SIGNS OF A STORM One evening early in February, the farmer told Jonas that his work, the next day, would be to get out four or five bushels of corn and grain, and go to mill.

Accordingly, after he had got through with his morning's work of taking care of the stock, he took a half-bushel measure, and several bags, and went into the granary.

The granary was a small, square building, with narrow boards and wide cracks between them on the south side.

The building itself was mounted on posts at the four corners, with flat stones upon the top of the posts, for the corners to rest upon.
The open work upon the side was to let the air in, to dry the corn; and the high posts and the flat stones were to keep the mice from getting in and eating it up.
Jonas put a short board across the top of the half-bushel, and sat upon it.

Then he began taking the corn and shelling it off from the cob, by rubbing it against the edge of the board.