“‘However,’ I continued, ‘after this comes reaping, I fancy. So give me any information you can with regard to that too.’“‘Yes—unless I find that you know just what I do about that subject too. You know, then, that the corn must be cut.’“‘I know that, naturally.’“‘Are you for standing with your back to the wind when you cut corn, or facing it?’“‘Not facing it, no! I think it is irritating both to the eyes and to the hands to reap with cornstalks and spikes blowing in your face.’
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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