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Mystery Of The Scarecrow Creeper!

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Consider the job description, which has not changed in four thousand years: stand in the field. Frighten things away.

Nobody ever writes down which things, you notice. Nobody sets a limit on it.

A fellow gets stuffed with straw and stood up on a pole in the middle of a pumpkin field with a burlap sack for a face and one lamp lit behind the eyehole, and he is given a single instruction, and the instruction is FRIGHTEN, and then everybody acts astonished when he turns out to be extremely good at it.

The crows left in August. The dogs will not come past the fence. The farmer has started taking the long way round to his own barn.

Best hire that man ever made. Ask him and see what he says.

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Scarecrows are one of the oldest jobs on earth. Egyptian farmers set wooden frames in the wheat along the Nile. Greek growers carved figures and stood them among the vines. Medieval English villages hired boys to run through the crops banging clappers before anyone thought to build something that would just stand there permanently. The figure has always been a stand-in for a person — that is why it works, and that is why every farm kid in history has looked at one twice on the walk home.

A stand-in for a person, standing in a field, is exactly the shape the format kept reaching for.

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