Word: farming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...horse belonged to my uncle, and I was spending part of my vacation on his farm back in Hillsboro' County. Chief among the members of the household was an old spinster aunt. Keen, precise, and often despondent, she used to be a terror to my youthful mind. In her gloomy moods she said little, but expressed her feelings by occasional sniffs, which I found very trying. In her more cheerful moments she would unexpectedly spring all sorts of Bible questions upon me, and snort triumphantly when I failed to answer them. In the evening she would sing in a cracked...
...only served the usual purpose of mats, but it was a transmittendum, and a very venerable one, too. Long years ago one of those New England boys of the bean-pole structure, who entered college at the age of thirteen, brought the mat with him from his farm-home on Narragansett Bay. It was new then, and had been woven in bright colors by an old Indian squaw, a veritable descendant of King Philip. For a year it lay before the front door of the old farm-house; but it was destined to be wiped by more ambitious feet than...
...year for America" if bells, cannons, and newspapers can make it so, I caught the Centennial fever! Every historical spot, from the "dead man's swamp" to the battle-field of White Plains, was sought out with patriotic zeal. I even tried to stop and drink at every old farm-house where Washington is said to have refreshed himself, but I gave it up. (G. W. must have been uncommonly thirsty...
...work upon his father's farm...
...farmers have made a careful study of Virgil's Georgics, and have applied his advice with astounding results. A certain poetic halo has been thrown around the most menial duties of the farm...