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WATER SCORINGS, WASHED PALEST BLUE, SCRATCH-HEN EGGS and TALKED MY ARM OFF.

0 Hi, someone to help me with these from Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"?:02br
00 'Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and WATER SCORINGS and small outcrops. (...) The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket WASHED PALEST BLUE with lighter places at knees and elbows. (...) "I was set for some SCRATCH-HEN EGGS" (...) An old woman gave me the drink of water I asked for and nearly TALKED MY ARM OFF. She was hungry to talk, ...' Thanks in advance, Jo. 0-
  

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: 'Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and WATER SCORINGS and small outcrops. ) The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket WASHED PALEST BLUE with lighter places at knees and elbows. ) An old woman gave me the drink of water I asked for and nearly TALKED MY ARM OFF.

  • : 'Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and WATER SCORINGS and small outcrops.
  • ) The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket WASHED PALEST BLUE with lighter places at knees and elbows.
  • ) An old woman gave me the drink of water I asked for and nearly TALKED MY ARM OFF.
  • 12blockquote 10WATER SCORINGS Gullies where streams have worn away the soil02br 02br 00WASHED PALEST BLUE Like denim jeans - the blue has washed out leaving the fabric pale blue02br 02br 00 SCRATCH-HEN EGGS" eggs from hens running around in the yard scratching the soil02br 02br 00TALKED MY ARM OFF she talked without stopping 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hi, someone to help me with these from Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"?: 'Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and WATER SCORINGS and small outcrops. (...) The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket WASHED PALEST BLUE with lighter places at knees and
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