| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46553 |
| QUOTATION: | a feller is a-feelin’ at his best,
With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), U.S. poet. When the Frost Is on the Punkin (l. 5–8). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press. |
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