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    The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life
    The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life
    The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life
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    The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life

    By Velda Allis Eddy and American Sunday-School Union

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life - Velda Allis Eddy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life, by American Sunday School Union

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      Title: The Allis Family; or, Scenes of Western Life

      Author: American Sunday School Union

      Posting Date: September 26, 2012 [EBook #8083] Release Date: May, 2005 First Posted: June 13, 2003

      Language: English

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      THE ALLIS FAMILY;

      OR,

      SCENES OF WESTERN LIFE

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      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858 by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

      * * * * *

      No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz.: Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and, Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object.

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      THE ALLIS FAMILY.

      Mr. and Mrs. Allis lived away out West, on a broad prairie, where Mr. Allis was busily engaged in making a farm. Perhaps some of my young readers, who have always been accustomed to see farms already made, will not understand what I mean by "making a farm;" and I will try to tell them.

      First of all, let them try to fancy a large meadow, either perfectly flat or a little uneven, as large, perhaps, as can be measured with the eye, and sometimes without a single tree, or scarcely a clump of bushes. There will be no fences in sight, and sometimes no streams of water, but the surface of the ground is covered with high, coarse grass. This is what Western people call a prairie.

      In order to make a farm, this ground must be ploughed, or, as Western people say, broken up. Some of the children would smile, I think, if they were to see a regular breaking team before a breaking plough. This plough is quite unlike that which is used in the older States, and it takes five, six, and sometimes as many as eight yoke of oxen to draw it. This ploughing is usually done in June. After ploughing, the ground must be enclosed, and then it is ready for the seed.

      Some people make curious mistakes when they undertake to make a new farm. Mr. Allis was one of these persons. He arrived at the little

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