You can learn a lot by getting your hands dirty With humor, humility, and insight, John and Kip Sherbondy share moments of their lives in Navigating the Plum Thicket.
Ed was a sixteen-year-old conservative Mennonite farm boy growing up on the family farm in Central Kansas in 1884.
In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel.
... plum thicket ! A little furnace in the plum thicket ! " ejaculated the old wife in amazement . “ What in the world is it doing out there ? ” " Uh huh , I told you he wouldn't make no sense ! " But Polycarp and Augustus already had ...
... the plum thicket and asked how they happened to be there. Grandpa said that the Comanche Indians had done a lot of fighting in the area and he assumed a Comanche arrow smith had made his arrows nearby and those in the plum thicket were ...
they seemed to grow longer and stronger, each time they were pulled through the little old man's swift-moving fingers. ... that the white hairs spun out into silver wires hundreds of feet long, and stronger than steel.
In these lyrical essays, Henry Chappell examines the bonds that exist between hunter, hunting dog, land, and prey.