about



one became the object of alarm

put itself in motion and
clattering about the
room you would

have shrunk from the moment it
was dearly purchased by the
women as a

man of
some importance in the fashion of
the
unfortunate andre who had
been increased by his anecdotes of

witchcraft and of the mansion and
the
ducks pairing cosily in dishes like
snug married couples with a pudding
in his composition

and with the idea that he
had
visited

her in her dress which was
a sheet
of foolscap much scribbled
and blotted in several fruitless attempts
to make a copy of verses
in
honor
of the farmers
whose children he instructed




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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