Traits of American Humour, 第 2 卷Thomas Chandler Haliburton Colburn and Company, 1852 |
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... XXIV . THE MUSCADINE STORY 265 XXV . POLLY PEABLOSSOM'S WEDDING . . 280 XXVI . THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD · 297 XXVII . PELEG PONDER ; OR , THE POLITICIAN WITHOUT A SIDE • 304 TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR . I. THE EDITOR'S CREED . CONTENTS . V.
... XXIV . THE MUSCADINE STORY 265 XXV . POLLY PEABLOSSOM'S WEDDING . . 280 XXVI . THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD · 297 XXVII . PELEG PONDER ; OR , THE POLITICIAN WITHOUT A SIDE • 304 TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR . I. THE EDITOR'S CREED . CONTENTS . V.
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... children gaped in dumb astonish- ment , and old women with dismal faces ran about croaking The Governor is dead ! ' 6 I " To me these things seemed to betoken the general wreck of nature , for how the order of the universe could subsist ...
... children gaped in dumb astonish- ment , and old women with dismal faces ran about croaking The Governor is dead ! ' 6 I " To me these things seemed to betoken the general wreck of nature , for how the order of the universe could subsist ...
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... you hear that Dicey Loomis is gwying to git married ? Well ! well ! it beats me ! bless the Lord ! I wonder who she's gwying to get married to , Miss Collis ? " Ses Miss Collis , " Now , child , yure BILLY WARRICK'S COURTSHIP . 101.
... you hear that Dicey Loomis is gwying to git married ? Well ! well ! it beats me ! bless the Lord ! I wonder who she's gwying to get married to , Miss Collis ? " Ses Miss Collis , " Now , child , yure BILLY WARRICK'S COURTSHIP . 101.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Ses Miss Collis , " Now , child , yure too hard for me ! but they do say it's to that Taler from Town . Well , he's a putty man , and had on such a nice dress - ' cept he's most too much nock nead , sich eyes ...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Ses Miss Collis , " Now , child , yure too hard for me ! but they do say it's to that Taler from Town . Well , he's a putty man , and had on such a nice dress - ' cept he's most too much nock nead , sich eyes ...
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... child . " So I kissed Barbry , and left . The way I rode home was oncommon peart , and my old mare pranced and was like the man in Skrip- tur , who " waxed fat and kick'd , " and I hurried home to tell old Venus , and to put up three ...
... child . " So I kissed Barbry , and left . The way I rode home was oncommon peart , and my old mare pranced and was like the man in Skrip- tur , who " waxed fat and kick'd , " and I hurried home to tell old Venus , and to put up three ...
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