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Updated: May 17, 2025
Their light household occupations, together with the manufacture of tappa, the platting of mats, and the polishing of drinking-vessels, were the only employments pertaining to the women. And even these resembled those pleasant avocations which fill up the elegant morning leisure of our fashionable ladies at home.
"You saw me, just now, talking with Cornelius, didn't you?" "Yass, seh." "His wife's dead, at last." No answer. "Johanna," he turned a playful eye, "what makes you so hard on Cornelius!" She replied with a white glance of alarm and turned away. He would have pressed the subject but she murmured, "Dah Miss Barb." Barbara sat on a bare ledge of rock above the road-side, platting clovers.
"How soon will you be platting your Sunflower Ranch into town lots for the new town that I hear is to be started down your way?" John Jacobs inquired. "Town lots do not appeal to me, Jacobs," Asher replied. "I'm a slow-growing Buckeye, I'll admit, but I can't see anything but mushrooms in these towns out West where there is no farming community about them.
There are also several other institutions of the same class, amongst others Salford, Ancoats, and Miles Platting Auxiliary Mechanics' Institutes. The Athenaeum constitutes a kind of literary club for the middle classes, who are provided with a good library and reading-room in a very handsome building.
At one time, a detachment of the army, which he succeeded in releasing from a situation of great peril in which they had been placed, testified their gratitude by platting a crown of grass, and placing it upon his brow with great ceremony and loud acclamations.
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