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Consequently, the texts which rural children use should make a strong appeal to their apperception mass to their old stock and store of knowledge. It is the textbooks that bring to the old knowledge new mental material which the teacher and the textbook together attempt to communicate to the children.
It was this indecision of his that had produced the silence while he and Rose had stood in the entrance to Lessing's store. The only resolution he had come to there had been not to allow her to say good night to him and walk away. But now that she was striding along beside him, he couldn't make up his mind what to say to her.
Has anything remarkable occurred?" "Simply an idea, my dear, simply an idea." "Well, well, who'd a thought it. I didn't know that an idea 'ud make one feel so good. Tell me about it, Si." "No, not now. I haven't time. Besides, I want to see how it'll work, an' then I'll surprise ye." Farrington rose from the table, and going to the store went at once to the small office.
Calypso.... She and I, just for fun, sometimes drop into Sweeney's store, and, when she has made her purchases, she draws up from her bosom a little bag, and, looking softly at me, lays down on the counter a golden doubloon; and Sweeney who, doubtless, thinks us all a little crazy smiles indulgently on our make-believe.
For the garrison there remained a small supply of grain, which was given out by mouthfuls, and there was besides a considerable store of salted hides, which they gnawed for lack of better food. The stock of animals had been reduced to nine horses, and these so lean and gaunt that it seemed useless to kill them for food.
There were no beans. And, the dogs howled always, and there were flat bellies and deep-lined faces, and strong men became weak, and weak men died. There was also much scurvy. "Then came we together in the store one night, and the empty shelves made us feel our own emptiness the more.
And now the chance has come, thanks to that blessed blundering boy, I mean to make the most of it. Mind, Hannah, you never whisper a word about its being a mistake. Linda must never know. Poor Linda! She's had a hard time. Hannah, we must make some more pies, and I must go straight down to the store and get some more Santa Claus stuff; I've only got enough to go around the Smithsons." When Mrs.
If he so much as frowned at an uncomfortable thought they became tragic. "Look here, I'm not a brute!" he cried, exasperated. Nesis looked foolish, and quickly turned her head away. Over their tea and bannock they became almost cheerful. Motion had made them both hungry. Ambrose glanced at their slender store. "We'll never hang out to the lake at this rate," he said laughing.
"I walked over from the settlement to make a few inquiries about a relative of mine called Derrick Nasmyth. They told me at the store that you would probably know where he is, and what he is doing." Laura was conscious of a certain resentment against the loquacious storekeeper.
Our new house which we have took is twenty times as big, and covered with gold from top to bottom; but I like this quite as well. Bless you being rich is no better than being poor. When we lived to Albany, and I did most all the work myself, scoured the rooms, biled the kettle, helped the wash, and all, I was just as happy as I am now. We only had one old negro to keep the store.
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