Johannes Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Jug

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screw was turning, but that didn’t matter because something somewhere went ‘clonk’ and everything stopped.
From the crowd at the hedge there were shouts of ‘Get out and milk it!’, ‘We had one but the end fell off!’, ‘Simnel got down again. Distant catcalls drifted towards him as he untied the sheet and replaced it with a new one; he ignored them. Without moving his gaze from the scene in the opposite field, Bill Door pulled a sharpening stone out of his pocket and began to hone his scythe, slowly and deliberately.
Apart from the distant clink of the blacksmith’s tools, the schip-schip of stone on metal was the Tuppence more and up goes the donkey!’ and other time-honoured witticisms.Simnel got down, held a whispered conversation with Peedbury and his men, and then disappeared into the machinery for a moment. ‘It’ll never fly!’‘Veal will be cheap tomorrow!’This time the Combination Harvester got several feet before one of the rotating sheets split and folded up.By now some of the older men at the hedge were doubled up with laughter.‘Any old iron, sixpence a load!’‘Fetch the other one, this one’s broke!’