My Autobiography: Some Events Pathetic But Absolutely True1861 - 74 pages |
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... corn planted before or by the twenty - ninth of May . After breakfast this morning Mrs. Hill said to me , " Now Ellen , you wash up the dishes while I tend to the milk and things , and you put all the dishes you wash up on the safe ...
... corn planted before or by the twenty - ninth of May . After breakfast this morning Mrs. Hill said to me , " Now Ellen , you wash up the dishes while I tend to the milk and things , and you put all the dishes you wash up on the safe ...
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... corn . The only release I had from feeding the cane into the grinder was when my hands and fingers would be so swollen from the stings of the yellow - jackets and hornets that I could not hold the cane stocks to steer them into the ...
... corn . The only release I had from feeding the cane into the grinder was when my hands and fingers would be so swollen from the stings of the yellow - jackets and hornets that I could not hold the cane stocks to steer them into the ...
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... corn cutter was there for dinner and supper . I washed the clothes each week and ironed them . I baked bread , pies and molasses cakes ( they were something like cookies ) , and the crullers I made were something like doughnuts . I ...
... corn cutter was there for dinner and supper . I washed the clothes each week and ironed them . I baked bread , pies and molasses cakes ( they were something like cookies ) , and the crullers I made were something like doughnuts . I ...
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... corn ( before I learned why I should not ) . I remembered how BoBo , my pet cat , had started to follow me and I had to chase him back . All this was too much for me , the courage that was mine a little while ago had left me . I was ...
... corn ( before I learned why I should not ) . I remembered how BoBo , my pet cat , had started to follow me and I had to chase him back . All this was too much for me , the courage that was mine a little while ago had left me . I was ...
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... corn , which he said was a failure because it was too fresh . Then Mrs. Cline glanced through my books , occasionally remarking about a title or chapter , at which she would be looking , and she quoted a verse from the book , " Basket ...
... corn , which he said was a failure because it was too fresh . Then Mrs. Cline glanced through my books , occasionally remarking about a title or chapter , at which she would be looking , and she quoted a verse from the book , " Basket ...
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Page 67 - There are lonely hearts to cherish, While the days are going by ; There are weary souls who perish, While the days are going by...
Page 5 - Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
Page 30 - No. 93. /"\H, how sweet when we mingle with kindred spirits here, ^-' And tell of Jesus and His love ! When by faith we can see Him, and feel His presence near, And lift our longing souls above. We shall meet on the banks of the river ; happy, happy there for evermore. We shall dwell with the angels, and join with choral song, our loved ones, loved ones gone before.
Page 74 - Eureka! this the purpose I pursue ; For, behold, a god hath called me, and his service I shall do! " Brother, seek thy calling likewise, thou wert destined for the same; Sloth is sin, and toil is worship, and the soul demands an aim : Who neglects the ordination, he shall not escape the blame.
Page 53 - I thanked her and wanted to know if there was something that I could do for her, but she answered, "Never mind, child, you do well to do the things you are compelled to do.
Page 41 - Hill, but he heard me crying and came to me and asked me what the matter was. I told him. He said, "Never mind, daughter, I'll tell Mother to go look herself. She'll see no little potatoes.