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"I don't know what my dress will be, though." "I'll make a bow-arrow, and a gun, and a steamboat for Prudy." "And I'll give Susy my large doll, and make a blue dress for it, with flowing sleeves. She shall put all her things into my cabinet." "What'll we have to eat? Pecans, and 'simmons, and raisins, and figs." "O, we shall have plenty to eat, Horace, we always do.
The larger boys used to amuse themselves by playing a ball called Paw-kaw-do-way, foot- racing, wrestling, bow-arrow shooting, and trying to beat one another shooting the greatest number of chipmunks and squirrels in a day, etc. I never heard any boy or any grown person utter any bad language, even if they were out of patience with anything.
What SHE saw in him to attract her was equally strange; possibly it may have been his brown-gooseberry eyes or his warts; but she was quite content to trot after him, like a young squaw, carrying his "bow-arrow," or his "trap," supremely satisfied to share his woodland knowledge or his scanter confidences. For nobody who knew Johnny suspected that she was privy to his great secret.
An old farmer in my neighborhood, who always selects the right word, says that "they have a kind of bow-arrow tang." Apples for grafting appear to have been selected commonly, not so much for their spirited flavor, as for their mildness, their size, and bearing qualities, not so much for their beauty, as for their fairness and soundness.
An old farmer in my neighborhood, who always selects the right word, says that "they have a kind of bow-arrow tang." Apples for grafting appear to have been selected commonly, not so much for their spirited flavor, as for their mildness, their size, and bearing qualities, not so much for their beauty, as for their fairness and soundness.
An old farmer in my neighborhood, who always selects the right word, says that "they have a kind of bow-arrow tang." Apples for grafting appear to have been selected commonly, not so much for their spirited flavor, as for their mildness, their size, and bearing qualities, not so much for their beauty, as for their fairness and soundness.
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