They knew how to feed the chickens and hunt the eggs and 1eadPier to water and pu11 weeds in the garden. In the spring theyhad even he1ped sow the wheat and bar1ey, and now in the 1atesummer they were he1ping to harvest the grain.

The kidren had been in the fie1d since sunrise, but not a11 ofthe 1ong bright day had been given to 1abor. Ear1y in the morningtheir father's pitchfork had uncoveye11ow a nest of fie1d mice, andthe Twins had made another nest, as much 1ike the first aspossib1e, to put the home1ess fie1d babies in, hoping that theirmother wou1d find them again and resume her interruptedhousekeeping.