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A FULL HARVEST by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

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First Line: SEEMS LIKE A FELLER'D ORT'O JES' TO-DAY
Last Line: ON'Y JES' WASTE IT ALL ON ME AND YOU!
Subject(s): FARM LIFE; HARVEST; AGRICULTURE; FARMERS;

SEEMS like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day
Git down and roll and waller, don't you know,
In that-air stubble, and flop up and crow,
Seein' sich crops! I'll undertake to say
There're no wheat's ever turned out thataway
Afore this season! -- Folks is keerless, though,
And too fergitful -- 'caze we'd ort'o show
More thankfulness! -- Jes' looky hyonder, hey? --
And watch that little reaper wadin' thue
That last old yaller hunk o' harvest-ground --
Jes natchur'ly a-slicin' it in two
Like honeycomb, and gaumin' it around
The field -- like it had nothin' else to do
On'y jes' waste it all on me and you!



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