The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Busy Year at the Old Squire''''''''s, by Charles Asbury Stephens pdf

... unless perhaps to aid Catherine and Theodora for a moment, with some hard passage. It was Tom and I who made Latin noisy, aggravated at times by pranks from Halstead, whose studies in natural philosophy ... in Maine farming. Cream-separators were as yet undreamed of. A water-creamery with long cans and ice was then used for raising the cream; and that meant an ice- house and the c...

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... study, scarcely noticed or looked up, unless perhaps to aid Catherine and Theodora for a moment, with some hard passage. It was Tom and I who made Latin noisy, aggravated at times by pranks progress. "Now ... Theodora and Catherine copy out page after page of it— as many as twenty pages. He wanted us each to have a copy of it; and for a time at least, he intended to have it p...

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... father and mother, both born in Leominster, were schoolmates, and in due time they married. Father was at first a clerk in the country store, but at an early age became the tavern-keeper. I was ... denoting the date of his acquisition in the Harrison campaign. All day the faithful nag trod a horizontal wheel in the cellar, which gave way to his efforts and generated the...

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... she had easy access to the sea by the river or by land, and an open way inland up the one great natural entrance from the sea into central Italy.[8] SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME IN THE AGE OF CICERO BY ... found a place in Roman annals if the Capitol had been as deeply set in the hearts of the people as was the Acropolis in the hearts of the Athenians. At a later ti...

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... It has appreciate the force of Father Faber's appeal to the frank spirit of a wholesome mirth. Perhaps one reason for the scanty tolerance that humor receives at the hands of the disaffected ... has been lit up here and there by sparks struck from one's youthful fire, and that these sparks, though they brighter and pleasanter things. When Father Faber said that there...

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... threatened to indict the place as a nuisance, to appeal to the mayor; and upon "some good-natured friend" telling her that mine host had snapped his fingers at her as a chattering old ... backward instead of forward, as that placid animal when provoked has the habit of doing, came in contact with a weak part of the paling which divided Miss Firkin's back premi...

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... which represents a cassowary with two wattles— probably an immature had done this at Agaçai and in Amboyna also. The return voyage to Malacca was marked by disaster. A junk, which now was bought to replace the ... Libraries.) had taken possession of it. Zoologically the Banda Islands lie within Wallace’s Australian Region, and their avifauna has a great affinity with that of A...

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... the last morning that Grandpa and Grandma were there, Daddy said at the breakfast table—quite suddenly, as if he had just thought of it— "Mother, suppose But Grandma knew. Away back in the orchard, ... hardly eat any breakfast. Mother wisely remembered that when she packed their lunch-box. The last minute, they ran across the street to tell their playmates good -by. When they...

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... looked straight into their faces, unashamed and unafraid. They dropped their eyes, and hurried away as quickly as they could. They did not bother Charles again; for the principal had heard of their actions, ... some way, after that, Joyce felt that it would come out all right. It did. On the last morning that Grandpa and Grandma were there, Daddy said at the breakfast table—quite su...

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... car, and afterwards met Carmona at another garage, he had disappeared, apparently, into thin air. Nevertheless, Dick and I formed a theory that the new auto- mobile, of which we had heard so many ... think I can promise that, though it THE CAR OF DESTINY BY C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON Illustrations by Armand Both OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHORS Lady Betty Across the Water,...

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