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XXII. The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers

           JanCoggan,themaster-shearer;thesecondandthirdshearers,whotravelledintheexerciseoftheircalling,anddonotrequiredefinitionbyname;HeneryFraythefourthshearer,SusanTall’shusbandthefifth,JosephPoorgrassthesixth,youngCainBallasassistant-shearer,andGabrielOakasgeneralsupervisor.Noneofthesewereclothedtoanyextentworthmentioning,eachappearingtohavehitinthematterofraimentthedecentmeanbetweenahighandlowcasteHindoo.Anangularityoflineament,andafixityoffacialmachineryingeneral,proclaimedthatseriousworkwastheorderoftheday.

           Theyshearedinthegreatbarn,calledforthenoncetheShearing-barn,whichonground-planresembledachurchwithtransepts.Itnotonlyemulatedtheformoftheneighbouringchurchoftheparish,butviedwithitinantiquity.Whetherthebarnhadeverformedoneofagroupofconventualbuildingsnobodyseemedtobeaware;notraceofsuchsurroundingsremained.Thevastporchesatthesides,loftyenoughtoadmitawaggonladentoitshighestwithcorninthesheaf,werespannedbyheavy-pointedarchesofstone,broadlyandboldlycut,whoseverysimplicitywastheoriginofagrandeurnotapparentinerectionswheremoreornamenthasbeenattempted.Thedusky,filmed,chestnutroof,bracedandtiedinbyhugecollars,curves,anddiagonals,wasfarnoblerindesign,becausemorewealthyinmaterial,thannine-tenthsofthoseinourmodernchurches.

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