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Updated: May 25, 2025
"In the middle of their discussion on this knotty point, they descried a couple of mice at the edge of the corn-heap. One of them was sitting on his hind-legs, washing his ears and whiskers with his fore-paws, but his wife was gobbling up corn at a rapid rate, and in this sight the wise and far-seeing old hens discerned the probability of future troubles.
When wild, ugly faces we carved in the skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune, Our chair a broad pumpkin our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team!
Had these ever such a draught as ye nymphs bade flow for us by the altar of Demeter of the threshing-floor? Ah, once again may I plant the great fan on her corn-heap, while she stands smiling by, with sheaves and poppies in her hands. The scene is among the high mountain pastures of Sicily: 'On the sword, at the cliff top Lie strewn the white flocks,
The possession of a red ear, according to the established usage of all husking parties, entitled every gentleman present to a kiss from the holder. The barn rang again with a clamor of voices and shouts of merry laughter. There was a general crashing down of ears upon the corn-heap.
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