Monday, 17 June 2019

The magpies

  1. ‘The bracken made their bed’?
When they first arrived they didnt have bedding so they used bracken to make a mattress.
  1. ‘Tom’s hand was strong to the plough’?
He had a strong hand to do ploughing.
  1. ‘But all the beautiful crops soon went / to the mortgage man instead’?
The money that they earned from the crops went towards paying the morgage.
  1. ‘Old Tom’s gone light in the head’?
Old tom has porobly lost a few screws and is probly a bit loopy and might have a dieses like alzihumers.
  1. ‘The farm’s still there. Mortgage corporations / couldn’t give it away’?    They might have died and nobody wanted to buy the house.

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