e.

"And nothing risked," continued Mr Hemmenway. "It'll be good for you
and good for me, and it doesn't often happen that both sides get the
best of the bargain. Say yes, and I'll be along by sunrise, and if I
don't make this young man here open his eyes first time round, I shall
be some surprised."

The only difficulty seemed lest there might be too much grass cut to be
properly cared for, since they had not as yet engaged help.

"Don't you fret about that. You'll have the whole neighbourhood here
looking on, and I don't suppose they'll stand still and do it. I'll
risk the making of the hay that'll be cut to-morrow."

The idea of the whole neighbourhood looking on, or even helping to make
hay, was not so agreeable to Mr Fleming as Mr Hemmenway might have
supposed, and Davie hastened to suggest that Ben Holt and two or three
others who had not yet commenced in their own fields might give help for
one day, and so the matter was arranged. Mr Hemmenway lost no time.
The machine was brought to Ythan that night, and when Mr Fleming came
out in the morning operations had long been commenced in Mr Hemmenway's
best style, and Davie was occupying his place on the high seat of the
machine, and driving "the team" steadily round the great square, which
was growing beautifully less at every turn.

Not quite the whole neighbourhood came to look on, but a good many did.
Among the rest was Deacon Scott, who was almost as much averse to
"new-fangled" notions as was Mr Fleming. But he engaged the machine
for the next day, and paid a good price for it--which was all clear
gain, Mr Hemmenway admitted to Davie in confidence. Going about from
field to field for a few days in a neighbourhood was the company's way
of advertising. If it did not pay this year it would next, for half the
farmers in the country would have a machine by another year.

"And I don't say it is any way among the impossibles that we should
conclude to give your little town a lift, by establishing a branch
factory in it. You've got a spry little stream here, and some good
land, and there'll be some handsome fields for the Eureka to operate
upon when the stumps get cleared out. But you are considerably behind
the times in the way of implements. You want to be put up to a dodge or
two, and we are the folks to do it, in the way of machinery," and so on.

Two more days of the Eureka at Ythan laid low the grass in every field,
and within eight days of the ti