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...How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining! (Summary by Andrea L.)...

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...Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne which was a Victorian best seller and is still sometimes performed as a drama) enjoyed ...

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...out of sight. Early one Sunday, Daddy and Mommy took Shadow for a walk. They walked quite a distance until they reached a lonely stretch of road with woods on one side and a pasture on the other. Daddy noticed that the cattle were already there and since he was wearing red, told Mommy that they had to turn back – and then the fun really started! Shadow suddenly noticed ...

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...A biomass gassifier uses 75% less wood than a camp fire! It takes less than 30 minutes and two empty tins to build one. It is ideal in combination with a hay (wonder) box. We filmed the construction and uploaded it on Youtube (link at end of the booklet). If...

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...ough many thousand acres of Fir timber, and saw many deer running in these woods.’ [To Mrs. Stevenson.] ‘Inverness, July 21 st . ‘I propose going to c... ... has actually seen a park (Anglice, meadow) paled round chiefly with cedar-wood and mahogany from the wreck of a Honduras-built ship; and in one islan... ... Norwegian fashion, with arms, and a canopy overhead,’ and given milk in a wooden dish. These hospitalities attended to, the old lady turned at once t... ...eight, having com- pleted the fixing of the smith’s forge, his vice, and a wooden board or bench, which were also batted to a ledge of the rock, to th... ... the beacon, while the anvils thundered with the rebounding noise of their wooden sup- ports, and formed a curious contrast with the occasional clamou... ...the variety of attitude and posi- tion: while, from the upper part of this wooden house, the volumes of smoke which ascended from the forges gave the ... ...n removing the forge from the top of the building, to which the gangway or wooden bridge gave great facility; and, although it stretched or had a span... ...nd all the weightier articles of the light-room got up to the balcony, the wooden bridge was now to be removed, as it had a very powerful effect upon ...

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...Rich Shapero’s TOO FAR follows a pair of ultra-imaginative six-year-olds, Robbie and Fristeen, through a transformative summer spent exploring the woods behind their remote Alaskan homes. As their family lives become increasingly unstable, the children travel deeper and farther into their private world. The forest—and the gods who inhabit it—becomes their refuge until, ...

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...was a little girl. She lived with her mother and father, in a house near the woods. She was very friendly with the animals in the woods. One evening, ... ... the dark with the firefly. The firefly showed her the way. They went to the woods. They searched and searched, but they couldn’t find anything as big... ...d weaving a beautiful sari. Nikini was very tired after walking all over the woods and not sleeping the whole night. But she was so happy that she did... ...and brought back beautiful flowers to decorate it. The rabbit ran around the woods and brought beautiful colors from flowers, to paint the sari with. ... ...with her friends. 13 14 As they got halfway, a strong wind blew across the woods and it started to rain heavily. They tried their best to protect th...

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...lanned my return home. John E. Richman 2 We’d just come through a small woods, back onto open prairie, when a gust of wind nearly tore my Ste... ... be easy on this white prairie. Maybe I should have stopped back in the last woods. Lord knows how far we’ll have to go now to find anything close ... ...s in without any fuss. As I approached the light, I was hoping to see some woods, but the closer I got, the more it looked like one lone tree. I ... ... I did just that and while Spirit was drinking, I looked around for some more wood. Since there weren’t any other trees, there didn’t seem to be any... ... wood. Since there weren’t any other trees, there didn’t seem to be any more wood in the area. On our way back into the camp it occurred to me that... ...that Jesse’d broken while lifting the wagon might just be the only available wood to keep the fire going. Looked like it might just get us through ... ...e the door behind you.” Nick Burns did as instructed and took a seat on the wooden bench in front of the desk. While the Mayor continued to focus ... ...was locked, but it moved a little when I leaned on it. It seemed more like a wood latch than an iron one, so I leaned harder and it opened. On ente... ...eal dim. I looked around the room to see a big desk in the middle and a big wooden file cabinet on the back wall. I tried the desk drawers, but th...

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...thing suitable for a meal. 3 The Giant Mushroom He searched all through the woods, but could not find anything fit for his brother to eat. He was so ...

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...silent fairies. “How long before they will be missed?” “They are from a deep woods clan. I took them all. It will be a while before any alarm is sound... ... Tables, chairs, and chests, all intricately carved from richly glowing dark wood, furnished the cave. In the shadowed corner, runes carved into the ... ...room and settled into a chair. She leaned her head back against the polished wood and closed her eyes. Peter was an only child and did not understand ... ...ell as her notebook. Spells, known only to Peter, warded the ornately carved wood. Thank God the red leather circle surrounding the rearing unicorn on... ... through your mouth,” she said, glaring at Angus. Delilah’s face was cherry wood-red with the force of her coughing. “Water,” Kelsey ordered. The d... ...ind entered the stifling coach. Across from Regan, Margeaux shifted upon the wooden seat and wiped sweat from her brow. Regan tried to talk the elven ... ...NDELABRAS LINED the center length of an oak table. The honey-hued expanse of wood polished to a soft sheen stretched three-quarters the length of the ... ...t telling time at night? It must be around midnight. He’d hoped to reach the woodcutter’s cottage by now. I knew we’d get lost. The tiny voice in his... ...s pocket and lit the dried grass beneath the twigs. The flames licked at the wood and soon a fire crackled. Zipper fidgeted at the smell of smoke. “Oh...

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... huge and eclectically furnished from the floor to ceiling in oak-finished wood and black and white Italian marble, leather and glass—the tables, the ... ...o.j. and knocked the juice glass over; the balance spilled onto the cherry wood table's surface, quickly spread. Tyler jumped to his feet, reached for... ..., looked at his surroundings. "Why are you parking here?" It was a heavily wooded, tree-lined area on the passenger side and warehouses on the driver'... ...els. Camilla led them down the road a ways, made a detour through the lush woods behind her farmhouse and just off the vast property surrounding it. H... ...!" Kelly chuckled. He had never felt safer than he felt this minute in the woods with this almost perfect stranger by the stream. He had never felt cl... ...his wife's face before he went by his mom to grab his jeep's keys from the wooden key rack hanging on the wall adjacent the door. "Ty, take my car." T... ..."Girl, don't mess with me. Cause I know you don't want me to pull out some wood and start assembling my podium on you." No, Amire certainly didn't wan... ... "Now what?" he asked, straddled a chair, leaning his forearms on the high wooden back. "Now I fix lunch and we eat. Then I'll fix dinner for you to w... ... for the front door. Kelly rushed after her, slammed her palms against the wood, boxed Amire in before she could open the door and either throw Kelly ...

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...he left to dig a warm burrow under a hollow tree stump at the edge of the woods. “I’m s-s-so hungry,” he whistled as he dug. “It would be lovely to h... ...about to give up when he spotted the hollow tree stump at the edge of the woods. “Hurray!” shouted Opossum. “That tree stump will make a perfect shel... ...be lovely to have a soft bed. There are still plenty of dry leaves in the woods. I know! I will carry some leaves from the woods with my tail.” So h... ... carry some leaves from the woods with my tail.” So he went back into the woods to fetch dry leaves to make a bed. Opossum could smell the delicious ... ... Opossum could smell the delicious apple tree on his way back through the woods. “Yummy, apples!” said Opossum. Opossum climbed up the tree to pick t...

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... metallic and tangible warnings of the possibility of alligators strewn in wood, weed, swamp, and brambles, nor the public memory of recent events wh... ...go with me mushroom hunting, daughter, of course, goes out with him in the woods, he expatiating the differences of mushrooms, the differences of tre...

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...were free. She had enjoyed the men in colorful briefs-some who had danced on wooden platforms covering two juxtaposed pool tables to be more into the ... ... wall of books. He regrets that he has not seen her legs slide on the shiny wood of the chair or her thighs rising up to him although imagined action... ...f that she would rake only in her own confined space clearly demarcated by a wooden fence and that such action would involve just a little imitation. ... ...he owl?" She was anxious that it not be the owl that had nested itself in a wooden flower pot that hung beneath her window. "No, your owl is okay I g... ...er the holy earth" --Iliad Chapter Twenty-six A colonial sofa with an arched wooden back; the dark drapes absorbing the light that would have saturate... ...thers she did some aerobics according to the movements of the teacher on his wooden platform and then, exhausted, she lay in the shade of the trees. ... ...w opulent skyscrapers and she meandered through labyrinths of tackey tin and wooden cobbled shacks along the river. She saw two young boys with Butch... ...ents like butterfly nets. She watched the dog catchers dump the hounds into wooden crates, uniformed teenagers in sidewalk restaurants enjoying the p... ...g and boy inconspicuously. Outside the window there was the same rectangular wooden container where, at the trailer, she had planted a flowerbed which...

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...d her intolerance of the man. “I could chew straighter and faster through wood than he can with his ancient bow saw. He avoids power tools like the ... ...maintained with small shrubs lining the newly wired fence and whitewashed wooden garage. At the far end of the block were several young apple and pl... ...tment showed in her expression while resting her head against the painted wood of the door. Having no choice, she called out to Pop for help. With e... ...e, as he did like to 68 read; however, usually it was on the subjects of wood grains, joists and roof pitches. “See, God knows what you need before... ... he attended as a child with its old cathedral ceilings and uncomfortable wooden pews. He was surprised at the amount of people who attended the mor... ...f the highest quality from the napkins and cutlery to the highly polished wooden dance floor in the centre. Large chandeliers hung from a high roof ... ...hris.” Sandy was heard, as was a second knock. Leaning up against the new wood, Chris thought for a moment. “Could you please get me my dressing gown... ...the coffee table. Lily opened her handbag and took out a photo in a small wooden frame. “I want you to have this.” Lily handed it to Chris. The phot... ...ued to wrestle with him. Chris returned to the lounge with a large carved wooden jewellery box. Her guest joined her on the couch. “Lily, I don’t kn...

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...f the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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...ire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbri... ...ly HALFWAY DOWN a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various poin... ...ring plaster, composed of lime, pebbles, and bits of glass, with which the woodwork of the walls was overspread. On every side the seven gables pointe... ...hrew a shadowy and thoughtful gloom into the lower rooms. Carved globes of wood were affixed under the jutting stories. Little spiral rods of iron bea... ...as still an unbroken wilderness. Where the old land surveyor had put down woods, lakes, and rivers, they marked out the cleared spaces, and dotted th... ...s by habitations of modern date, they were mostly small, built entirely of wood, and typical of the most plodding unifor- mity of common life. Doubtl... ...ble was now precisely on a line with it. On either side extended a ruinous wooden fence of open lattice-work, through which could be seen a grassy yar... ...was a low-studded room, with a beam across the ceiling, panelled with dark wood, and having a large chimney-piece, set round with pictured tiles, but ... ...erhaps, 35 Hawthorne Indian meal. There was likewise a square box of pine-wood, full of soap in bars; also, another of the same size, in which were t...

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...ng else straight. He was full of myster- ies. If he wanted to draw Charter Wood he would take his hounds out of the street at Egham directly in the ot... ... not be a Liberal,— and his son, as the first recreant Palliser,—was worm- wood to him! As he stood there he more than once clenched his fist in eage... ... thing that I expect to have said when I take a walk with a young man in a wood, is not that the tomfoolery of love-making?’ She stopped and looked a... ...y the darkness of 270 The Duke’s Children its waters and the gloom of the woods around it. This is the country seat of Earl Grex,—which however he ha... ... along the high-road as far as the post-office, and had turned through the wood and reached a seat whence there was a beautiful view down upon the Arc... ...re going. The last rose still lingers on the bush, but it is the last. The woodland walks are still pleasant to the feet, but caution is heard on ever... ...de by the coming winter. The park at Custins, which was spacious, had many wood- land walks attached to it, from which, through vistas of the timber, ... ...stant glimpses of the sea were caught. Within half a mile of the house the woods were reached, and within a mile the open sea was in sight,—and yet th... ...e Duke and Mr Boncassen with Lady Mary and Isabel, were all walking in the woods to- gether. And it so happened when they were at a little distance fr...

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...nd the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire: 8 And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay th... ...aron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 9 But his inwards and his... ... with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 13 But he shall wash the ... ...t divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fi... ...ons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour... ...mp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt. 13 And i... ...shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and ... ...they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any wo... ... 13:54 14:4 that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 And the priest shall command that one of t...