A Quiet Build & Wink'n Sells Strawberry Horsefeed

Three days they had camped

On the field across from the Church.

Quiet, industrious,

They went bout their work.

PHA folk had learned

From long-time tradition

How to raise up timber frame construction.

On the third day

They had finished the Farmer's Market.

Dixie called Wink'n over

As she continued to pack up.

"Take that basket of jam to CG.

Present her this bill

Payable upon delivery."

Wink'n looked at the paper slip

And read the neat script.

"Three quarts strawberry jam,

Customized recipe, for CM.

Each worth two bits.

Total sale = 75¢"

"Aunt Dixie! " Wink'n exclaimed,

"You know your jam would make horses sick!...

Theo told me...

Y'all used sorghum in it!"

Dixie looked up, paused for a moment...

"That's why it costs more.

This batch was custom.

We used blackstrap

Instead of the sorghum."

Later, as the wagon train of PHA folk

rolled toward home,

Wink'n caught up and put the coins in Dixie's outstretched hand.

"Was she satisfied?" Dixie inquired.

But the boy had galloped on ahead...

His heart on fire.