Although the promise made to George on the haymow was faithfully kept, he could no more avoid getting into mischief than a weathercock can keep from turning when the wind blows.
He had had no desire to give up his unlettered liberty until that day on the haymow when he had his awakening.
I've had my chickens stolen, my hogs poisoned, and my haymow out in the pasture burned twice by some of that worthless lot.
No sooner had they gained their feet than they started out of the barn, for the haymow was under the shelter of a roof.
Her literary labors had been somewhat interrupted by the joys and responsibilities of vice-motherhood, and the thought book was less frequently drawn from its hiding place under the old haymow in the barn chamber.
After I do three pages I am going to hide away this book in the haymow till spring.
I will put my book into my trunk (having no blessedhaymow hereabouts) and take it out again,--when shall I take it out again?
I will hide you in the haymow where you'll be warm and cosy all the long winter and where nobody can find you again in the summer time but your affectionate author, Rebecca Rowena Randall.
They ran unseen to the barn and climbed to the haymow where they ate the cookies.
Into the barn they went and up into the haymow where they were usually safe, but as they lay panting on the hay, Uncle Jonah entered the barn, grumbling to himself.
I could barely make out a group of men shoving a mass of something over the edge, and then I beheld the curious sight of a haymow flying through the air.
I had slept in the same haymow from which I had been awakened the previous morning.
Thoroughly tired out with my hard day's ride in the sun, while hunting Buford all over that part of the country, I lay down in the haymow of the stable, and was soon sound asleep, and wholly oblivious to all surroundings.
You know I ain't took a girl into a haymowfor twenty years.
When the fire reached the haymow there was a flare and flash almost like an explosion as the dust and loose hay ignited.
Then came a golden October afternoon when the twins sat in the haymow looking out upon a mellow world.
If she present herself at the Parsonage Haymow this evening, at eight o'clock, she shall learn the will of the Society regarding her petition.
Then the twins, in no way deceived, went back to the haymow again.
Up the haymow ladder they hurried, and then slid recklessly down the hay-chutes.
Finally she stepped into the blackness of the barn, found the ladder leading to the haymow and began slowly climbing.
As she neared the barn, she was startled to hear from the haymow over her head, deep groans as of a soul in mortal agony.
And the twins betook themselves to the haymowin thoughtful mood.
He had waited only a few minutes in the haymow after Job had gone to the farm-house before the temptation to be off again toward home mastered him.
The man upon whose sleeping form Job had stepped in the haymow sat up and looked about him in a half-puzzled fashion, mechanically brushing the loose particles from his hair and neck.
We rested well that night in our haymow bed, although the rats kept the dog busy till morning, so Barley said; he was the only one of us three who failed to sleep soundly.
But the summer passed and old Brian came and took his comrade away, and Scotty wept secretly in the haymow all the evening after her departure.
He crept off into a corner of the haymow as soon as Jimmie had left him, and lay there, his curly head hidden deep in the hay, his small body shaken with long convulsive sobs.
An unusual enterprise in Langdon is theHaymow Theater, a children's organization which has presented plays annually for more than a quarter of a century.
Tom Cameron, for the frightened Bella leaped like a cat upon the haymow door and swung outward with nothing more stable than air between her and the ground, more than thirty feet below!
Pretty soon I was up in our haymow all by myself carrying the egg basket around to the different places where different ones of our old hens laid their eggs.
Pop yelled back down to me, "and I've looked all over the haymow for it.
Then I went lickety-sizzle up the ladder to the haymow and sure enough Pop was right!
You will find the key hanging inside the storm-door, and the cistern-pole up stairs in the haymow of the barn.
What happened when we got into the haymow I do not now recall, only that Kosciusko and I frolicked around there in the hay for some time.
Strong man as I am, I am not too proud to say that I soaked that haymow through with unavailing tears.
I buried my face in the haymow and I am not ashamed to say that I wept.
Archie slid down thehaymow toward the floor of the barn.
The haymow was a big place in the barn where the dried grass (which is what hay is, you know) was stored away.
X THE BIG, WHITE EGG When Henrietta Hen's callers crowded about her nest in the haymow they expected to see something wonderful.
And the next morning, to her great surprise, when Johnnie Green climbed into the haymow and found her nest he took the small brown egg and put it in his hat.
I'll go and hide 'way up high in the haymow where they can't find me before I'll spend another week in a place like this.
In the darkness of the haymow the Meadow-Brook Girls were now floundering about in great alarm.
Rather to the amazement of her companions, Grace made the climb to the haymow without the least difficulty.
How often we paused in our work to munch apples that had been mellowing in the haymowby our side, and look out through the big doorway upon the sunlit meadows and hill-slopes!
One would have thought that in a haymow she had nesting material near at hand.
But no; her nest-building instincts had to take the old rut; she must bring her own material from without; the haymowwas only the mossy bank or the wood-side turf where her species had hidden their nests for untold generations.
One night the wind blew the easel with its canvas over against the haymow where the nest was placed, but the bird was there on her eggs in the morning.
