Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 3

By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed.

At the same time, someone had taught her where to look for the North Star, the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as the other stars appeared to do; and told her that anyone walking toward the North could use that star as a guide.

Sometimes at night, or during the day, she heard the furious galloping of horses, not just one horse, several horses, thud of the hoofbeats along the road jingle of harness.

The other slaves were in awe of Ben because he could prophesy about the weather.

Each slave received eight pounds of pickled pork or its equivalent in fish, one bushel of Indian meal (corn meal), one pint of salt.

The ones that could fly shed their wings. They couldn’t take their wings across the water on slave ships.

The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea.

She trembled to be so hard worked and scorned.

That babe started up bawling too loud.

She let it cry. She didn’t want to. She had no heart to croon to it.