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laden with a basketful of logs of bread-and-cheese, 

 while her hopeful follows in her wake with the beer- 

 can, so that all soon arrive with ourselves at the 

 grateful conviction that a most important turn has 

 been taken in the affairs of the farm : 



" When the fiery fight is heard no more, 

 And the storm has ceased to blow. " 



