The Ten Books of the Merrymakers, Volumen1Marshall Pinckney Wilder Circle Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... ..Carolyn Wells 182 Alan Dale 35 James Russell Lowell 131 . William Henry Drummond 92 Why Moles Have Hands ... Wouter Van Twiller Yankee Dude'll Do , The . . Anne Virginia Culbertson 202 .Washington Irving 109 .S . E. Kiser 136 CONTENTS.
... ..Carolyn Wells 182 Alan Dale 35 James Russell Lowell 131 . William Henry Drummond 92 Why Moles Have Hands ... Wouter Van Twiller Yankee Dude'll Do , The . . Anne Virginia Culbertson 202 .Washington Irving 109 .S . E. Kiser 136 CONTENTS.
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... hand and the five dollars in the other , and decided that as I'd been punished once , and got used to it , I wouldn't mind taking the other licking at school . So I did , and I kept the five dollars . That was the first money I ever ...
... hand and the five dollars in the other , and decided that as I'd been punished once , and got used to it , I wouldn't mind taking the other licking at school . So I did , and I kept the five dollars . That was the first money I ever ...
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... hand . Some efforts were made to oblige them , but without avail , for the tellers had twisted their recol- lections of the stories into jokes , and they didn't sound right , so a committee hunted the town for Burdette to help them out ...
... hand . Some efforts were made to oblige them , but without avail , for the tellers had twisted their recol- lections of the stories into jokes , and they didn't sound right , so a committee hunted the town for Burdette to help them out ...
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... hands , with his bare feet quivering in the air . Then he turned toward me and threw out a conversational pre- liminary . " They is a cirkis " -said Melons gravely , hanging with his back to the fence and his arms twisted around the pa ...
... hands , with his bare feet quivering in the air . Then he turned toward me and threw out a conversational pre- liminary . " They is a cirkis " -said Melons gravely , hanging with his back to the fence and his arms twisted around the pa ...
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... hand and present to George's aston- ished gaze a large forty - cent watermelon , which until now had been concealed by the shawl - strap . SIMPLE ENGLISH BY RAY CLARKE ROSE Ofttimes when I put on my gloves , I wonder if I'm sane . For ...
... hand and present to George's aston- ished gaze a large forty - cent watermelon , which until now had been concealed by the shawl - strap . SIMPLE ENGLISH BY RAY CLARKE ROSE Ofttimes when I put on my gloves , I wonder if I'm sane . For ...
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Página 7 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor , or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Página 9 - Fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large; Take it.
Página 8 - ... em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thorpughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died; That was the way he "put her through.
Página 129 - B. is a sensible man ; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks ; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes ; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him o...
Página 8 - or an " I tell yeou ")— He would build one shay to beat the taown 'N' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown :— " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest To make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Página 130 - Polk, you know, he is our country, An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Página 10 - That there was n'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the...
Página 205 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Página 108 - By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts ; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom.
Página 109 - ... a beer barrel on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament, and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of every thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple.