Wallace: A Franconia StoryHarper, 1850 - 203 páginas A young girl and her brother spend the summer holidays in upstate New York with their aunt and cousins. |
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Página 90
... shore . He said that we should have to take the small boat , for whenever the river was partly frozen it was unsafe to use the great boat at all . We should get into the boat , and go on in it as far as the water was open , and then ...
... shore . He said that we should have to take the small boat , for whenever the river was partly frozen it was unsafe to use the great boat at all . We should get into the boat , and go on in it as far as the water was open , and then ...
Página 91
... shore to shore , and then my father was to come back and take my mother home . " Difficulties in crossing the river . Running ice . " THE STORY - TELLING . 91.
... shore to shore , and then my father was to come back and take my mother home . " Difficulties in crossing the river . Running ice . " THE STORY - TELLING . 91.
Página 92
... shore , but the men soon got it loose by rocking it about , and break- ing the ice around it with their poles . We then all got into the boat and pushed out upon the water . " There were a great many cakes of ice run- ning down with the ...
... shore , but the men soon got it loose by rocking it about , and break- ing the ice around it with their poles . We then all got into the boat and pushed out upon the water . " There were a great many cakes of ice run- ning down with the ...
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... shore , my father took me up to a tavern , where I warmed myself by a great blazing fire , while the men harnessed a horse into a sleigh to take us home . It was only two or three miles that we had to go , and we got there very quick ...
... shore , my father took me up to a tavern , where I warmed myself by a great blazing fire , while the men harnessed a horse into a sleigh to take us home . It was only two or three miles that we had to go , and we got there very quick ...
Página 119
... shores were bordered generally on all sides by a smooth beach , which contained , among the sands , a great variety of beautifully colored pebbles . The bottom of the pond was of hard sand , and as the water was very clear and not very ...
... shores were bordered generally on all sides by a smooth beach , which contained , among the sands , a great variety of beautifully colored pebbles . The bottom of the pond was of hard sand , and as the water was very clear and not very ...
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accident afraid Antoine asked Phonny Augusta balcony basket beautiful Beech began Bell's blueberries boat bonnet boys bridge Bunnianne called Caroline Caroline's carpet-bag carry court-martial crew door drawing encampment fastened father ferryman fire flageolet forbidden flowers Franconia garden gave Gibraltar girls give Golf Grand excursion Grey gunwale half Calf Henry's inkstand invitation Julius Cæsar lamp closet looked Malleville's Mary Bell mother Muslin oakum oars oarsmen pails paper Parker party path Phon Phonny and Malleville Phonny's picture pleasant pond precipice pretty proposed queen ready replied Beechnut replied Wallace rest rocks sail Sarah saying seats shore side sing sitting song stone stopped story sugar summer-house tall fir tell tent thing thought tion tired told took trees trunk turned village walk Wallace's window wish write yard
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