I'll take them for her

'Hay-trussing — ?' said the turnip-hoer, who had already begun shaking his head. 'o no.'" by Robert Barnes. Plate 1, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, which appeared in The Graphic, 2 January 1886. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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