Bill In His Days As A Farmworker

Bill in his days as a farmworker witnessed many plagues of mice He said the damage done by the tiny creatures it wasn't very nice For the farmer to look at some of his grain crop by them destroyed To the huge dent in his profit he wasn't overjoyed. Until in his forty fifth year he married Katie his now devoted wife He was an itinerant farmworker for twenty five years of his life From shearing to other Seasonal work, horsebreaker and Jackaroo When it came to farm and ranch work not one thing he could not do. His stories of the mice plagues in the Fall of the year Are truly quite amazing good as one could wish to hear On mostly every ear of wheat in the wheat fields a nibbling mouse to see They multiplied in millions to the farmers poverty. A mouse plague in the Autumn is every wheat farmer's fear But in a span of three to four weeks most of the mice seemed to disappear Just one of the many stories from his farm working days that old Bill loves to tell If a publisher would publish them from book sales he'd do well.