The Awakening Land: I. The Trees; II. The Fields; III. The TownKnopf, 1966 - 630 páginas As a small girl, Sayward Wheeler and her family walk from Pennsylvania to the wilderness of the Ohio valley where they suffer many hardships and witness the rapid development of the area. |
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... feet into the brush . Sometimes Sulie or Genny ran in after her . Sometimes she went alone . The family bobbed on in single file and in a lick or two the forest had swallowed them up . While she waited here with the green leaves ...
... feet into the brush . Sometimes Sulie or Genny ran in after her . Sometimes she went alone . The family bobbed on in single file and in a lick or two the forest had swallowed them up . While she waited here with the green leaves ...
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... feet had packed it and like human feet it was never still , turning and dodging to miss the butts of the big trees . It pleased her to catch up to the family and hear the young ones crowing and quarreling over the droppings of some fox ...
... feet had packed it and like human feet it was never still , turning and dodging to miss the butts of the big trees . It pleased her to catch up to the family and hear the young ones crowing and quarreling over the droppings of some fox ...
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... feet . The woods air smelled fermented as cider . And the hill hooters of a night tried to raise the dead . Not that the young ones minded it . They were drunk on fall . It was hardly daylight till they piled out of the leanto to hunt ...
... feet . The woods air smelled fermented as cider . And the hill hooters of a night tried to raise the dead . Not that the young ones minded it . They were drunk on fall . It was hardly daylight till they piled out of the leanto to hunt ...
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Achsa asked better boat body brother cabin called Chancey close coming couldn't dark deep didn't door eyes face father feel feet felt fetched fire folks front gave Genny girl give gone ground Guerdon hair half hand hard head hear heard hold Huldah Indian Jake keep knew leaves light lived looked Louie mighty mind morning mother moved never night once pappy Portius reckoned Resolve river Rosa Sayward seemed seen side sister sound stand started stay stood stopped strange Sulie talk tell thing thought till told took town trees turned voice wait walk wanted watched Wheeler wild woman wondered woods Worth Wyitt young