Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 21-22 of Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder!

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Mother's _____ went snickety-snick through the web of beautiful sheep's-gray cloth she had woven.
1. husks
2. saplings
3. shears
He did not need Almanzo any more now, so Almanzo helped Father _____ corn.
1. husk
2. drudge
3. sheared
She was studying to be a fine lady; she told Almanzo all about her lessons in music and _____, but she was glad to be at home again.
1. deportment
2. husking
3. sapling
She even told Mother that she was _____ because Father drank tea from his saucer.
1. stout
2. mortified
3. pliable
"You're a bigger fool than I be, if you _____ all your days on a farm," he said.
1. drudge
2. mortify
3. husk
First Father _____ the bottoms of the runners flat and smooth.
1. hewed
2. drudged
3. plied
The bottoms of the runners were flat and smooth, clear around the _____ of their turned-up ends.
1. pliable
2. deportment
3. crook
Into the holes he drove _____ wooden pegs.
1. stout
2. hewed
3. drudge
For the tongue he used an elm _____.
1. sapling
2. crook
3. shears
Elm is tougher and more _____ than oak.
1. mortified
2. drudge
3. pliable