Country was much stiller than town was ... the sounds could not have been more distinct if they had been dropped down a deep well. From the blacksmith shop ... came a TANG-TANG. A bee droomed lazily. Annie sang in her kitchen ... the halter shanks, made impatient, little clinking sounds. TANG-TANG-TING-TANG TANG went Ab's hammer on the anvil.
W. O. Mitchell,Who has Seen the Wind,, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 230.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
The horses galloped free...the rack clattering behind them..
W. O. Mitchell,Who has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 232.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
...two tipped-up hens were clucking absent-mindedly as they pecked in the bare dirt.
W. O. Mitchell,Who has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 233.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
The night wind had two voices; one that keened along the pulsing wires, the prairie one that throated long and deep.
Here and there a farm dog barked.
W. O. Mitchell,Who has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 235.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
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