Each girl got a cow, a mare and sufficient "house[-]plunder" with which to set up house-keeping, but they rarely got any land, the husband being expected to provide that.
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House-plunder
//ˈhaʊsˌplʌndə//
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Why, she married that oldest boy of little Ike's, a moughty well-turned, civil, workin' boy, an' his folks give 'im a heifer an' some house[-]plunder, an' her mam give 'em a bed an' a nice lot uv quilts, an' they've set up fer theirselves.
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So Jack got all them things from the giant and gathered up all the house-plunder that wasn't tore up when the house hit the ground.
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Fin'lly the old sow she fixed Jack three days' rations and a little house-plunder on a drag-sled and he headed for the wilderness.
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