come at the time, you tithed yourself.

He marked his sheaves with a bough or bush.