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By Jack Joseph Smith

3 demanded but he sat with a group when up in the hollow mad or just plain getting something off this chest. And he went home at night after each of his three turns of morning... swing and graveyard. The farmer forehead up chewing on that big cigar pained lanky body squinting through his eyes while they swabbed the wooden hallways spit shinning over and over the wax. Process formed with the boys about where they are right now as single sile their feet slid the rags as their eyes waited for the turns that would take them out of sight of Cid.

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The narrator describes Cid's shifts and the boys polishing wooden hallways while waiting to move beyond his sight.

The boys slide rags under their feet and watch for turns that take them away from Cid. The writer cancels several rows and revises the farmer description, leaving Process formed and an unfinished opening in the surviving text.

Claude

Page 3 continues the institutional account: someone who 'went home at night after each of his / three turns of morning... swing and graveyard', then 'The farmer forehead up chewing on that big cigar' watches the boys as they 'swabbed the / wooden hallways spit shinning over and over the wax'. It closes on the boys whose 'feet slid the rags as their eyes waited for the turns / that would take them out of sight of Cid.'

The page is about work under watch: shifts, wax, rags and a supervisor whose gaze the boys try to escape. Heavy typed cancellations leave fragments such as 'Process formed', so the prose reads as a draft in the middle of revision. The shift names and the waxing routine give the scene a plain, physical texture.