Around the World, Book 2Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett & comapny, 1898 - Geography |
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... deer . An Indian woman twists these fibers into a fine thread by rubbing them between her hands . The threads which go across are made from the wool of goats . A MALLET . The wool is colored yellow and black and brown . The threads are ...
... deer . An Indian woman twists these fibers into a fine thread by rubbing them between her hands . The threads which go across are made from the wool of goats . A MALLET . The wool is colored yellow and black and brown . The threads are ...
Page 24
... deer skins . This Indian is making a larger canoe . He will sew the skins to- gether , with cords made of cedar bark . First he will make holes with awls made of fish bone ; then he will sew the skins together . He will fill the holes ...
... deer skins . This Indian is making a larger canoe . He will sew the skins to- gether , with cords made of cedar bark . First he will make holes with awls made of fish bone ; then he will sew the skins together . He will fill the holes ...
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... deer will be shot with their arrows , and many fish in the bay will be caught . They will kill black bears , for they like the tender bear meat . 2 HUNTING LODGE . 0 They are afraid of the great brown bear . If. ALASKA . 25.
... deer will be shot with their arrows , and many fish in the bay will be caught . They will kill black bears , for they like the tender bear meat . 2 HUNTING LODGE . 0 They are afraid of the great brown bear . If. ALASKA . 25.
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... deer can swim a long distance . Tipoochac's father sees a herd of deer coming to drink in the lake . Tipoochac and the dogs drive the deer Sometimes into the water , and then get on his back and kill him . When no deer KILLING DEER ...
... deer can swim a long distance . Tipoochac's father sees a herd of deer coming to drink in the lake . Tipoochac and the dogs drive the deer Sometimes into the water , and then get on his back and kill him . When no deer KILLING DEER ...
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... deer think another deer is calling them . Tipoochac likes deer meat , or venison . His father will sell the deer skin to the white men , but he will save the horns and bones until next winter . He will make spoons and tools and fish ...
... deer think another deer is calling them . Tipoochac likes deer meat , or venison . His father will sell the deer skin to the white men , but he will save the horns and bones until next winter . He will make spoons and tools and fish ...
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ALASKAN banana beautiful berries birds blankets boat boys brave called cane canoe carved catch century plants chalet chamois chief Christmas climb clothes comes cows Cuba Cubans Dalarne dance deer dishes dressed eggs Eskimos farm fish flowers girls grass ground grow Gustavus Gustavus Vasa Hammerfest Havana Hawaii hook horses Indians island Jeanne Jeanne's Kagoorack lake Lake Lucerne Lapps lasso live Loke Long ago look machete Marchan's meat Mexicans Mexico miles milk Mindacilla Mont Blanc mother mountain Norway ocean Odin Olaf picture planted plow poles Porto Rico potlatch pulque Ramos reindeer rice ride road rocks rope sail salmon Selma ship side SIMPLON PASS skins snow soldiers Sometimes spear spoon stone sugar summer Swiss Tarantula taro tell Thor Tipoochac's Tipoochac's father totem TOTEM POLE trees Viking volante walk watch wear winter wood
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Page 155 - MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...
Page 155 - That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake; And for the same his lineal race In darkness found a dwelling-place. We were seven — who now are one, Six in youth, and one in age...
Page 87 - Take heed that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse; For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the wild Baltic's strand, I, with my childish hand, Tamed the gerfalcon; And, with my skates fast-bound, Skimmed the half-frozen Sound, That the poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on.
Page 136 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 157 - Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high And wanton in the happy sky; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake, unshock'd Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free.
Page 179 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 156 - There are seven pillars of gothic mold, In Chillon's dungeons deep and old, There are seven columns, massy and gray, Dim with a dull imprison'd ray, A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp...
Page 156 - Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side.
Page 156 - Of the thick wall is fallen and left — Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp; And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away Till I have done with this new day...
Page 156 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent no From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls: A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave.