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.....:»=^% 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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...:»=^%#¶ 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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...:»=^%#¶ 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 #¶#%^=»:..
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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 =»:.......
......:»=^ 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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...:»=^%#¶ 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 ^=»:......
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.....:»=^% Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The %^=»:.....
....:»=^%# Energy To Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. #%^=»:....
...:»=^%#¶ It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ¶#%^=»:...
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..:»=^%#¶# 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 #%^=»:....
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