A Year Down Yonder Flashcards
Me, a city girl, in a town that didn’t even have a picture show.
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I’d been growing like a weed.
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She had one blue eye and one green.
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Instead, you untied her horse and slung her boots around its neck and she has to walk home.
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I can’t fight all your battles for you, but I can give you a level start.
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We no sooner saw the first boy than the invisible wire caught him at the ankle.
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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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A turkey shoot was bound to be outdoors, and my nose was just now thawing.
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The tree reeled in shock, and pecans rained.
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When the tractor hit bark, it bounced back and the engine died.
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In short, she got more than a dime off everybody, except from those she knew couldn’t pay more.
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We better bank all this money in coffee cans for safekeeping.
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I went out with her many a December night when the snow was on the ground.
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I began to want to be there with her, to make sure she’d come safely home.
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Still, one day after school I found her poring over mail-order catalogues.
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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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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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In the kitchen the tarts were laid out on cookie sheets, little works of art, each and every one.
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Some nights she’d hear that faint thumping sound from the attic, and she didn’t like it.
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She provided a later so he could use the attic for an artist’s studio
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I’m falling behind in math
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And she couldn’t shake that snake for all the shimmying in the world.
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We saw the snake drop off her just as she left our property.
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I was too young to know how much a dangerous man interests a good woman.
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The siren on the town water tower suddenly wailed.
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Everybody but me knew you always shelter in the southwest corner of the cellar.
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The barn stood but there wasn’t a leaf on his pecan tree
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What would happen if I wrote to you from the U of I?
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She had eyes in the back of her heart
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TRUNK
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TRAIN
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PORTABLE RADIO
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PRIVY
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PIE
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PUNKIN
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PECAN
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TIN CAN
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COBHOUSE
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POCKET KNIFE
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GUNNYSACK
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TRACTOR
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