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The hard winter
- The University Press of Kentucky
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121 The hard winter Cassandra Magruder, 1789 The cold came early and never went. The ground and sky filled up with it. The river froze too thick to break and each night rang like solid bronze. Turkeys froze and fell from their roosts. Deer died in their beds. Buffalo starved in the fields. We used our axes on the pond. We filled the floor with Indian grass. We fed the fire with logs. We ate our cow. We ate our dogs and boiled their hides. Then, one of the children died. ...
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