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pearmain : name of a " summer " apple in New Jersey ; of a winter 

 apple in this section of Massachusetts. 

 garden of box : the box bush. 



bleeding-hearts : an old-fashioned flower ; a low shrub with pend- 

 ent blossoms shaped like a heart. 

 creeper : the Virginia creeper, or woodbine. 



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" template " stove : from template or templet, a strip of sheet iron 

 used in boiler-making. A simple long stove made of a single 

 piece of sheet iron, bent like an inverted U, and riveted to a cast 

 iron bottom. It had a single door in the front ; and burnt pieces 

 of wood about two feet long. Often called " tenplate " stove. 



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seven of us alone: seven brothers and sisters in the writer's family. 

 flats : Describe the outside appearance of a city " flat," and also 

 the inside if you have ever been in a flat. Is it like a farmhouse ? 

 kitchenette : What kind of a kitchen is a kitcheneMe f 

 neither a farm nor a city home : By which the writer means a farm 

 in the ordinary sense of land cultivated for a living. His is a home 

 only, with several acres around it, largely in woods and grass. 



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" Bucksy " • the invented name of a little Indian hero about whom 

 the writer tells stories to his little boys. 



CHAPTER VII 



TO THE TEACHER 



Suggestions as to the practical uses to which this chapter can be 

 put may be gathered from the notes to chapter IV and chapter XII, 

 each of which is similar to this one. 



CHAPTER VIII 



TO THE TEACHER 



This chapter and the next (chapter ix) should be taken together 

 as a single study of the provision of nature against the severity of 

 winter's cold, chapter viii being a detailed account of one creature's 



