Traits of American Humour, 第 3 卷

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Colburn and Company, 1852

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第 103 頁 - EARLY, my God, without delay, I haste to seek thy face, My thirsty spirit faints away, Without thy cheering grace. '2 So pilgrims, on the scorching sand, Beneath a burning sky, Long for a cooling stream at hand, And they must drink or die.
第 264 頁 - I'd like to have it all over at once, but young galls always like to be engaged a while, you know, so I spose I must wait a month or so. Mary (she ses I mustn't...
第 118 頁 - At this moment he saw me for the first time. He looked excessively embarrassed, and was moving off when I called to him in a tone emboldened by...
第 264 頁 - Don't hurt it for the world," ses Miss Mary. Cato untied the rope that was round the jice, and let the bag down easy on the floor, and I tumbled out all covered with cornmeal, from head to foot. " Goodness gracious ! " ses Miss Mary, " if it ain't the Majer himself!" " Yes," ses I, " and you know you promised to keep my Crismus present as long as you lived.
第 264 頁 - The galls laughed themselves alm'ost to deth, and went to brushin off the meal as fast as they could, sayin they was gwine to hang that bag up every Crismus til they got husbands too.
第 265 頁 - I musn't call her Miss Mary now) has been a good deal of trouble and botheration to me ; but if you could see her, you wouldn't think I ought to grudge a little sufferin to git sich a sweet little wife.
第 264 頁 - I was froze stiff, one look at her sweet face, as she stood thar lookin down to the floor with her roguish eyes, and her bright curls fallin all over her snowy neck, would have fotched me too. I tell you what, it was worth hangin in a meal bag from one Crismus to another to feel as happy as I have ever sense. I went home after we had the laugh out, and sot by the fire till I got thawed.
第 258 頁 - You come under little sister's chicken bone, and I do believe she know'd you was comin when she put it over the dore." "No I didn't — I didn't no such thing, now," ses Miss Mary, and her face blushed red all over.
第 114 頁 - Corner" of Lincoln. I believe it took its name from the moral darkness which reigned over that portion of the county at the time of which I am speaking. If in this point of view it was but a shade darker than the rest of the county, it was inconceivably dark. If any man can name a trick or sin which had not been committed at the time of which I am speaking, in the very focus of...
第 260 頁 - I use to hang up my stockins and git 'em full of presents." The galls kep laughin and blushin. " Never mind," ses Miss Mary, " Majer's got to give me a Crismus gift, — won't you, Majer ? " "Oh, yes," ses I; "you know I promised you one.