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They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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In the corner of the yard were hickory trees, and black walnut, and beyond the fence the hill fell away past the barns, the corn-cribs, and the tobacco-house to a brook — a divine place to wade, with deep, dark, forbidden pools.
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Soon as I could get Buck down by the corn-cribs under the trees by ourselves, I says:
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We have, as you know, the meat-houses and corn-cribs, with the usual store of provisions.
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Even in winter they look comfortable, in their sheltered barn-yard, surrounded by huge stacks of hay or long ranges of corn-cribs, chewing the cud of contentment, and untroubled with any thought of the inevitable journey to Brighton.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Under the Treaty we have imported Canadian and Morgan horses, oats for their support, barley of superior quality for our ale, lustre-wool for our alpacas, and boards and clapboards for our houses and for the fences and corn-cribs of our Western prairies.
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