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* Some of you may recognize this as a reference to a Donald Duck comic where Scrooge McDuck has a giant corn-crib full of money and takes regular swims in the bills and coins.
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As soon as the birds were dipped into the water and taken out steaming, the dog set out for home, where they found him, upon their return, hiding under a corn-crib.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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Whither he went or what he caught, there was no sound to tell, until, suddenly, one quick squeak way over beside the corn-crib might have notified a farmer that another mouse was gone.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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The hospital was set up near Mr. Apgar's corn-crib.
The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm Laura Lee Hope
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But he knew well enough that mice visited the corn-crib, and where their favorite runways came out into the open.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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Nickey, who was dressed and sitting on the top of the corn-crib whittling a stick.
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It is placed in a roofless corn-crib, on a bed of hay, with food before it; and Fabens works briskly for half
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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At last, when about to confess himself defeated, he walked to the further end of the corn-crib, and there, in an old hogshead, he found the fellow lying low.
The Art of Soul-Winning J.W. Mahood
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It was dark by the time we got into Fairview, but we contrived to get our horse within the stable and that unfortunate hound into a corn-crib, in which durance he howled so vigorously that the wild winds which whistled and shrieked around the barn could not be heard for him.
Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson
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But the owner of the corn-crib was asleep, and dreaming, more than likely, that the cat, which was at that moment disturbing a pair of meadow bobolinks, was somehow wholly to be thanked for the scarcity of mice about the place.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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