Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... abundantly able to satisfy those who are only content with graphic or startling narratives , or who most delight to " sup on horrors . " We refer to the ' Mandarin massacre of 1841 , which left this lovely village desolate . The Indians ...
... abundantly able to satisfy those who are only content with graphic or startling narratives , or who most delight to " sup on horrors . " We refer to the ' Mandarin massacre of 1841 , which left this lovely village desolate . The Indians ...
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... abundant need of all their energies in improving their own land , cheered by the thought that every week's work , and all their efforts to economize and save , though at first hard , are but preparing the way for a comfortable home for ...
... abundant need of all their energies in improving their own land , cheered by the thought that every week's work , and all their efforts to economize and save , though at first hard , are but preparing the way for a comfortable home for ...
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... down to Florida and enter a " homestead . " Erect- ing a rough but comfortable shelter , and furnishing it with what they would once have thought were worth- less scraps that remained out of former abundance , and 18 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
... down to Florida and enter a " homestead . " Erect- ing a rough but comfortable shelter , and furnishing it with what they would once have thought were worth- less scraps that remained out of former abundance , and 18 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
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Mrs. H. W. Beecher. less scraps that remained out of former abundance , and such articles as their skill or ingenuity could manufacture , they prepared a neat and pleasant abode . In this work the women of the family employed every ...
Mrs. H. W. Beecher. less scraps that remained out of former abundance , and such articles as their skill or ingenuity could manufacture , they prepared a neat and pleasant abode . In this work the women of the family employed every ...
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... abundant and remunerative harvest . What had wrought this change ? What had made this oasis in the desert ? Three years before a feeble , gray - haired man , over whom the doctors had pro- nounced sentence of death , resolved to make ...
... abundant and remunerative harvest . What had wrought this change ? What had made this oasis in the desert ? Three years before a feeble , gray - haired man , over whom the doctors had pro- nounced sentence of death , resolved to make ...
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551 BROADWAY abundant acres American Painters APPLETON attractive beautiful Beecher blackberries bring build cattle cleared climate Cloth comfortable home courage crops cultivation desire destroyed easily EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES English feeble flowers forest frost fruits Garden of Eden give graft grass guava hardships history of Florida I'ze industry John's John's River kind labor lady Lake land large number Letters from Florida lichens lovely lustrated luxury malarial fevers Mark's ment morning needed North Northern once orange orange-culture orange-groves orange-trees Palatka palmettoes piney wood pioneer plantation planted pleasure poor potatoes productive promise PUBLISHERS raised ready rejuvenated rich river Rollestown secure sensible settled sick sketches of fifty skill sour stumps South spring suffering sweet sweet potatoes things tion trees truth vegetables villages volume waste White Mountains wild wilderness winter wise woods York York Evening Post York Observer
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