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When quite Cold there will be a thick hard Scum on ye top like hard Soap wch must be cutt out into Cakes or parcells in proportion to the vessell used in Boiling & ye goodness yo intend yr Soap . Eight pounds will do for a Vessell of 14 ...
When quite Cold there will be a thick hard Scum on ye top like hard Soap wch must be cutt out into Cakes or parcells in proportion to the vessell used in Boiling & ye goodness yo intend yr Soap . Eight pounds will do for a Vessell of 14 ...
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Mrs. Haskins remembered little but hard work . It seemed wonderful to me that a woman should work as hard as she did , even in the early days , and she made out quite a case , I thought , against her daughters , her daughters - in - law ...
Mrs. Haskins remembered little but hard work . It seemed wonderful to me that a woman should work as hard as she did , even in the early days , and she made out quite a case , I thought , against her daughters , her daughters - in - law ...
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He had quizzed the quaint folk until they were tired of him ; he had learned they called their wheat Turkey , that it was hard , that their old folks , the first settlers , had brought it in ; that one of their own people ground it .
He had quizzed the quaint folk until they were tired of him ; he had learned they called their wheat Turkey , that it was hard , that their old folks , the first settlers , had brought it in ; that one of their own people ground it .
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Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Harvest: An Anthology of Farm Writing |
| Editor | Wheeler McMillen |
| Publisher | Appleton-Century, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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