 | Samuel Kercheval - 1833 - 504 էջ
...tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth' of the potatoe tops, pumpkin and squash vines, hoping from day to...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears ! still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into jonny-cakes... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - 1833 - 452 էջ
...tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth of the potatoe tops, pumpkin and squash vines, hoping from day to...them ! What a jubilee when we were permitted to pull tho young corn for roasting ears ! still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made... | |
 | Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 էջ
...brought them all with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks tuo soon, so that for that length of time we had to live...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into johnny cakes... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 էջ
...was but small, and he brought them all with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks too soon, so that for that...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so, when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into jonny-cakes... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 էջ
...was but small, and he brought them all with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks too soon, so that for that...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for rousting ears. Still more so, when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into ionny-cakes... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1855 - 908 էջ
...tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth of the potatoe tops, pumpkin and squash vines, hoping from day to...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so when it had acquired a sufficient hardness to be made into johnny cakes,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 592 էջ
...family was but small, and he brought it ali with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks too soon, so that for that...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so when it had acquired a sufficient hardness to be made into johnny-cakes... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 էջ
...was but small, and he brought them all with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks too soon, so that for that...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so, when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into jonny-cakes... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 1172 էջ
...was but small, and he brought them all with him. The Indian meal which he brought over the mountain was expended six weeks too soon, so that for that...when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears. Still more so, when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into jonny-cakes... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1872 - 396 էջ
...lean venison and the breast of wild turkeys, we were taught to call bread. I remember how narrowly we children watched the growth of the potato tops, pumpkin,...get something to answer in the place of bread. How deliciou? was the taste of the young potatoes, when we got them ! What a jubilee when we were permitted... | |
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This artifice did not succeed very well. After living in this way for some time we became sickly, the stomach seemed to be always empty and tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth of the potato tops, pumpkin... 
