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The handwritten draft describes people under a full moon, household lights, and a feast from toil. It then turns to a wheel, steel, theft, and a dated Portland reference before a wife holds back the bush and the faint ending breaks off.

The writer joins domestic company with labor and a difficult account of obtaining a wheel. Kerosene, candle, and electric lights replace the old interpretation's light of her. The provisional Lastly through and burned in seal readings warrant caution; the surviving So the cannot supply a complete conclusion.

A cursive poem: 'They MAdE there whispers glow / Before a moon that shone', 'The lights of kerOSENE, candle, and electric too', then 'they had to go for the wheel now', a man who found 'what he wanted to / steal with a burned in seal, Portland, / Oct 1910', and 'The wife held back the bush,'.

The page belongs to the gypsy wheel-theft material; its last row is too faint to read past 'So the', and several cursive words stay provisional.