Then he locked the granary, and put the key away, and afterwards went to the barn, and opened the great doors, which led in to the barn floor.

He climbed up a tall ladder to a loft under the roof of the barn, and threw down some sheaves of wheat,--as many as he thought would be necessary to produce the quantity of grain which the farmer had ordered.

He then descended the ladder, and got a flail, and began to thresh them out.
Standing, now, in a new position, he had a different prospect before him.

Beyond the barn-yard he could see another larger yard nearer the house, in which the snow had also been beaten down by the going and coming of teams, sleds, and all sorts of travel, for two or three weeks, during which there had been no new falls of snow.

Upon one side of this yard was an enormous heap of wood, which Jonas and Oliver had been hauling nearly all the winter.