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before the machine sprang to life again
with a whack and a loud-muttered "Damn!"
(The laughter drew in waves from the farms around -
the one sound that would shore up all to come.)
He was hui.klod when he drew out the focals again;
he stood there reading his speech and looking down.
It threw out a rope of hope to the drowtiinq-kind,
but dangerous: he might, have been hanged. One
risk of his bade is that someone ''ght be listening.
-Roy Schelle
(At a county fair)
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and the ringing wo heaid made light of this new pose)
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to him there, with the lurk of the third time.
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