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In the summer we can live on garden truck, an' in the fall there is wild reddishes an' water-cresses an' spatterdock, an' nuts an' pertatoes come in mighty handy fur winter wuck. Why, I was born wuckin' when I was a gal I cooked, washed and done house-work for a family of ten, an' then had time to spin ten hanks o' yarn a day."
The old woman clutched at the bed-post: "Me? not wuck anymo'? Not hunt 'sang an' spatterdock an' clean up an' wash an' scour an' cook an' " "No, why not, Tabitha? We've got a plenty to " He saw her clutch again at the bed-post and go down in a heap, saying: "Lemme die now, if I can't wuck no mo'." They lifted her on the bed and bathed her face.
He did not call the yellow spatterdock Nuphar advena, but he knew its large leaves of rich green, where the black bass or pickerel sheltered themselves from the summer sun, and its yellow balls on stout stems, around which his line so often twined and twisted, or in which the hook caught, not to be jerked out till the long, green, juicy stalk itself, topped with globe of greenish gold, came up from its wet bed.
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