A Year Down Yonder

Question 1

Me, a city girl, in a town that didn’t even have a picture show.

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Question 2

I’d been growing like a weed.

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Question 3

She had one blue eye and one green.

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Question 4

Instead, you untied her horse and slung her boots around its neck and she has to walk home.

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Question 5

I can’t fight all your battles for you, but I can give you a level start.

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Question 6

We no sooner saw the first boy than the invisible wire caught him at the ankle.

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Question 7

She drew out of her apron pocket quite another knife, the one she’d found on the back walk by the privy.

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Question 8

A turkey shoot was bound to be outdoors, and my nose was just now thawing.

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Question 9

The tree reeled in shock, and pecans rained.

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Question 10

When the tractor hit bark, it bounced back and the engine died.

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Question 11

In short, she got more than a dime off everybody, except from those she knew couldn’t pay more.

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Question 12

We better bank all this money in coffee cans for safekeeping.

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Question 13

I went out with her many a December night when the snow was on the ground.

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Question 14

I began to want to be there with her, to make sure she’d come safely home.

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Question 15

Still, one day after school I found her poring over mail-order catalogues.

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Question 16

I shifted my crowned head to see in the spotlit manger a real live baby, red as a beet, punching the air with tiny fists.

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Question 17

Since the newspaper had announced a valentine exchange, she thought she’d better fill in with a valentine of her own on everybody’s desk.

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Question 18

In the kitchen the tarts were laid out on cookie sheets, little works of art, each and every one.

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Question 19

Some nights she’d hear that faint thumping sound from the attic, and she didn’t like it.

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Question 20

She provided a later so he could use the attic for an artist’s studio

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Question 21

I’m falling behind in math

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Question 22

And she couldn’t shake that snake for all the shimmying in the world.

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Question 23

We saw the snake drop off her just as she left our property.

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Question 24

I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.

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Question 25

The siren on the town water tower suddenly wailed.

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Question 26

Everybody but me knew you always shelter in the southwest corner of the cellar.

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Question 27

The barn stood but there wasn’t a leaf on his pecan tree

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Question 28

What would happen if I wrote to you from the U of I?

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Question 29

She had eyes in the back of her heart

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Question 30

TRUNK

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Question 31

TRAIN

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Question 32

PORTABLE RADIO

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Question 33

PRIVY

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Question 34

PIE

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Question 35

PUNKIN

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Question 36

PECAN

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Question 37

TIN CAN

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Question 38

COBHOUSE

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Question 39

POCKET KNIFE

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Question 40

GUNNYSACK

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Question 41

TRACTOR

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