 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 lehte
...never repaid the unceasing toil of the owner. At the age of thirteen the boy assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm. Yet before the close of his sixteenth year he had managed to read a considerable amount of English... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 430 lehte
...never repaid the unceasing toil of the owner. At the age of thirteen the boy assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm. Yet before the close of his sixteenth year he had managed to read a considerable amount of English... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength,...farm. My brother, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm, for we had no hired... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - 322 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength, and rather beyond it, in the labors of the farm. My brother, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop of corn, for... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength,...farm. My brother, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop of corn, and at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm, for we had no hired... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1893 - 354 lehte
...Burness soon fell into difficulties, in spite of the utmost economy. " My brother," wrote Gilbert, " at the age of thirteen assisted in thrashing the crop...at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm, for we had no hired servant, male or female." There were then seven children in all, and the elder... | |
 | 1893 - 208 lehte
...meat was a stranger in the I house ; while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the I utmost of their strength — and rather beyond it — in the labours of the I farm. My brother, at the age of thirteen, assisted in threshing the crop I of corn, and at fifteen,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength,...at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm, for we had no hired servant, male or female. The anguish of mind we felt at our tender years under... | |
 | Gabriel Setoun - 1896 - 168 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength,...at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm ; for we had no hired servant, male or female. The anguish of mind we felt at our tender years under... | |
 | Gabriel Setoun - 1896 - 166 lehte
...sparingly. For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength,...at fifteen was the principal labourer on the farm; for we had no hired servant, male or female. The anguish of mind we felt at our tender years under... | |
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For several years butcher's meat was a stranger in the house, while all the members of the family exerted themselves to the utmost of their strength, and rather beyond it, in the labours of the . farm. My brother, at the age of thirteen , assisted in... 
