Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

18.

Steady – Steady –

Take it easy – Take it easy –

Bike (probably back)

Steady - - - Back!

Easy on it – Steady now –

Ste-e-ady –

Come around here – Come a-round!

Whoa – get em up –

Easy - - - Steady –

Whoa – God-damn yuh – come here etc.

As the sun declined, the light on the plowed land, changed and grew less interesting. He finished shortly before sun-down.

     Mentally exhausted, and for the moment somewhat bored with my whole days work, as I drove homeward, I parked by the road, and watched the sun go down. As it almost touched the horizon, tho it glowed brilliantly, I could look at it directly. Looking straight into it, it seemed to swell, first on one side then on the another, like molten iron.

     After sun-down, I took a walk across some fields to the south, and into a little woods. In the east, above the beautiful pink + plum colored sun-bow, the slightly gibbons moon, the pale lemon light slowly increasing, shone in a dark gray-blue sky – A raw wind, seemingly released by the disappearance of the sun, came out of the north east; the ghostly