Food Saving and Sharing: Telling how the Older Children of America May Help Save from Famine Their Comrades in Allied Lands Across the Sea |
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Allies American apple Argentina Armenia army Austria-Hungary autocracy babies beans beets Belgians Belgium body bones booth boys butter cane carried cattle cents cereals cheese common table contain cooked corn cottage cheese crop daily bread dried eaten eggs England Europe farmers feed fight fish flour Food Administration food to send France fruits and vegetables FUEL VALUE garden Germans grain grow hearty food honey hungry keep kernel kind of sugar kinds of food land large quantities legumes less maple sugar market basket meat milk millions mineral matter neutral countries oleomargarine one-fourth OUNCES peas plants plenty Poland pork potato protein protein foods railroads raised Russia save food SAVING AND SHARING Serbia ships sirup soldiers starch starving sugar beets supply sure sweet things THOMAS FOGARTY CHAPTER United vitamines wheat wisely worth remembering
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Page 98 - Little drops of water, Little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land.
Page 29 - Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard ! Heap high the golden corn ! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn ! Let other lands, exulting, glean The apple from the pine, The orange from its glossy green, The cluster from the vine ; We better love the hardy gift Our rugged vales bestow, To cheer us when the storm shall drift Our harvest-fields with snow.
Page 98 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.
Page 55 - And when I see it coming, warm and white, I'm in such a hurry that I whimper and whine For pure joy, and the Cure smiles a bit, watching me, and says I'm the hope of France; But how can a chap be the hope of France when he can't get enough food to have a chance?
Page 73 - This is by a still younger child : Dear America: I thank you because you sent great big boats over the great sea — cat-boats — rice, corn, bacon, stockings, clothing, and shoes. I know that you like the little Belgians, and I like you, too. ACHIEL MAES.