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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker explains wagon upkeep as a responsibility to its riders, then gives the man the task of stealing a wheel and the women the task of holding back and closing the bush.
The speaker uses responsibility to justify theft in this brief continuation of the wagon story. The last row leaves the practical meaning of closing the bush unexplained; the interpretation does not invent the women's motives or endorse the passage's stereotype.
Six typed rows: 'It all bares a certain responsibility / Now if you are a gypsy on a wagon / the wagon needs tending to', then 'so the man must steal the wheel / And the women must hold back and close the bush'.
A plain statement of the roles in the wheel theft, matching the cursive page before it.