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Tax the farmer, tax his fowl;Tax the dog and tax his howl;Tax his hen and tax her egg;Let the bloomin’ mudsite beg;Tax his pig and tax his squeal;Tax his boots run down at heel;Tax his plow and tax his clothes,Tax the rags that wipe his nose;Tax his
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As a 4-year-old in the summer of 1935, Mike Rookstool observed his father and a crew of workmen unload hay into a barn. “A horse pulled on a rope that went into the barn and that made a fork come down to pick up a bunch of hay,” Mike says. “A guy ins
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