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And my desire was granted, for I saw near a corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street, a little flaxen-haired man with a face like a scaly-bark hickory-nut, selling to a fast-gathering crowd a tool that omnigeneously proclaimed itself a can-opener, a screw-driver, a button-hook, a nail-file, a shoe-horn, a watch-guard, a potato-peeler, and an ornament to any gentleman's key-ring.
The lawn sloped away from the house to a brook at the bottom, and beyond the brook the ground rose to a woodland hilltop. Across the distance you distinguished there the familiar trees of blue-grass pastures: white ash and black ash; white oak and red oak; white walnut and black walnut; and the scaly-bark hickory in his roughness and the sycamore with her soft leoparded limbs.
He likes de oak, an' de poplum, an' de scaly-bark. Gosh! but he am dar! continued Abe, raising his voice, and looking outward `Look yonder, massa! He had climb by de great vine. Dat's right, Pomp! you am right after all, and dis nigga's a fool. Hee up, ole dog! hee up!
Harper's favorite big words I was old enough to tell the difference between an ordinary animal say, a house cat and any one of the commoner forms of plant life, such as, for example, the scaly-bark hickory tree, practically at a glance.