But they wouldn't mind doing their bit in other ways, they said.

So John he upped and said--would they coom and help him with his second crop o' hay--you know we've lost nearly all our men, Mrs.Sarratt--and they said they would--and that very evening he brought 'em along.

And who do you think they are ?' Nelly could not guess; and Mrs.Grayson explained that the two young men were the wealthy sons of a wealthy Liverpool tradesman and were starting a branch of their father's business in Kendal.

They had each of them a motor, and apparently unlimited money.

They had just begun to be useful in the hay-making--'But they wouldn't _touch_ the stock--they wouldn't kill anything--not a rat! They wouldn't even shoo the birds from the oats! And last night one of them was took ill--and I must go and sit up with him, while his brother fetched the big car from Kendal to take him home.