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Updated: June 16, 2025


We split the rations up into slips about the size of a carpenter's lead pencil, and used them parsimoniously, never building a fire so big that it could not be covered with a half-peck measure. We hovered closely over this covering it, in fact, with our hands and bodies, so that not a particle of heat was lost.

The boy had on a white felt hat with a narrow brim. It looked like a half-peck measure. His hair was white. His trousers were too short for him. All his clothes were coarse and poor. He was such a strange-looking boy, that Mr. Bliss wanted to laugh. "I heard that you wanted a boy," Horace said. "Do you want to learn to print?" Mr. Bliss said. "Yes," said Horace.

Out on the hen-house roof are drying what, when the soap-box wagon was first built, promised barrels and barrels of nuts to be brought up with the pitcher of cider for our comforting in the long winter evenings, but what turns out, when the shucks are off, to be a poor, pitiful half-peck, daily depleted by the urgent necessity of finding out if they are dry enough yet.

His mind was in the throes of displacing a barrel of sugar and a half-peck of pease by a little boy. Then his face brightened. He spoke quickly and decidedly. "Yes," said he, "just before this gentleman came in, a little boy, running, yes." "You did not see him come out while we were talking?" asked Anderson. "No, oh no."

She places a brown rye-and-Indian loaf, of the size of a half-peck, in the centre of the table, a pan of milk, with the cream stirred in, brown earthen bowls, with bright pewter spoons by the dozen, a delicious cheese, whole, and the table is ready.

Barton'd never live so long without that watch, and that half-peck o' seals, if he could help it!" "This, too, may as well be kept to ourselves," Barton suggested. "It isn't agreeable to a man to have it known that he's been so taken in as I was, and that's just the reason why I kept it to myself; and, of course, I shouldn't like it to get around."

However, as my crop was but small, I had no great difficulty to cut it down: in short, I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made, and so rubbed it out with my hands: and at the end of all my harvesting I found, that out of my half-peck of seed I had near two bushels of rice, and above two bushels and a half of barley, that is to say, by my guess, for I had no measure at that time.

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