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Updated: June 9, 2025
After emptying and refilling every bin and box, after cleaning every set of harness which had or had not been used for years, brushing the few cobwebs from the rafters, sweeping the floors over and over, he repaired to the hay-mow and industriously forked over the whole mass. While he was engaged in this operation Susanna visited the barn and asked if he had gone crazy.
She forgot that she had also run round what she took for a hay-mow, a peat-stack, and several other things which looked of no consequence in the moonlight. "So, then," she cried, "the old woman IS a cheat! I believe she's an ogress, after all, and lives in a palace though she pretends it's only a cottage, to keep people from suspecting that she eats good little children like me!"
Suppose the murderer should be hiding there! Mr. Shrimplin's mind fastened on the hay-mow as the most likely place of concealment, and the cold sweat ran from him in icy streams; he could, almost see the murderer's evil eyes fixed upon him from the blackness above.
Oh, please go on! there's always dragons in 'chanted castles, you know, to guard the lovely Princess, aren't you going to have any dragons that hiss, you know, an' spit out smoke, an' flames? Oh! do please have a dragon." And Small Porges appeared from the other side of the hay-mow, flushed, and eager.
The Hay-Mow Graduate with a limited Income, who counts up every Night and sets aside so much for Wheat Cakes, can hold them closer to his Bosom and play them tighter than any Shark that ever floated down the Mississippi. The newcomer who tried to be Liberal usually went home in his Stocking Feet.
Card-playing was considered a vice in those days, and limited to a few games of "seven-up," played by sinful boys on a hay-mow, and dancing was frowned upon by the churches. On the outskirts of the town a few of the younger people occasionally indulged in the crime of taking steps to music as a change from the pious freedom of kissing parties.
He would have gone up to the Unicorn for a little stronger refreshment, but did not dare to venture out of sight of the house. Miss Ann was the perfect image of Patience in a hay-mow, smiling at his anxiety. The motion of her needles never ceased, except when she counted the stitches in narrowing. Towards sunset, Mr. Stacy made his appearance at the barn-door, but his face was a sealed book.
Uncle Jack stops on his way, going up to get the oxen, and passes the night, says, "Other people can't find enough to do; for his part, he should like to lie down in the hay-mow and rest, all worn out, used up. Now Josiah, good, conversable man, knows about geography and the country round.
Now don't blab on me, or the boss would nearly kill me." "Is that man your father?" began Keith, but Jonesy, alarmed by some sudden noise, sprang to the door, and disappeared in the twilight. The boys looked at each other a moment, with surprise and indignation in their faces. There was a hurried consultation in the hay-mow.
"I can't move unless the others do; they 're crowding me down!" said Cadaw-Cut; and he kicked the egg next above him. And so they continued kicking one another and rolling around in the nest until one kicked Humpty Dumpty, and as he lay on the edge of the nest he was kicked out and rolled down the hay-mow until he came to a stop near the very bottom.
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