'The Plough'

A young boy and his grandfather taking shelter from rain during ploughing are joined by two other men.

The boy hears the men reminisce about a friend recently deceased and the boy forms a picture of the man that 'affected him profoundly. He sat in a state of wonder. Until suddenly he could bear it no longer. He burst into tears'. The men, gazing at him in 'profound amazement', return to their work and the ploughing resumes.

In The Listener (August 29, 1934), Frontier and Midland (Spring 1935), the Timaru Herald (February 23, 1935, p. 9, with the title 'The Man with the Plough'), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009).