agates

From Germany we get the finest "agates," the beauty and value of which every lover of the game knows.

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Stones, such as agates, which are found on the sea beach, or any stone which is required to be polished, is to be first ground down to a rough surface, then polished by successive rubbings of first, second, and third grit-stones of different degrees of fineness, lastly

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But in the third or fourth grade I borrowed 5 or six agates, paid off the loan the same day, winnings increased with a newly found skill, and by the seventh grade it was difficult to find a challenger -- except one guy in the eighth grade with similar accuracy with his "shooters".

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Bobbi tells me that Ron likes to come to the beach and look for agates among the pebbles.

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It would really be great if the GOP would “get their agates in a row” so that there could be some intellectual debates about the problems facing this country, instead of individuals such as Bachmann speaking so irresponsibly.

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And it needs a control group, so they needed to get that oaf to kick a few unsuspecting punters in the agates as well.

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Once there, we even survived a Timber Carnival, deep-sea fishing for salmon, an outing to Mount Hood, and collecting agates that had washed ashore.

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Bobbi tells me that Ron likes to come to the beach and look for agates among the pebbles.

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And south they went, along roads that steadily grew worse, through the dairy country of Langlois and through thick pine forests to Port Orford, where Saxon picked jeweled agates on the beach while Billy caught enormous rockcod.

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Bobbi tells me that Ron likes to come to the beach and look for agates among the pebbles.

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