Home is where the Heart is: "Kent County's Own Pioneer Story" Based on the Life of Xantippe Holden Nelson, January 13, 1852-May 30, 1942 |
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... pail in the other . I still couldn't see the house . I started pray- ing " Lord help me back to the children and safety , and take care of Edd and the rest of the hunters . " All of a sudden , I bumped the milk pail and spilled some of ...
... pail in the other . I still couldn't see the house . I started pray- ing " Lord help me back to the children and safety , and take care of Edd and the rest of the hunters . " All of a sudden , I bumped the milk pail and spilled some of ...
Page 41
... pail for another trip , and hoped the storm was over . When I opened the door , I discovered it was still snowing . As I looked over the high drifts I knew I had to do a lot of shoveling to reach the barn . The snow was not so heavy and ...
... pail for another trip , and hoped the storm was over . When I opened the door , I discovered it was still snowing . As I looked over the high drifts I knew I had to do a lot of shoveling to reach the barn . The snow was not so heavy and ...
Page 68
... pail so if his garden didn't survive I could see that the sand pile would interest him . I expected that that was the way it would end up , a garden - sandpile . The school at Harbor Springs was out the next Friday . Next week the new ...
... pail so if his garden didn't survive I could see that the sand pile would interest him . I expected that that was the way it would end up , a garden - sandpile . The school at Harbor Springs was out the next Friday . Next week the new ...
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arrived asked baby Jay baked barn beautiful boat boys breakfast brought build busy cabin door cake calf Carlson Chicago chickens Chief White Cloud chores clothes cold cook Cross Village daughter decided Dick and Dolly dinner Easter Edd told eggs farther north father Fawn fire fireplace getting glad Harbor Springs haul heifer hens Hilda horses Indian neighbors Kent County kettle knew knitting Lake Michigan Little Bert live livestock logs looked lots lumber Mackinaw City Mama maple sugar Matt Murphy meat milk mission Molly Morning Star mother needed never Northern Michigan nuts pail papoose ready Rose Murphy sawmill shoveling sleep snow snowshoes soon squaws started stay Sunday supplies syrup Tippy tired told Edd took trees venison wagon wanted warm warmer week wigwam wild turkey winter woods