And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Nope, oat straw.
ReplyDeletethe shocks, on the way to the threshing machine
DeleteI was hoping someone got it, I'm a farmer and that isn't hay, maybe wheat but most likely oats
ReplyDeleteStooks!!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to drop a match on that.
ReplyDeleteOat shocks on the way to the threshing machine. Rode on a similar wagon with my Grandpa doing the same thing back in the early 50's.
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