| A | B |
|---|
| gumption | courage; nerve |
| Iroquois | Native American tribe in N.E. |
| Shaker | Informal name of a religious group |
| sport | object of ridicule |
| goiter | swollen diseased thyroid gland |
| mallet | a kind of hammer used for driving |
| swale | a hollow with wet, marshy ground |
| flashback | returning to an earlier time in story |
| narrator | person who tells the story |
| first person | the author is IN the story that he narrates |
| bracken | large, coarse fern |
| sty | a pen for pigs |
| capstan | cyclindrical apparatus for winding rope |
| muslin | a heavy variety of cotton cloth |
| spar | various crystalline minerals |
