The scarecrow you can see in the car park in the corner beside the main path, is a traditional figure for keeping the birds away from crops, but our scarecrow is a permanent sculpture.
So, awkward questions were being asked about why the nobility and the clergy were tax-exempt, while the scarecrow poor were supposed to empty their pockets.
She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way.
The Sentinelese allegedly later hung the bodies of the two men up on bamboo poles on the beach, facing outwards to the ocean as if they were scarecrows, a warning to the outside world to never come visit again.
She wanted to make her scarecrow look better and better, for she was a good worker. She made a purple coat and put it around her scarecrow, and dressed it in white silk stockings.
Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster's desk, half a dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows, one of whom placed a torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye.
He and your mother were the couple married just afore we were and there stood they father's cross with arms stretched out like a great banging scarecrow.
She looked at Feathertop and laughed with happiness. He is a beauty, she thought. Now what? she thought, feeling troubled again. She felt that Feathertop looked too good to be a scarecrow.