FEINBERG/WHITMAN                       LITERARY FILE                  Prose "Work on the Farm" (undated).  A.MS draft.
Box 36 Folder 74                                                                                                                 178
Work on the Farm: prose. A.MS. (1p. 9 x 20 cm.)
Written in pencil on a slip torn from a larger lined sheet, about 100 words:

floor with his hands in his pockets, he leans [against over] on the 
rail of the manger;; he speaks to the old [h] mare, and to the colt
also; he looks at the hens scratching and straddling, and picking
 up.  [Then what they] He does some little job of domestic carpentery 
that fills up a couple of hours; then he sharpens his axe, -- [He] he 
makes a better staple for the [deer] bin, --He [drives] puts up the 
collar of his coat and goes forth and drives some stake; [and] he
 chops wood, and perhaps looks a little at the fast driving clouds
 up there. --Hefloor with his hands in his pockets. He leans 
[against over] on the rail of the manger;; He speaks
 to the old [h] mare, and to the colt also; 
he looks at the hens scratching and straddling, and picking
 up [Then what the] He does some little job of 
domestic carpentery that fills up a couple 
of hours; then he sharpens his axe.  [He] he makes
 a better staple for the [door] bin - He [drives] puts up the collar of his coat and 
goes forth and drives some stake; [and] he chops wood and perhaps looks 
a little at the fast driving clouds up there. - He