The men said it was time to tear down the old barn. The boys were afraid this was coming. For years an old mare named Swayback moped around the farm. When she died, the men started calling the old barn Swayback. This was not a good sign.
Jim Heynen writes of an old mare and an older barn. The mare has died and the barn is soon to go. The men would like to see it leveled. The boys are determined to keep it standing.
The engraving is of Patti & Lowell Moline's old barn, off of County Road N near Pepin, Wisconsin.
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Jim Heynen
Old Swayback
MPS LITTLE BOOK 7
7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. 26 pages. 128 numbered copies. Color wood engraving folds out. Signed by the author and the artist. Hand-set in Italian Old Style type. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, with the fold out on Japanese paper. Bound in cloth. In a slipcase.
