. Country life reader . e the blue-jays,Heard them singing hke the robins. And wheneer some lucky maidenFound a red ear in the husking,Found a maize-ear red as blood is,^Nushka! cried they all together,^Nushka! you shall have a sweetheart,You shall have a handsome husband !Ugh! the old men all respondedFrom their seats beneath the pine trees. And wheneer a youth or maidenFound a crooked ear in husking,Found a maize-ear in the huskingBlighted, mildewed, or misshapen,Then they laughed and sang and hmped about the in their gait and gesturesSome old man, bent alm
. Country life reader . e the blue-jays,Heard them singing hke the robins. And wheneer some lucky maidenFound a red ear in the husking,Found a maize-ear red as blood is,^Nushka! cried they all together,^Nushka! you shall have a sweetheart,You shall have a handsome husband !Ugh! the old men all respondedFrom their seats beneath the pine trees. And wheneer a youth or maidenFound a crooked ear in husking,Found a maize-ear in the huskingBlighted, mildewed, or misshapen,Then they laughed and sang and hmped about the in their gait and gesturesSome old man, bent almost singly or together:Wagemin, the thief of cornfields!Paimosaid, who steals the maize-ear!Till the cornfields rang with from Hiawathas wigwamKahgahgee, the king of and quivered in his from all the neighboring tree topsCawed and croaked the black ! the old men all their seats beneath the pine trees! Henry Wads worth Longpellow (adapted).. After the corn has been cut. THE SPRING VALLEY CORN CLUB The Spring Valley Corn Club now consists of more thantwenty boys and girls. But when it was first formedthere were only four boys in it. It happened one Oc-tober evening when we four^Harry Parker, Jim Collins,George Brown, and myself—were over at Parkers,that we got to talking about the growing of corn andarguing as to why Mr. Parkers corn crop that year was afailure. Sam Parker, Harrys older brother, it seems,didnt like our talk, and he remarked—rather sarcastically,I thought: Humph! A lot you know about corn. Better try ityourselves, if you think you can do it any better. That remark of Sams—though it doesnt appear in theminutes of the club—was really the thing that gave usthe first thought of forming a corn club. Before we left 30 THE SPRING VALLEY CORN CLUB 31 for home that night we had gone so far as to agree to askour fathers for an acre of ground each, in which to growcorn, and we had agree
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