Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 449
ll or no ; bowed, He follows as a farm-boy should, but he follows But soon, despondent, he stops short before a very slow. weedy crowd. His master leads him to the field and shows I think, he says, (I am so tired!)—it must him all his task, be nigh to noon; And leaves him when in sunbeams the earth… … TRAPPER JOE. 921 There is no sound, the breezes die, he soon Roused by the clanging bell of noon, he wakes falls fast asleep ; with startled moan; The weeds do not stop growing—thus will our I wonder how it is, he says, so many labors keep. weeds were sown ! He wears a smile, for in his dream he…
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