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The Code-Heroic
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Robert Frost
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There were three in the meadow by the brook, Gathering up windrows, piling hayc*cks up, With an eye always lifted toward the west, Where an irregular, sun-bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger Flickering across its bosom. Suddenly One helper, thrusting pitchfork in the ground, Marched himself off the field and home. One stayed. The town-bred farmer failed to understand. What was there wrong? Something you mid just now. What did I say? About our taking pains. To c*ck the hay?—because it’s going to shower? I said that nearly half an hour ago. I said it to myself as much as you. You didn’t know. But James is one big fool. He thought you meant to find fault with his work. That’s what the average farmer would have meant. James had to take his time to chew it over Before he acted; he’s just got round to act. He is a fool if that’s the way he takes me. Don’t let it bother you. You’ve found out something. The hand that knows his business won’t be told To do work faster or better—those two things. I’m as particular as anyone: Most likely I’d have served you just the same: But I know you don’t understand our ways. You were just talking what was in your mind, What was in all our minds, and you weren’t hinting. Tell you a story of what happened once. I was up here in Salem, at a man’s Named Sanders, with a gang of four or five, Doing the haying. No one liked the boss. He was one of the kind sports call a spider, All wiry arms and legs that spread out wavy From a humped body nigh as big as a biscuit. But work!—that man could work, especially If by so doing he could get more work Out of his hired help. I’m not denying He was hard on himself: I couldn’t find That he kept any hours—not for himself. Day-light and lantern-light were one to him: I’ve heard him pounding in the barn all night. But what he liked was someone to encourage. Them that he couldn’t lead he’d get behind And drive, the way you can, you know, in mowing— Keep at their heels and threaten to mow their legs off. I’d seen about enough of his bulling tricks— We call that bulling. I’d been watching him.
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