Around the World, Book 2Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett & comapny, 1898 - Geography |
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... ground . This bare ground is covered with stones , and is used as a fireplace . Tipoochac's grand- mother cooks here . She mixes flour and water and makes cakes . She fries the cakes in salmon oil . Tipoochac brings her the oil in a ...
... ground . This bare ground is covered with stones , and is used as a fireplace . Tipoochac's grand- mother cooks here . She mixes flour and water and makes cakes . She fries the cakes in salmon oil . Tipoochac brings her the oil in a ...
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... grounds or to his hunting lodge to live a part of the year . His canoe is large enough for his family , and the men ... ground . He watches his fire TOTEM POLE . and does not let it burn the outside of the tree . He fells the tree into ...
... grounds or to his hunting lodge to live a part of the year . His canoe is large enough for his family , and the men ... ground . He watches his fire TOTEM POLE . and does not let it burn the outside of the tree . He fells the tree into ...
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... ground on some . sticks . The bark will be peeled off and a slow fire made on top of the log . Tipoochac and his grandfather will watch the fire . He will burn it just where he wishes to hollow out the log . Then he will chip away the ...
... ground on some . sticks . The bark will be peeled off and a slow fire made on top of the log . Tipoochac and his grandfather will watch the fire . He will burn it just where he wishes to hollow out the log . Then he will chip away the ...
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... ground . Each girl tries to run where she can kick it as it comes down . Sometimes they draw a line on the ice and play on sides . If the snowball touches the ground on Marchan's side of the line her party is beaten . When it touches the ...
... ground . Each girl tries to run where she can kick it as it comes down . Sometimes they draw a line on the ice and play on sides . If the snowball touches the ground on Marchan's side of the line her party is beaten . When it touches the ...
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Tolman (Mrs. Stella Webster (Carroll)) Clarence Franklin Carroll. ground for a whole hour by kicking it . Do you could do that ? think you When they are tired of football they play blindman's buff . They draw a circle on the ice , and no ...
Tolman (Mrs. Stella Webster (Carroll)) Clarence Franklin Carroll. ground for a whole hour by kicking it . Do you could do that ? think you When they are tired of football they play blindman's buff . They draw a circle on the ice , and no ...
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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.