Part 2 From dawn to dusk in darkling air we glean and gulp and pluck and snare, then find a roost that’s snug and tight to brave the long and frozen night. 5 W e fluff and preen each downy feather, Sing fee-bee—and laugh at the weather! For if we’re quick and bold and clever, winter’s chill won’t last forever. The sun wheels high, the cardinal trills. 10 We sip the drips of icicles. The buds are thick, the snow is slack. Spring has broken winter’s back. Quick and bold and brave and clever, we preen and fluff each downy feather. 15 Sing fee-bee—laugh at the weather— for winter doesn’t last forever!
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Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.

24.1.6 quiz: william faulkner aperle question 4 of 5 2 points what is cash building in as i lay dying? o a. a truck bed for jewel o b. a bin to pile cotton in o c. a kitchen table for his family o d. a box to bury addie in subm