Flicka the Filly Chooses Wild Wyoming Yearling
Ten year old Ken McLaughlin picks the filly of a notorious mare Rocket on the Wyoming ranch. His father, a retired army officer, frets over Ken’s schooling and his choice but admires the boy’s care for Flicka after a jump attempt injures the animal. McLaughlin remains convinced Flicka is trouble, resisting his son’s bond with the horse.
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Ken McLaughlin
Wyoming
Rocket
Ken
Flicka
Corral
McLaughlin
Gus
Rob
Howard
Taggert
Nell
Dad
Rennie
Flicka the filly bonds with Ken as halter breaking ends in surprise
Ken watches Flicka heal and trust him as McLaughlin guides a novel halter break in the Calf Pasture. A looming risk from her leg infection prompts veterinary care and a ten dollar bill scene sharpens the family’s finances and lessons.
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Gus
McLaughlin
Ken
Tim
Flicka
Preparing for Postwar Life and a Self Reliant Future
Kathleen Norris urges readers to organize affairs now for a secure old age and to plan for peace time employment shifts after the war. Kate Marvin shares a tale of prudent steps, including debt avoidance, converting home into apartments, and buying small farms to provide income for sons returning from service.
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America
Bill Brown
Mother Brown
Sally
Jane
Bob
Kate Marvin
Kate
Dad
Pedro Harbor
Sister
Wartime thrift tied to peacetime security urging thrift and planning
Kathleen Norris urges thrifty living despite higher wartime earnings and stresses planning for old age and postwar adjustment. She shares a family effort story of three sailors and three farms as a homecoming gift to when they return.
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Kathleen Noreris
Living room upgrades with washstand modification by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes giving plain washstands or dressers a modern look by adding open shelves and a painted baseboard. She shows a wall decoration diagram using flowery chintz remnants and suggests varnishing an old frame to resemble oil painting.
Anime style Quiz Prompt Ambiguities
The text presents a fragmented quiz from a game show asking questions: contumacious means stubborn or disobedient. the Suez Canal has three locks. the U S Navy white flag was flown above the Stars and Stripes only in certain historical contexts. the writer's middle name Makepeace refers to John Makepeace?. Paris mortally wounded Achilles in the heel. Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure. Cuba was discovered by Christopher Columbus.
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Suez Canal
United States Navy
The Answers 1 Rebellious
The Suez canal has no locks. It is at sea level. The church pennant. William Makepeace Thack Cray. The heel. The doctrine that pleasure is the chief or sole good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled in the gratification of pleasure seeking instincts. Columbus.
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Suez Canal
William Makepeace Thack- Cray
Columbus
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Republic Aviation
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