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I was aimen to whittle a basket out a this hicker nut I found, to kind a pass th time.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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"I just git me a hicker nut hull, with the print where a squrl's been a cuttin ', and rub it in the shot, and when I fire, don't keer which way I takes sight, the shot goes right arter the squrl what cut the nut, and all I got to do is to look roun' and see what tree he's a gwine to fall from."
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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We picked up a hitch-hicker and dropped him off in
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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She paused, ax uplifted by the old one, but the ax came slowly back to her shoulder, and she smiled at the old hickory, “You’d be good an tough,” she said, “an yer heart wood’s dead, but I’ll leave you fer seed an hicker nuts fer th squirrels an my youngens.”
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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