Magpie questions
- ‘The bracken made their bed’ = They lacked a lot of their money
- ‘Tom’s hand was strong to the plough’ = He was pushing hard to turn all the soil over with the plough
- ‘But all the beautiful crops soon went / to the mortgage man instead’ = The sold the crops and gave the money to the mortgage
- ‘Old Tom’s gone light in the head
- ‘The farm’s still there. Mortgage corporations / couldn’t give it away’ = they couldn't pay because they didn't own the farm eany more
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