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§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ Decent Days Travel North From That §¨¨§¨§¨§¨¨
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ Instead Steel Bars To Keep The Animals §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ Brush Of Ferns And Bushes. There Live §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ For They Speak To Us To Join Them In §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ 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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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ Flowers And In The Morning They Are Wet §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ 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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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ To The Walls And Far From The Light. We §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ Are Glad, For The Flowers Are Beautiful §¨¨§¨§¨§¨¨
§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ And Smell Good, And There Is Little §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ Father Comes Home He Is Angry And Cuts §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ Scared Of Him Then. §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
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§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ Comes Home And Until Then We Enjoy §¨¨§¨§¨§¨¨
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§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh §¨¨§¨§¨§¨¨
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§¨§¨§¨§§¨§ It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired §¨§§¨§¨§¨§
§¨§¨§¨¨§¨§ Even In The Morning And Must §¨¨§¨§¨§¨¨
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