Chapter 11 of Buffalo Bill's weird warning is here in full — 215 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Buffalo Bill's weird warning is here in full — 215 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE STRANGER AND THE STEER. “Whoop-ya! Looket thar, will ye? By the great horn spoon! Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
Chapter 11 of Buffalo Bill's weird warning is here in full — 215 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
go or come after and bring or take back
From this reading “Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.”
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading “By the great horn spoon!”
a room equipped for preparing meals
From this reading “Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.”
a strong line
From this reading “Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.”
a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
From this reading “By the great horn spoon!”
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
From this reading “THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.”
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
From this reading “THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.”
a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
From this reading “Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “By the great horn spoon!”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading By the great horn spoon!
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
go or come after and bring or take back
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading By the great horn spoon!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
an expression of greeting
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading By the great horn spoon!
a room equipped for preparing meals
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Looket thar, will ye?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
a strong line
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
From this reading By the great horn spoon!
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
From this reading THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
From this reading THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Looket thar, will ye?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Whoop-ya!
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Looket thar, will ye?
a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
From this reading Cut fer the kitchen, Wing Hi, an’ fetch me the rope that’s hangin’ thar.
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading Looket thar, will ye?
Chapter 11 of Buffalo Bill's weird warning by Prentiss Ingraham holds 215 sentences, grouped into 43 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 11 holds 215 sentences of Buffalo Bill's weird warning, unabridged, divided into 43 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Buffalo Bill's weird warning by Prentiss Ingraham exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 215 sentences, grouped into 43 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 43 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 43 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 11 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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