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Willis I didn't want you here to day	A
The lawyer's coming for the company	B
I'm going to sell my soul or rather feet	C
Five hundred dollars for the pair you know	D
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With you the feet have nearly been the soul	E
And if you're going to sell them to the devil	F
I want to see you do it When's he coming	G
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I half suspect you knew and came on purpose	H
To try to help me drive a better bargain	I
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Well if it's true Yours are no common feet	C
The lawyer don't know what it is he's buying	G
So many miles you might have walked you won't walk	J
You haven't run your forty orchids down	K
What does he think How are the blessed feet	C
The doctor's sure you're going to walk again	L
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He thinks I'll hobble It's both legs and feet	C
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They must be terrible I mean to look at	M
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I haven't dared to look at them uncovered	N
Through the bed blankets I remind myself	O
Of a starfish laid out with rigid points	P
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The wonder is it hadn't been your head	Q
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It's hard to tell you how I managed it	R
When I saw the shaft had me by the coat	S
I didn't try too long to pull away	A
Or fumble for my knife to cut away	A
I just embraced the shaft and rode it out	T
Till Weiss shut off the water in the wheel pit	R
That's how I think I didn't lose my head	Q
But my legs got their knocks against the ceiling	G
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Awful Why didn't they throw off the belt	U
Instead of going clear down in the wheel pit	R
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They say some time was wasted on the belt	U
Old streak of leather doesn't love me much	V
Because I make him spit fire at my knuckles	W
The way Ben Franklin used to make the kite string	G
That must be it Some days he won't stay on	X
That day a woman couldn't coax him off	Y
He's on his rounds now with his tail in his mouth	Z
Snatched right and left across the silver pulleys	A2
Everything goes the same without me there	B2
You can hear the small buzz saws whine the big saw	C2
Caterwaul to the hills around the village	D2
As they both bite the wood It's all our music	E2
One ought as a good villager to like it	R
No doubt it has a sort of prosperous sound	F2
And it's our life	G2
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Yes when it's not our death	H2
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You make that sound as if it wasn't so	D
With everything What we live by we die by	I2
I wonder where my lawyer is His train's in	J2
I want this over with I'm hot and tired	N
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You're getting ready to do something foolish	K2
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Watch for him will you Will You let him in	J2
I'd rather Mrs Corbin didn't know	D
I've boarded here so long she thinks she owns me	B
You're bad enough to manage without her	L2
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And I'm going to be worse instead of better	L2
You've got to tell me how far this is gone	M2
Have you agreed to any price	N2
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Five hundred	O2
Five hundred five five One two three four five	P2
You needn't look at me	B
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I don't believe you	Q2
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I told you Willis when you first came in	J2
Don't you be hard on me I have to take	R2
What I can get You see they have the feet	C
Which gives them the advantage in the trade	S2
I can't get back the feet in any case	T2
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But your flowers man you're selling out your flowers	U2
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Yes that's one way to put it all the flowers	U2
Of every kind everywhere in this region	I
For the next forty summers call it forty	B
But I'm not selling those I'm giving them	V2
They never earned me so much as one cent	W2
Money can't pay me for the loss of them	V2
No the five hundred was the sum they named	X2
To pay the doctor's bill and tide me over	L2
It's that or fight and I don't want to fight	Y2
I just want to get settled in my life	G2
Such as it's going to be and know the worst	Z2
Or best it may not be so bad The firm	A3
Promise me all the shooks I want to nail	B3
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But what about your flora of the valley	B
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You have me there But that you didn't think	C3
That was worth money to me Still I own	D3
It goes against me not to finish it	R
For the friends it might bring me By the way	A
I had a letter from Burroughs did I tell you	Q2
About my Cyprepedium regin	D3
He says it's not reported so far north	E3
There there's the bell He's rung But you go down	D3
And bring him up and don't let Mrs Corbin	D3
Oh well we'll soon be through with it I'm tired	N
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Willis brought up besides the Boston lawyer	L2
A little barefoot girl who in the noise	F3
Of heavy footsteps in the old frame house	G3
And baritone importance of the lawyer	L2
Stood for a while unnoticed with her hands	H3
Shyly behind her	L2
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Well and how is Mister	L2
The lawyer was already in his satchel	B
As if for papers that might bear the name	I3
He hadn't at command You must excuse me	B
I dropped in at the mill and was detained	J3
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Looking round I suppose said Willis	K3
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Yes	L3
Well yes	L3
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Hear anything that might prove useful	B
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The Broken One saw Anne Why here is Anne	D3
What do you want dear Come stand by the bed	Q
Tell me what is it Anne just wagged her dress	L3
With both hands held behind her Guess she said	Q
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Oh guess which hand My my Once on a time	M3
I knew a lovely way to tell for certain	D3
By looking in the ears But I forget it	R
Er let me see I think I'll take the right	Y2
That's sure to be right even if it's wrong	N3
Come hold it out Don't change A Ram's Horn orchid	O2
A Ram's Horn What would I have got I wonder	L2
If I had chosen left Hold out the left	O3
Another Ram's Horn Where did you find those	P3
Under what beech tree on what woodchuck's knoll	B
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Anne looked at the large lawyer at her side	Q3
And thought she wouldn't venture on so much	V
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Were there no others	U2
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There were four or five	P2
I knew you wouldn't let me pick them all	B
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I wouldn't so I wouldn't You're the girl	B
You see Anne has her lesson learned by heart	R3
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I wanted there should be some there next year	S3
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Of course you did You left the rest for seed	T3
And for the backwoods woodchuck You're the girl	B
A Ram's Horn orchid seedpod for a woodchuck	U3
Sounds something like Better than farmer's beans	V3
To a discriminating appetite	Y2
Though the Ram's Horn is seldom to be had	W3
In bushel lots doesn't come on the market	X3
But Anne I'm troubled have you told me all	B
You're hiding something That's as bad as lying	G
You ask this lawyer man And it's not safe	Y3
With a lawyer at hand to find you out	T
Nothing is hidden from some people Anne	D3
You don't tell me that where you found a Ram's Horn	D3
You didn't find a Yellow Lady's Slipper	L2
What did I tell you What I'd blush I would	Z3
Don't you defend yourself If it was there	B2
Where is it now the Yellow Lady's Slipper	L2
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Well wait it's common it's too common	D3
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Common	D3
The Purple Lady's Slipper's commoner	L2
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I didn't bring a Purple Lady's Slipper	L2
To You to you I mean they're both too common	D3
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The lawyer gave a laugh among his papers	U2
As if with some idea that she had scored	A4
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I've broken Anne of gathering bouquets	B4
It's not fair to the child It can't be helped though	D
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape	C4
Somehow I'll make it right with her she'll see	B
She's going to do my scouting in the field	D4
Over stone walls and all along a wood	Z3
And by a river bank for water flowers	U2
The floating Heart with small leaf like a heart	R3
And at the sinus under water a fist	E4
Of little fingers all kept down but one	D3
And that thrust up to blossom in the sun	D3
As if to say 'You You're the Heart's desire '	-
Anne has a way with flowers to take the place	T2
Of that she's lost she goes down on one knee	B
And lifts their faces by the chin to hers	U2
And says their names and leaves them where they are	F4
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The lawyer wore a watch the case of which	G4
Was cunningly devised to make a noise	F3
Like a small pistol when he snapped it shut	X3
At such a time as this He snapped it now	D3
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Well Anne go dearie Our affair will wait	H4
The lawyer man is thinking of his train	D3
He wants to give me lots and lots of money	B
Before he goes because I hurt myself	O
And it may take him I don't know how long	N3
But put our flowers in water first Will help her	L2
The pitcher's too full for her There's no cup	I4
Just hook them on the inside of the pitcher	L2
Now run Get out your documents You see	B
I have to keep on the good side of Anne	D3
I'm a great boy to think of number one	D3
And you can't blame me in the place I'm in	D3
Who will take care of my necessities	A2
Unless I do	Q2
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A pretty interlude	J4
The lawyer said I'm sorry but my train	D3
Luckily terms are all agreed upon	D3
You only have to sign your name Right there	B2
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You Will stop making faces Come round here	K4
Where you can't make them What is it you want	L4
I'll put you out with Anne Be good or go	D
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You don't mean you will sign that thing unread	Q
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Make yourself useful then and read it for me	B
Isn't it something I have seen before	M4
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You'll find it is Let your friend look at it	R
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Yes but all that takes time and I'm as much	V
In haste to get it over with as you	Q2
But read it read it That's right draw the curtain	D3
Half the time I don't know what's troubling me	B
What do you say Will Don't you be a fool	B
You crumpling folkses legal documents	N4
Out with it if you've any real objection	D3
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Five hundred dollars	U2
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What would you think right	Y2
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A thousand wouldn't be a cent too much	V
You know it Mr Lawyer The sin is	O4
Accepting anything before he knows	P3
Whether he's ever going to walk again	D3
It smells to me like a dishonest trick	E2
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I think I think from what I heard to day	A
And saw myself he would be ill advised	P4
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What did you hear for instance Willis said	Q
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Now the place where the accident occurred	N
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The Broken One was twisted in his bed	Q
This is between you two apparently	B
Where I come in is what I want to know	D
You stand up to it like a pair of cocks	Q4
Go outdoors if you want to fight Spare me	B
When you come back I'll have the papers signed	R4
Will pencil do Then please your fountain pen	D3
One of you hold my head up from the pillow	D
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Willis flung off the bed I wash my hands	H3
I'm no match no and don't pretend to be	B
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The lawyer gravely capped his fountain pen	D3
You're doing the wise thing you won't regret it	R
We're very sorry for you	Q2
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Willis sneered	S4
Who's we some stockholders in Boston	D3
I'll go outdoors by gad and won't come back	T4
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Willis bring Anne back with you when you come	U4
Yes Thanks for caring Don't mind Will he's savage	D2
He thinks you ought to pay me for my flowers	U2
You don't know what I mean about the flowers	U2
Don't stop to try to now You'll miss your train	D3
Good bye He flung his arms around his face	T2