This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... ain't caught Come in free . I was the smallest one playing , and “ it ” so often that I was run ragged . Once when Monroe was counting for me , I went farther into the woods than I had gone before and crawled inside a brush pile . It ...
... ain't caught Come in free . I was the smallest one playing , and “ it ” so often that I was run ragged . Once when Monroe was counting for me , I went farther into the woods than I had gone before and crawled inside a brush pile . It ...
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... ain't we ? " Old Betty stopped carding . " Worse'n we ever seen since . " " We could tell you , " Old Parson said ... ain't right yet , " I said . He laughed . " Ain't I know that ? I said that to myself , seeing them shoats y'all got ...
... ain't we ? " Old Betty stopped carding . " Worse'n we ever seen since . " " We could tell you , " Old Parson said ... ain't right yet , " I said . He laughed . " Ain't I know that ? I said that to myself , seeing them shoats y'all got ...
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... ain't got nobody big enough to do it . " I told her , and he came the next day on his way from church , riding his mule , wearing his black hat and suit , and carrying his Bible in his hand . My mother and grandmother had figured out ...
... ain't got nobody big enough to do it . " I told her , and he came the next day on his way from church , riding his mule , wearing his black hat and suit , and carrying his Bible in his hand . My mother and grandmother had figured out ...
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