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Page 57
... expected a renewed experience in the matter of lint and bandages , such as occupied so much of our time during the war . He kept on steadily adding boards , and windows , and siding , and beams together , till they took on the semblance ...
... expected a renewed experience in the matter of lint and bandages , such as occupied so much of our time during the war . He kept on steadily adding boards , and windows , and siding , and beams together , till they took on the semblance ...
Page 59
... expected to occupy , was doubt- less as good , and had the advantage of a tight roof and solid walls . Here I could conveniently watch the progress of the undertaking without being so deeply interested as if my lodging depended on it ...
... expected to occupy , was doubt- less as good , and had the advantage of a tight roof and solid walls . Here I could conveniently watch the progress of the undertaking without being so deeply interested as if my lodging depended on it ...
Page 72
... expected to keep moving . I hardly drove him sufficiently to learn his eccentricities of temper , and on one occasion laid down the reins for a moment . He immediately started , and the reins slipped over the dash - board out of reach ...
... expected to keep moving . I hardly drove him sufficiently to learn his eccentricities of temper , and on one occasion laid down the reins for a moment . He immediately started , and the reins slipped over the dash - board out of reach ...
Page 89
... expected ; or possibly his workmen had gone on more sprees than he allowed for . Three weeks had gone by , and we were still drawing wa- ter ; and , what is more , the water which we did with such infinite pains draw up was far from ...
... expected ; or possibly his workmen had gone on more sprees than he allowed for . Three weeks had gone by , and we were still drawing wa- ter ; and , what is more , the water which we did with such infinite pains draw up was far from ...
Page 108
... expected to hold the crop , existed as yet only in an- ticipation ; and when the hay did finally dry , it had to be collected in a pile , which Weeville called a stack , and left to the mercy of the elements . How- ever , the labor cost ...
... expected to hold the crop , existed as yet only in an- ticipation ; and when the hay did finally dry , it had to be collected in a pile , which Weeville called a stack , and left to the mercy of the elements . How- ever , the labor cost ...
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