[…] In the very furthest part
A clearing, lately cut, circled a sawmill,
A little shack that buzzed until it shook,
And breathed rankly of elm. I walked around;
The other side was open, whence I watched
The fat back of the sawman as he fed.
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Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […]
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A good sawman can take out eight cords a day, but Frank, driven by the knot of Jackson anger and wildness that drove all his people, could do more.
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