Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1901 — MAUDIE AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

MAUDIE AGAIN.

Maud Muller once on a Bummer’s day Went down to the meadow to rake the hay. The sun, especially 'long 'bout noon, Was hotter than love in the month of June. But Maudie was cunning; the rustic rose Had a novel hid in her working clothes. A pallet of hay she raked in the shade Of a spreading chestnut, and down she laid. And she read and read, and she read and read Till she fell asleep on her grassy bed. And the sun was setting when she awoke. And the hay she had gone to rake was unroke.