RUTH AND NA-O-MI.
So they went to the town of Beth-le-hem where Na-o-mi used to live.
It was the days when the grain was ripe in the fields, and the men had gone out to cut it down.
And Na-o-mi had a kins-man in Beth-le-hem, whose name was Bo-az, and he was a rich and great man. And Ruth said to Na-o-mi, Let me now go to the fields and glean the ears of corn.
To glean is to pick up. And poor folks, who had no fields of their own, went to pick up that which was left on the ground for them.
RUTH.
And Na-o-mi told Ruth to go. And she went out and came to the field that was owned by the rich man, Bo-az.