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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. GETTING ON. Mrs. Garfield was making her spinning-wheel hum when the children came home. She was obliged to economize her time in order to clothe her family with goods of her own manufacture. The spinning-wheel and loom were just as indispensable to pioneers, at that time, as a Dutch oven was. The age of factories had not come, certainly not in that part of the country. In New England, even, factories were in their infancy then, ? small affairs. Oh, such a good time as we have had ! exclaimed Mehetabel, as she came rushing into the cabin with James and her sister. Twenty-one scholars, added her sister, under considerable excitement. Mr. Sander's children were there, and they have twice as far to go as we have. They have to walk over three miles. And how did Jimmy get on at school? inquired their mother, as soon as there was a place for her to put in a word. He liked it, answered Mehetabel; he said his letters; and he asked the master how he knew that letter was R. Just like him, ejaculated Thomas, laughing outright . Thomas had just come in, leaving his work when he saw the children return. The master will haveenough to do to answer all his questions. What did the master tell him ? He told him that he learned it was R at school, when he was about as old as he was, replied Mehetabel. And Thomas was giving Jimmy a toss in the air, by way of sport, while she was relating the facts, and Jimmy himself was making a most vigorous attempt to embellish the occurrences of the day from his imperfect vocabulary. How did you like your ride, Jimmy ? inquired Thomas. Me like it, was the child's answer, uttered in a gleeful way. You liked it better than Hit did, I guess. I liked it well enough, responded Mehetabel. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459098459
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459098455
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 327 gr


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