"I'll stand in the fields a quarter of the day, our daughter, Millicent, another quarter of the day, our son Thomas, another quarter of day, and you, the last quarter." said the angry farmers wife.
So each member of the family stood in the fields,
and the
field and the near the
s, for
6 hours per day.
One day while 8 year old Millicent was in the fields, she had
an idea. She put a on a long stick and stuck the
stick in the ground then she filled her jacket with straw and
put it there too. " It scares
so I'll call it a
."