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Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters I–IV

ask lief of anybody  ask permission of anyone.

grain elevators  tall warehouses, often cylindrical, for collecting, storing, and discharging grain.

to husk corn  to remove the dry outer covering of an ear of corn.

she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the threshers  Ambrosch hired out his sister to help farmers with their harvest.

worsted  a smooth, firmly twisted thread or yarn made from long-staple wool combed to make the fibers lie in the same direction.

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