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As the men cut the wheat, Mrs. Robertson
and Meg followed behind tying the stalks
of grain into bundles called sheaves. Ten
sheaves propped up against one another
formed a stook.
32 Wheat was a precious crop, and the
family worked long into the night to get it
safely under cover. Mr. Robertson and the
hired help packed it carefully into mows
(storage lofts) in the barn to keep it safe
and dry until they had time to thresh it.
33 Harvesting wasn’t all hard work.
Sometimes neighbors helped one another
bring in the crops. This harvesting bee
often finished with a party. The men set up
31 The hay would feed the animals through long tables in the fields, and the women
the winter, but the people needed wheat. brought out food for a harvest supper. To
In fact the wheat harvested one year had amuse the children, Mr. Burkholder built a
to last until the next. By the first week of maze out of sheaves of grain.
August, the wheat was ready to be cut. The
men were out in the fields with their
scythes again, and Willy and Sarah were thresh To thresh a plant is to beat it in order to
running back and forth with water. separate its grain or seeds from the rest of the plant.
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