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Show H LONQINO FOR BOYHOOD DAYS. H Poet Remembers Compensation for H Hard Work He Had to Do. H I Uiloh I'd slop Hi pig lb way 1 H useil to do, and bring In wood and j hunt for egg and bring thn ro H txirae loo; and cms tint wigon and M hitch up the horse every day, and B water all the rows and calve and give H the horses hay, and pump wash water H and atay In an' churn, and churn, H while other boya down by the creek H were having fun In burn. I'd like to H salt tho sheep. I would, I'd like to H milk tho cowa. I'd like to man n crow- H cut asw and have a wild ranmse, vtllli H dad tho othr end of It to I'll 1 1 me j throuch the luc I'd love to rurry oil H tho team and feed the rat and ilox H And whrn I'd got the choree all done j snd had t through the nvMi, I'd tore j to tahn n brush hook and go out anil H cut eomo bmsb I'd do these things B sgaln, I would, and never heate a H sigh, for 'long about this time ' year Hj I'd get my full of pie- good home made H mince ami pumpkin pie. and hen's H rgga neily laid, salt rlsln' bread and j blsculU like the kind my mother j made, and good backlioce and sire- H ribs, too. aud rornbread apread with j groaae theae tblnga to have again H would bring my spirit lasting peace H And so I'd like In atop the plga and j feed the crltlvra, ton, and churn, and K cburn, and churn and churn, Just like j I used to do 1 Illusion Tost. |