Labels:text | screenshot | font | yellow | number OCR: 15 "Sounds like bollocks, I'll tell 'em!" Alec sniggered. The process of manufacturing shapes in wheat was simple, for men who'd spent the greater part of their lives working on farms. All that was required by way of equipment was a narrow iron spike, a silenced hammer, two pairs of collapsible reinforced trellis-work boot soles, and a pair of sturdy wooden shafts, each six feet long and thick as a woman's wrist. The lattice soles when strapped to walking boots distributed weight, like crude snowshoes, enabling the wearer to walk on flattened wheat without crushing it. The two poles when joined together formed a rigid arm, which had a hole bored for an anchor spike in one end, and a wide comb- like tip bolted to the other. The fake-rake, as the men called it, had been knocked-together by A ...
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