1. Study

What time of day does the picture show? What season is it? What grows in the field?

What have the women been doing? How has the harvesting been done? What things show this?

What are the two women at the left doing? What are those at the right carrying?

What has the girl in the foreground in her left hand? Why does she have the jug? What is she doing with her sickle? Does any one notice her signal? What does she mean?

What is the woman looking at who holds the bag?

What do the women wear on their heads? What kind of shoes have they?

Do you think they have enjoyed the day's work?

How do the workers feel because the end of the day is near? How has the painter shown it?

End of Labor. Jules Briton..

2. Composition

1. Write a good description of this picture. Tell who the workers are, what they are doing, how they care for the crop, how they feel about leaving the field.

2. Tell as many ways as you can in which this method of harvesting differs from ours. Tell also how the farms in France must differ from ours.

3. Describe a day during the harvest or threshing season on some farm in your neighborhood. Tell about the work of both men and women.