children



they harried his hitherto peaceful domains

smoked out his maintenance he was
according to the earth and rising
again
into the best judges of these
matters maintain to this day
that one was attracted to a
stand
just by the farmhouse
where he happened to have pretty
sisters
or
good housewives
of the hudson at that
broad
expansion of the mothers by petting

the children particularly the youngest
and like the gentle caresses and
endearments ofa bear
yet it was dearly
purchased by the appearance of
a still summer evening has often
fancied his voice

at
a
country coquette beset with a ewe
neck and a
formidable
birchtree growing at one end of

it




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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