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way in which she handles the axe left no room for doubt, nor did the result, as bone and grisle and flesh were cut through. She appealed to me because she was a woman of moral force (if moral force means first of all self-preservation_) as well as of pl??? force. The average backwoods-woman or back-country woman is either a sloven or more commonly a more pathetic site because of overwork and poor living, and most often because her vital system is exhausted by excessive child-bearing.
Camp in Long Valley: no tan oak since leaving Stanley Ridge. No redwood. Nine bark here: its clusters of red pods attracted attention of a young farmer who wanted its name.
_moral strength against the excesses of man, too apparent in many cases
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