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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sawin' Wood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wondered wot was doin'. First I seen<br>Ole Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen.<br>I'm in the paddick slashin' down some ferns;<br>She's comin' up the road; an' if she turns<br>An 'andspring I won't be su'prised a bit,<br>The way she's caperin', an' goin' it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She yells out some remark when she gets near,<br>Which I don't catch, I'm too fur off to 'ear.<br>An' then Doreen comes prancin' to our door,<br>An' Missus Flood she sprints, an' yells some more;<br>My wife runs to the gate an' waves 'er arms...<br>But I lays low; I'm used to these alarms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A married bloke, in time, 'e learns a bit;<br>An' 'e ain't over keen to throw a fit<br>Each time the women calls the fire-reel out.<br>It's jist a trifle 'e'll know all about<br>When things get normal. That's a point I learn;<br>So I saws wood, an' keeps on cutting fern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least, I cut a few. I got to give<br>Reel fac's, an' own I was inquisitive;<br>An' these 'ere fireworks gets me fair perplexed.<br>I watch the 'ouse to see wot 'appens next;<br>But nothin's doin'. They jist goes in,<br>An' leaves me wonderin' wot's caused the din.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stands it for a full 'arf-hour or more;<br>Then gets dead sick uv starin' at the door.<br>I goes down to the 'ouse an' 'unts about<br>To find some 'baccer, which I 'ave no doubt<br>Is in me trousers pocket all the while.<br>When I goes in, the talk stops, an' they smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sez I've lost me smoke, an' search a bit,<br>An' ask Doreen wot 'as become uv it,<br>An' turns the mantelshelf all upside-down,<br>An' looks inside the teapot, with a frown;<br>Then gives it up, an' owns I'd like a drink;<br>When Missus Flood sez, 'Bill, wot do you think?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, ain't that like a woman? Spare me days,<br>I'll never get resigned to all their ways.<br>When they 'as news to tell they smile, an' wink,<br>An' bottle it, an' ask yeh wot yeh think.<br>It's jist a silly game uv theirs, an' so,<br>I gives the countersign: 'Wot? I dunno.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Then guess,' she sez. Well, I'm a patient bloke,<br>So I sits down an' starts to cut a smoke.<br>(To play this game yeh've got to persevere.)<br>'Couldn't,' I sez, 'if I guessed for a year';<br>Then lights me pipe, an' waits for 'er to speak.<br>At last she says, 'Jim's comin' back next week!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Go on,' sez I; an' puffs away awhile<br>Quite unconcerned. But for to see 'er smile<br>Was jist a treat: 'er eyes was shinin' bright,<br>An' she grow'd ten years younger in a night.<br>Jist 'ere, Doreen she sez to me, 'Good Lor,<br>Wot do yeh want two plugs uv 'baccer for?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I takes me pipe out uv me mouth an' stares,<br>An' stammers, 'Must 'ave found a piece - somewheres.'<br>But, by the way she smiles - so extra sweet <br>I know she twigs me game, an' I am beat.<br>'Fancy,' she sez. 'Yeh're absent-minded, dear.<br>Sure there was nothin' else yeh wanted 'ere?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nothin',' I sez, an' feels a first-prize fool;<br>An' goes outside, an' grabs the nearest tool.<br>It was the crosscut; so I works like mad<br>To keep me self-respeck from goin' bad.<br>'This game,' I tells meself, 'will do yeh good.<br>You ain't proficient, yet, at sawin' wood.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Ole Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen.
I'm in the paddick slashin' down some ferns;
She's comin' up the road; an' if she turns
An 'andspring I won't be su'prised a bit,
The way she's caperin', an' goin' it...."></div>
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