IN GALICIA
A Galician pgasant girl frames her bronzed face with a russet-coloured kerclvief. She wears a blouse of blue percale with sleeves of checked gingham, and a gray woollen skirt. The white and Id lie striped apron is crumpled by the shear of yrllow r 'wheat clasped in her smooth brown arms.
In Galicia many -of the men emigrate to find employment, and the women carry on the work of the four seasons. The fields arc small; the farming methods are the methods of the Homeric age. The red earth is turned in shallow furrows with wooden ploughs drawn by biscuitcoloured oxen. The seed is scattered by hand, and the soil is cultivated with w’oodrn harrows. In June the grain ‘is ripe, and the peasant girl goes into the' field with her sickle. The harvester binds low —in the left arm she gathers a cluster of grain stalks; with her sickle in her right hand she cuts a swift stroke near the roots Catching the severed grain in the curve of the sicklcv, she raises it above her head and waves it in a circular'movement; then pivoting on her hips, she lays the sheaf on the ground behind her. In tireless rhythm she moves across the rows of grain. * A boy follow's in the field, tying the sheaves with straws.
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Shannon News, 7 February 1928, Page 4
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221IN GALICIA Shannon News, 7 February 1928, Page 4
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