stuck a pole into the ground near each bean plant, so that the vine,
when it was feeling around for something to climb on, would find the
pole. The poles, after they were stuck into the ground, went up in the
air just a little higher than Uncle John's head. And Uncle John said,
"Gee up" again, and the old oxen turned around and went back along the
road and in at the wide gate and up past the kitchen door to the shed.
And Uncle John unhooked the tongue of the cart and took off the yoke,
and the oxen went into the barn.
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Then the bean vines kept on growing, and they got higher and higher, and
they twisted around and found the poles, and they held on to the poles
and kept on twisting and climbing until they had reached the tops of the
poles. Then the flowers came on the vines, and afterward the pods with
beans in them grew where the flowers had been. For the beans are only
the seeds that the flowers change into after they wither away. And at
the end of the summer, when the beans had stopped growing and were
ripe, Uncle John gathered them and took them in to Aunt Deborah.
And that's all.
THE END.