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... woman , the first wife , and herself brought food to the guests , basswood bowls of fish soup , square birchbark dishes of parched corn and maple sugar , deer meat boiled with corn , dishes of smoked rice , dishes of meenin , the small ...
... woman , the first wife , and herself brought food to the guests , basswood bowls of fish soup , square birchbark dishes of parched corn and maple sugar , deer meat boiled with corn , dishes of smoked rice , dishes of meenin , the small ...
Page 121
... woman , to do the chores of the men who had gone down the river , and to- gether they filled the mangers with hay and , in the dark- ness , milked the cows and brought the full pails into the kitchen . They strained the milk into stone ...
... woman , to do the chores of the men who had gone down the river , and to- gether they filled the mangers with hay and , in the dark- ness , milked the cows and brought the full pails into the kitchen . They strained the milk into stone ...
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... Woman of the Wild Rose , as Charlotte was , could not but give one a secret satisfaction like that of wearing a beautiful pendant , a love token perhaps , on one's breast , buttoned out of sight . Eliza Johnston was the Woman of the ...
... Woman of the Wild Rose , as Charlotte was , could not but give one a secret satisfaction like that of wearing a beautiful pendant , a love token perhaps , on one's breast , buttoned out of sight . Eliza Johnston was the Woman of the ...
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