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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... side by side . Then she heaped it over with earth , making it into a bed . With warm days the sprouts showed through . Monroe pulled up the sprouts and dropped them by hand in the furrows he had made . My job was to cover the root end ...
... side by side . Then she heaped it over with earth , making it into a bed . With warm days the sprouts showed through . Monroe pulled up the sprouts and dropped them by hand in the furrows he had made . My job was to cover the root end ...
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... side with a twine ball in his hand , his team ready to run . " Ant'ny , " he called . " Over , " the boys on the other side answered . The boy threw the ball and started around the house . A boy on the other side caught it and hit the ...
... side with a twine ball in his hand , his team ready to run . " Ant'ny , " he called . " Over , " the boys on the other side answered . The boy threw the ball and started around the house . A boy on the other side caught it and hit the ...
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... side of a fence the grass was dry and brown , on the other , watered and green . On the green side there were big shade trees and sprays of water turning slowly in the sun . It was the prettiest pasture I had ever seen . Men were ...
... side of a fence the grass was dry and brown , on the other , watered and green . On the green side there were big shade trees and sprays of water turning slowly in the sun . It was the prettiest pasture I had ever seen . Men were ...
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