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O Pioneers!

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 10 of O Pioneers! is here in full — 511 sentences across 103 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Willa Cather • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Alexandra

I

Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

It was only five o’clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had come up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and torrents of rain.

The old man wore his buffalo-skin coat, and occasionally stopped to warm his fingers at the lantern.

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Chapter VI Reading 1/102

O Pioneers!

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 10 of O Pioneers! is here in full — 511 sentences across 103 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/102 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Alexandra

Line 2

I

Line 3

Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

Line 4

It was only five o’clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had come up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and torrents of rain.

Line 5

The old man wore his buffalo-skin coat, and occasionally stopped to warm his fingers at the lantern.

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101st

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a

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afternoon

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Alexandra

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From this reading Alexandra

and

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at

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From this reading Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

barn

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bench

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From this reading Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

black

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bringing

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buffalo-skin

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but

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by

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clouds

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coat

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cobbler's

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cold

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come

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day

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fingers

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five

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had

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harness

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himself

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his

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I

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in

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It

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Ivar

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lantern

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light

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man

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mending

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mid-October

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o'clock

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occasionally

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of

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old

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only

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Psalm

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rain

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repeating

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sitting

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From this reading Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

stopped

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storm

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the

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to

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From this reading Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

torrents

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up

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warm

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was

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From this reading Ivar was sitting at a cobbler’s bench in the barn, mending harness by the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.

wind

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wore

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Chapter 10 of O Pioneers! by Willa Cather holds 511 sentences, grouped into 103 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 10 of O Pioneers! contain?

Chapter 10 holds 511 sentences of O Pioneers!, unabridged, divided into 103 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 10 of O Pioneers! by Willa Cather exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 511 sentences, grouped into 103 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.

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Work through the 103 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

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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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About 339 minutes of reading across 815 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in O Pioneers!

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Memory: A word that appears in the opening chapter of O Pioneers!; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Sarah: A word that appears in the opening chapter of O Pioneers!; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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