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He thought this, and at the same time looked at his watch to

reckon how much they thrashed in an hour He wanted to know this

so as to judge by it the task to set for the day

"It'll soon be one, and they're only beginning the third sheaf,"

thought Levin He went up to theover the roar of the machine he told him to

put it in more slowly "You put in too ets choked, that's why it isn't getting on Do

it evenly"

Fyodor, black with the dust that clung to hisin response, but still went on doing it as Levin did

not want hi up to thethe corn in hi on till the peasants'

dinner hour, which was not long in co, he went out of the

barn with Fyodor and fell into talk with hi beside a

neat yellow sheaf of rye laid on the thrashing floor for seed

Fyodor cae at some distance from the one in which

Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association Now

it had been let to a former house porter

Levin talked to Fyodor about this land and asked whether Platon,