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The Introduction

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I'm askin' you'll be easy for a bit, Sir,     The lad's had little but a thrush's schoolin',     The blue skies and the fields, the little whipster,     'Tis time enough for something more--(But whisper)     He'll go the better for an easy rulin'.     Herself was always for the bit of readin'     But Denny here, he's great for growin' things,     There's not a primrose that he'd not be heedin'     Herself is right 'tis graver things he's needin'     The thrush is tamer when you clip his wings.     I'd never have you spare him with the learnin',     (And, Faith, 'tis little that the lad has had),     But if above his task you'll see him turnin'     To watch the fields--'tis just the thrush's yearnin'--     I'm askin' you'll be easy with the lad.

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"I'm askin' you'll be easy for a bit, Sir,..."

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