But the sun rose till the stook could shelter him no more.
Just then a damp sheaf from the bottom of a stook went in crosswise, and the automatic governor valve flew open.
Just as Keefer reached the end of his swath we overtook him, and Jack, seizing the sheaf that was still in the binder, tore it from the knotter and flung it to me where I stood beside a stook waiting to receive it.
I therefore had to content myself with smoothing the side of the stook in a business-like way, trusting that the uncertain light would not disclose the insanity of my actions.
When people walk through a field they are most liable to wander along near the edges, or go through near the middle; consequently I chose a stook situated between the two, and about thirty yards distant from the end of the field.
The corn had been cut and stacked in great Cornish arishmows, and Blanche, watching the orange moon swim up, told herself, "When that shadow has reached the nearest stook I will go.
Blanche leant up alongside her stook and Vassie sat watching her, while Judy, who had seen a wistful look on Phoebe's baby face, drew her into such superficial personal talk as she could best compass.
At length, however, he got in under a stookof wheat.
Eva sat on the top of a stook with her mouth open; the lark underneath, doubtless in no better plight.
The arms are thrown around the tops to bring them as closely together as possible, when the tops are broken over or twisted together, or otherwise fastened, in order to make the stook "shed the rain" as well as possible.
The composition of the picture is most artistic; I admire the way the tree has been arranged to just overtop the chimney, and the large corn stook to bring the eye down to the foreground.
School isn't all games, I can tell you," said Keith, pulling a straw from the stook and chewing it meditatively.
Of course I had put on my landworker's clothes to stook in, and to my surprise this caused a great sensation.
I felt quite at home at this job, though one had to stook from a quarter to half a mile before turning, and the sheaves in the stooks were placed in a circle instead of in our English way.
It was quite interesting to watch them dodging for cover from one stook to another, while our men tried to pick them off with their rifles.
As we squatted in the stook together, Weinberger and I discussed the situation seriously, and came to the conclusion that it was by no means reassuring.
I am going behind the corn stook and will pull it away as best I can from where it now stands.
Uncle Philip put on his husking gloves and began his work, taking the ears of corn from the stalks in the stook without disturbing it any more than he could help.
