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CHAPTER II
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Of Taylorville, where I grew up and was married, the most distinguishing thing was that there was nothing to distinguish it from a hundred towns in Ohianna. To begin with, it was laid out about a square, and had two streets at right angles known as Main and Broad. Broad Street, I remember, ran east and west between the high school and the railway station, and Main Street had the Catholic cemetery1 on the south, and the tool and hoe works on the north to mark—there was no other visible distinction—the points at which it became country road. There were numerous cross streets, east and west, called after the Governors, or perhaps it was the Presidents, and north and south, set forth2 on official maps as avenues, taking their names from the trees with which they were falsely declared to be planted, though I do not recall that they were ever spoken of by these names except by the leading county paper which had its office in one corner of the square over the Coöperative store, was Republican in politics, and stood for Progress.
The square was planted with maples3; a hitching4 rack ran quite around it and was, in the number and character of the vehicles attached to it, a sort of public calendar for the days of the week and the seasons. On court days and elections, I remember, they quite filled the rack and overflowed5 to the tie-posts in front of the courthouse, which stood on its own ground a little off from the square, balanced on the opposite side by the Methodist Church. It was a perfect index to the country neighbourhoods that spread east and north to the flat, black corn lands, west to the marl and clay of the river district, and south to the tall-weeded, oozy6 Bottoms. Teams from the Bottoms, I believe, always had cockleburs in their tails; and spanking7 dapple grays drove in with shining top-buggies from the stock farms whose flacking windmills on the straight horizons of the north, struck on my childish fancy as some sort of mechanical scarecrow to frighten away the homey charms of the wooded hills. I recall this sort of detail as the only thing in my native town that
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cemetery
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maples
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槭树,枫树( maple的名词复数 ); 槭木 | |
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搭乘; (免费)搭乘他人之车( hitch的现在分词 ); 搭便车; 攀上; 跃上 | |
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advent
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orchard
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alder
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brook
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annoyance
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judicially
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spankings
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counteracted
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vestiges
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temperament
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perfectly
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parental
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restriction
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intercourse
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eldest
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friendliness
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discredit
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aloof
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swirled
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joyous
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obsession
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sycophancy
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warts
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n.疣( wart的名词复数 );肉赘;树瘤;缺点 | |
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scraps
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appendage
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solidarity
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rendering
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disposition
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contrived
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pretence
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desperately
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mitigated
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inconvenient
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inspection
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futility
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prescription
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corrupted
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writhing
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prerogative
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imperative
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swell
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swelling
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passionate
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