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Four Skinny Trees. Four Skinny Trees is an excerpt from the book by Sandra Cisneros entitled The House on Mango Street. Four Skinny Trees is found on pages 74 and 75. Copyright Sandra Cisneros, 1984 and published by Vintage Contemporaries, 1991. They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here.
Here are three for Stella, and two for Pris, and a glorious fat one for me from Jo. Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context. That,' said the Buzzard to his mate, is the distinguished author of that glorious fable, 'The Ostrich and the Keg of Raw Nails.gnes, I want you to take a walk with me to--' (he named a certain part of the coast--a bold hill on the land side, and towards the sea a steep precipice, from the summit of which a glorious view is to be had). Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context.