Reading Passage:
When summer comes to the North Woods, time slows down. And some days it stops altogether. The sky, grey and lowering of much of the year, becomes an ocean of blue, so vast and brilliant you can't help but stop what you're doing - pinning wet sheets to the line maybe, or shucking a bushel of corn on the back steps - to stare up at it.
The guests up from New York, all in their summer whites, will play croquet on the lawn for ever. The children of doctors and lawyers from Utica, Rome and Syracuse will always run through the woods, laughing and shrieking.
Synonyms:
Shuck - to remove the shell or natural covering from something that is eaten.
Bushel - a unit of measurement equal to approximately 36.4 litres in Britain or 35.2 litres in the US.
Croquet (/kroʊˈkeɪ/)- a game in which two, three or four players use mallets (= long wooden hammers) to hit wooden balls through small metal hoops (= curves) fixed into the grass
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