Adventures in AlaskaFleming H. Revell Company, 1919 - 181 страници |
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... four- footed and her human children . The Eskimo faces the hardest conditions of almost any native race in his battle for life ; and yet he is , perhaps , the most com- fortable of any . He gets his living from the Arctic seas , the ...
... four- footed and her human children . The Eskimo faces the hardest conditions of almost any native race in his battle for life ; and yet he is , perhaps , the most com- fortable of any . He gets his living from the Arctic seas , the ...
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... four hun- dred copies of the Seattle P. I. ( Post In- telligencer ) and Times . He paid two and a half and three cents apiece for them , the selling price at Seattle being five cents . Then he got five or six hundred back num- bers of ...
... four hun- dred copies of the Seattle P. I. ( Post In- telligencer ) and Times . He paid two and a half and three cents apiece for them , the selling price at Seattle being five cents . Then he got five or six hundred back num- bers of ...
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... four or five times . When the Nome Stampede began , Joe got into the good graces of the manager of the steamboat company and got free passage down the Yukon . He shared my wolf - robe on the floor of the purser's room , and we became ...
... four or five times . When the Nome Stampede began , Joe got into the good graces of the manager of the steamboat company and got free passage down the Yukon . He shared my wolf - robe on the floor of the purser's room , and we became ...
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... four or five years later , he was making his way through the University of Washington , and still managing newspaper routes in Seattle . His is a case of exceptional good fortune ; and yet I know of a number of boys who have made ...
... four or five years later , he was making his way through the University of Washington , and still managing newspaper routes in Seattle . His is a case of exceptional good fortune ; and yet I know of a number of boys who have made ...
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... four bits . Ye'll plaze pay in advance . " I took stock of the contents of my pocket- book . There was just five dollars and a quarter left of the thousand dollars with which I had started from home on the first of May . It was now the ...
... four bits . Ye'll plaze pay in advance . " I took stock of the contents of my pocket- book . There was just five dollars and a quarter left of the thousand dollars with which I had started from home on the first of May . It was now the ...
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Страница 66 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling wak'd, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, — Such terrible impression made my dream.
Страница 153 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Страница 38 - Within himself, from more to more ; Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Страница 29 - Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it is n't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it?
Страница 34 - Whing-Whang seeks ?Crouching low by the winding creeks And holding his breath for weeks and weeks! Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs! Aroint him the wraithest of wraithly things ! Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs! 'Tis a fair...
Страница 5 - Alaska with the hope that it will afford healthy-minded young people a true idea of some phases of human and animal life there.
Страница 52 - When a man had been impoverished or made sick through drink I went to the saloons, only, for his relief. In other cases I made a general canvass. When collecting money for church purposes I went to everybody, except the saloonkeepers and their following. The day before my second meeting with the Odd Fellows' Club — a rainy, blustering day — I came to Bunch-grass Bill with a greater demand.