He sent for the carpenter, who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine.
But it appeared that the carpenter was repairing the harrows, which ought to have been repaired before Lent.
This was very annoying to Levin.
It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years.
The hurdles, as he ascertained, being not wanted in winter, had been carried to the cart-horses' stable; and there broken, as they were of light construction, only meant for feeding calves.