1) my mother was born in a tiny town just west of the mississippi river. (2) the mississippi river is 2,350 miles long. (3) her family was very poor. (4) at the age of nine, she was put in charge of sewing clothes for the entire family. (5) she had to walk to town and buy the necessary cloth, then carry the heavy bags of cloth back to her house.
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onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.