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.
Moreover, it was apparent also that the harrows and all the agricultural implements, which he had directed to be looked over and repaired in the winter, for which very purpose he had hired three carpenters, had not been put into repair, and the harrows were being repaired when they ought to have been harrowing the field.