Volume 5 — THE NOONING.
Reading edition
Mr. Darley's very characteristic picture on the opposite page needs no description, it so thoroughly explains itself, and realizes his intention. The following lines from Mary Howitt seem very appropriate to the sketch:
"O golden fields of bending corn, How beautiful they seem! The reaper-folk, the piled up sheaves, To me are like a dream; The sunshine and the very air Seem of old time, and take me there."