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A watchers’ stage

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A watchers’ stage.jpg An ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding usAn ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding usAn ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding usAn ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding usAn ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding usAn ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coalsMiniaturesA heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding us

Many families now built stages in their fields, where the girls and young women of the household came to sit and sing as they watched that crows and other thieves did not steal the ripening grain.

A watchers’ stage was not hard to build. Four posts, forked at the tops, upheld beams, on which was laid a floor of puncheons, or split small logs, at the height of the full grown corn. The floor was about four feet long by three wide, roomy enough for two girls to sit together comfortably. Often a soft robe was spread on the floor. A ladder made of the trunk of a tree rested against the stage. The ladder had three steps.