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COUNTRYWOMEN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD

First Line: THESE BE TWO
Last Line: SQUINTING THROUGH THEIR NEIGHBOURS' PLACKETS.
Subject(s): WOMEN;
These be two
Countrywomen.
What a size!
Grand big arms
And round red faces;
Big substantial
Sit-down-places;
Great big bosoms firm as cheese
Bursting through their country jackets;
Wide big laps
And sturdy knees;
Hands outspread,
Round and rosy,
Hands to hold
A country posy
Or a baby or a lamb --
And such eyes!
Stupid, shifty, small and sly
Peeping through a slit of sty,
Squinting through their neighbours' plackets.



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