The way side — i.e., on the skirts of the broad path that crossed the field. Here the surface was hard and smooth, the grain lay on the surface, the pigeons and other birds that followed the sower reaped an immediate harvest.
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Matthew 13:4
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: