1 "I haven't heard Frank laugh so much for ever so long," said Grace to Amy, as they sat discussing dolls and making tea sets out of the acorn cups.
2 He that is nourished by the acorns he picked up under an oak, or the apples he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated them to himself.
3 It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c.
4 He that gathered a hundred bushels of acorns or apples, had thereby a property in them, they were his goods as soon as gathered.
5 "I guess the princess gave him a posy, and opened the gate after a while," said Laurie, smiling to himself, as he threw acorns at his tutor.
6 Thus then were they shut up squealing, and Circe threw them some acorns and beech masts such as pigs eat, but Eurylochus hurried back to tell me about the sad fate of our comrades.
7 Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
8 My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
9 It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now--ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons--and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.
10 On other days a small amount of milk, hickory nuts, roasted acorns and yams.