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##£§$††«., The  River  That'S  Our  River  Makes  A ,.«††$§£##
##£§$††«., Large  Bend Like A Scooping  Hand And  A ,.«††$§£##
£§†«.,,,,, Decent  Days  Travel  North  From   That ,,,,,.«†§£
£§$††.,,,, Stands  Our  House In The  Middle  Of  A ,,,,.††$§£
#§†«,,,,,, Forgotten  Apple Orchard.  Our  House Is ,,,,,,«†§#
#§§†«,,,,, Built  Of Dark  Clay And Abandoned By  A ,,,,,«†§§#
###§$††«., Stranger.  The  Window Has  No Glass But ,.«††$§###
##£§$††«., Instead Steel  Bars  To Keep The Animals ,.«††$§£##
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££§§$††«., Around  The  House  Is  A  Thick,  Thick ,.«††$§§££
§††«,,,,,, Brush  Of Ferns And  Bushes. There  Live ,,,,,,«††§
£$††«.,,,, The Animals That We Fight To Keep  Away, ,,,,.«††$£
£§†††.,,,, For  They  Speak To Us  To Join  Them In ,,,,.†††§£
£$†««,,,,, The  Luscious  Caves  Below Ground. They ,,,,,««†$£
£§$†††«,,, Mean No Harm But It  Is Not  In Our Best ,,,«†††$§£
#§§$$††«., Interest To  Do  So. There  Is Important ,.«††$$§§#
#££§$††«., Work That Needs To  Be Done, And It Cant ,.«††$§££#
§§§§$††«., Be  Done By Animals. (Father Says This.) ,.«††$§§§§
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##£§$††«., Every  Morning  Our  Father  Clears  The ,.«††$§£##
§§†«««.,,, Ferns  And Uproots  The Bushes Only  For ,,,.«««†§§
##£§$††«., Them  To  Grow  Back  Each  Night. Their ,.«††$§£##
£$†..,,,,, Leaves  Are Teal, White And Yellow, Some ,,,,,..†$£
§$†.,,,,,, Even The Color  Of Wine. They Have Lilac ,,,,,,.†$§
#§†«,,,,,, Flowers  And In The Morning They Are Wet ,,,,,,«†§#
##£§$††«.,                 With Dew.                ,.«††$§£##
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##£§$††«., Father  Is  Away  During  The  Day Doing ,.«††$§£##
§†††..,,,, Important Things  Elsewhere. He Is Weary ,,,,..†††§
##£§$††«., When He Returns Home, Each  Day  More So ,.«††$§£##
##£§$††«., Than The Next. We Learn  To Cook For Him ,.«††$§£##
£§$$†...., So That  He Does Not Have To. We Tend To ,....†$$§£
££§§$††«.,               His Clothes.               ,.«††$§§££
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£§$†††«.., Suddenly The  Dense Bushwork Is Mirrored ,..«†††$§£
##£§$††«., Inside.  Stems And  Leaves Appear  Close ,.«††$§£##
§††††«««., To The Walls And Far From The  Light. We ,.«««††††§
£§§$$††«., Are Glad, For The Flowers Are  Beautiful ,.«††$$§§£
##£§$††«., And  Smell  Good,  And There  Is  Little ,.«††$§£##
#§$††††«., Decoration  In   Our   House.  But  When ,.«††††$§#
###£§††«., Father  Comes Home  He Is Angry And Cuts ,.«††§£###
##£§$††«., Them  All  Down  In  A  Frenzy.  We  Are ,.«††$§£##
##£§$††«.,           Scared Of Him Then.            ,.«††$§£##
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££§†«.,,,, We Are  Then  Tasked  With Removing  Any ,,,,.«†§££
##£§$††«., Indoor  Plant  We See. But  They  Are So ,.«††$§£##
££§§$††«., Beautiful!  We  Wait Just  Until  Father ,.«††$§§££
£$$††.,,,, Comes  Home  And  Until  Then  We  Enjoy ,,,,.††$$£
£$†††«.,,, Them. Sometimes  An Animal Will Sneak In ,,,.«†††$£
##£§$††«., But We Always Shoo  Them Out. With Fresh ,.«††$§£##
§§§§$††«., Cut  Flowers  Thrown  Right  Outside The ,.«††$§§§§
##£§$††«., House  He   Suspects   And  Resents  Our ,.«††$§£##
£$†††«,,,, Inaction.  But  He  Doesn'T   Have   The ,,,,«†††$£
#£$$$††«., Energy To  Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. ,.«††$$$£#
##£§$††«., It Is Not Long Before He Is Still  Tired ,.«††$§£##
§†††.,,,,, Even   In   The    Morning   And    Must ,,,,,.†††§
##£§$††«.,    Reluctantly Leave The Outdoor Weed    ,.«††$§£##
§§§$†««,,, Cutting To Us As  Well, Untrusting  That ,,,««†$§§§
##£§$††«.,           We Will Carry It Out.          ,.«††$§£##
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##£§$††«., Now  He Leaves As Soon As He'S Awake And ,.«††$§£##
§§†«,,,,,, Falls Asleep As  Soon As He Returns.  We ,,,,,,«†§§
##£§$††«., Are  Left To Care For Us And  The  House ,.«††$§£##
###§$††«., And The Orchard.  But It Is  Hard And We ,.«††$§###
##£§$††«., Are   Distracted.   We   Are    Not   As ,.«††$§£##
§§$†««,,,, Persistent  As  Father And  Quickly Fall ,,,,««†$§§
##£§$††«.,          Behind In Our Duties.           ,.«††$§£##
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