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=Lesson 19 - The Endless Steppe= http://quizlet.com/4521586/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-19-flash-cards/

We found a place to stand and, to my surprise, without feeling the least but self-conscious, Immediately held up my mother's slip, the lacy pink silk blowing in the breeze. In a second, we were surrounded: Where were we from? Where did we live? What did Grandmother do? How old was I? They were exceedingly friendly and frankly inquisitive, these native Siberians. We answered the questions as fast as we could, with Grandmother doing most of the talking, since she knew Russian well and I hardly spoke it. We coaxed our potential customers to note the beauty of the lace, the fact that there were 16, //sixteen//, ribs in the umbrella. How much? Forty rubles. //__Forty rubles__//? There was a roar of laughter. All right, thirty-eight rubles. . . I caught Grandmother's eye; we smiled at each other; we were born traders and we were having a marvelous time. It was, in fact, the happiest time I had had in a long, long time. The guns, the bombs of World War II were thousands of miles away and at the market place so was the labor camp close by. All around me children were giggling over nothing., girls were showing off their dolls-what if they were made of rags?-and boys were wrestling. These children were just like the children in Vilna, Hunger, fatigue, sorrow, and fright were forgotten: haggling was a wonderfully engrossing game. Rough hands that had scrounged in the earth for potatoes, and been frostbitten more than once fingered the silk, sometimes as if it were a rosary, sometimes as more often to test it for durability. If an egg was around fifteen rubles, how much should a skil slip with hand-drawn lace be? Hand drawn, mule drawn, what difference if you couldn't eat it? We all joined in the laughter. I don't remember who bought Father's shirt and Grandmother's umbrella, but the slip was finally bough by a young woman with lots of organge rouge on her cheedks.

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=Lesson 20 - The Phantom Tollbooth= http://quizlet.com/4639868/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-20-flash-cards/

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=Lesson 21 - Let the Circle Be Unbroken= http://quizlet.com/4800226/vocabu-lit-book-f-lesson-21-flash-cards/