Charles Asbury Stephens Books

A Busy Year At The Old Squire

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Charles Asbury Stephens

Excerpts: [... to find them. They were a yoke of sparked oxen-red and white in contrasting patches. Each had wide-spread horns and a star in his face. Bright ...... the smoke of the fire under the kettle in which he heated water for scalding out the casks. The first hint we had that things were going ...... tallow, he put them in what he called a fox bed, of oat chaff, behind that old barn. The ...]
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Left On Labrador

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Charles Asbury Stephens

Excerpts: [... that we could. Has it ever occurred to any of you that we none of us know anything about sailing a vessel.-anything to speak of, I mean. Kit inquired. We ...... hundred pounds corn-meal, four dollars. Then there were a score of other little necessaries, amounting to near fifty dollars in all, a bill of two ...... we had a fair breeze from the south-east. All sail was made, and we ...]
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