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There were three in the meadow by the brook	A
Gathering up windrows piling haycocks up	B
With an eye always lifted toward the west	C
Where an irregular sun bordered cloud	D
Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger	E
Flickering across its bosom Suddenly	F
One helper thrusting pitchfork in the ground	G
Marched himself off the field and home One stayed	H
The town bred farmer failed to understand	I
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What was there wrong	J
Something you said just now	K
What did I say	L
About our taking pains	M
To cock the hay because it's going to shower	E
I said that nearly half an hour ago	N
I said it to myself as much as you	O
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You didn't know But James is one big fool	P
He thought you meant to find fault with his work	Q
That's what the average farmer would have meant	R
James had to take his time to chew it over	E
Before he acted he's just got round to act	S
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He is a fool if that's the way he takes me	F
Don't let it bother you You've found out something	T
The hand that knows his business won't be told	U
To do work faster or better those two things	V
I'm as particular as anyone	W
Most likely I'd have served you just the same	X
But I know you don't understand our ways	Y
You were just talking what was in your mind	Z
What was in all our minds and you weren't hinting	T
Tell you a story of what happened once	A2
I was up here in Salem at a man's	B2
Named Sanders with a gang of four or five	C2
Doing the haying No one liked the boss	D2
He was one of the kind sports call a spider	E
All wiry arms and legs that spread out wavy	F
From a humped body nigh as big as a biscuit	E2
But work that man could work especially	F
If by so doing he could get more work	Q
Out of his hired help I'm not denying	T
He was hard on himself I couldn't find	Z
That he kept any hours not for himself	F2
Day light and lantern light were one to him	G2
I've heard him pounding in the barn all night	H2
But what he liked was someone to encourage	I2
Them that he couldn't lead he'd get behind	Z
And drive the way you can you know in mowing	T
Keep at their heels and threaten to mow their legs off	J2
I'd seen about enough of his bulling tricks	K2
We call that bulling I'd been watching him	G2
So when he paired off with me in the hayfield	L2
To load the load thinks I look out for trouble	M2
I built the load and topped it off old Sanders	N2
Combed it down with the rake and said 'O K '	-
Everything went right till we reached the barn	O2
With a big take to empty in a bay	L
You understand that meant the easy job	P2
For the man up on top of throwing down	Q2
The hay and rolling it off wholesale	R2
Where on a mow it would have been slow lifting	T
You wouldn't think a fellow 'd need much urging	T
Under those circumstances would you now	K
But the old fool seizes his fork in both hands	S2
And looking up bewhiskered out of the pit	T2
Shouts like an army captain 'Let her come '	-
Thinks I d'ye mean it 'What was that you said '	-
I asked out loud so's there'd be no mistake	U2
'Did you say let her come ' 'Yes let her come '	-
He said it over but he said it softer	E
Never you say a thing like that to a man	V2
Not if he values what he is God I'd as soon	W2
Murdered him as left out his middle name	X
I'd built the load and knew just where to find it	T2
Two or three forkfuls I picked lightly round for	X2
Like meditating and then I just dug in	Y2
And dumped the rackful on him in ten lots	Z2
I looked over the side once in the dust	A3
And caught sight of him treading water like	B3
Keeping his head above 'Damn ye ' I says	C3
'That gets ye ' He squeaked like a squeezed rat	D3
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That was the last I saw or heard of him	G2
I cleaned the rack and drove out to cool off	J2
As I sat mopping the hayseed from my neck	E3
And sort of waiting to be asked about it	T2
One of the boys sings out 'Where's the old man '	-
'I left him in the barn under the hay	L
If you want him you can go and dig him out '	-
They realized from the way I swobbed my neck	E3
More than was needed something must be up	B
They headed for the barn I stayed where I was	F3
They told me afterward First they forked hay	L
A lot of it out into the barn floor	X2
Nothing They listened for him Not a rustle	M2
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I guess they thought I'd spiked him in the temple	M2
Before I buried him else I couldn't have managed	G3
They excavated more 'Go keep his wife	H3
Out of the barn '	-
Some one looked in a window	N
And curse me if he wasn't in the kitchen	W
Slumped way down in a chair with both his feet	I3
Stuck in the oven the hottest day that summer	E
He looked so mad in back and so disgusted	J3
There was no one that dared to stir him up	B
Or let him know that he was being looked at	D3
Apparently I hadn't buried him	G2
I may have knocked him down but just my trying	T
To bury him had hurt his dignity	F
He had gone to the house so's not to face me	F
He kept away from us all afternoon	W2
We tended to his hay We saw him out	K3
After a while picking peas in the garden	W
He couldn't keep away from doing something	T
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Weren't you relieved to find he wasn't dead	L3
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No and yet I can't say it's hard to tell	M3
I went about to kill him fair enough	N3
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You took an awkward way Did he discharge you	O
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Discharge me No He knew I did just right	H2

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