5D+Tuck+Chapter+1

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__=
 * 1) ===The road that lead to Treegap had been __trod out__ long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. //The cows had created a path by walking over the grass and wearing it down.//===
 * 2) ===It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant __tangent__ to the top of a small hill... [[image:tangent.png width="168" height="118"]]===
 * 3) ===It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil __bovine__ picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite. //Bovines are cows.//===
 * 4) ===And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust __oppressive__, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and __forlorn__. //The dust was so thick that it was hard to breath. The grasses edges were droopy and a bit sad looking.//===
 * 5) ===On the left stood the first house, a square and solid cottage with a __touch-me-not appearance__, surrounded by grass cut painfully __to the quick__ and enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, "Move on - we don't want //you// here." //Touch-me-not in this sentence means cold and unwelcoming. When grass is cut "to the quick" it is cut extremely short, like at a golf course.//===
 * 6) ===In any case, the wood, being on top - except, of course, for its roots - __was owned bud and bough__ by the Fosters in the touch-me-not cottage... //The Fosters owned the whole wooded area.//===

= = =__Vocabulary:__ amble, tranquil, contemplate, accessible, meager, dim=

= = =__Question #1:__ Babbitt gives her views about land ownership in this chapter. Explain the author's views and then express your feelings about land ownership.= =__Question #2:__ Although we are not told, suggest reasons why it may have been a disaster if the spring had been discovered by people.=

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