Adventures in AlaskaFleming H. Revell Company, 1919 - 181 страници |
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... strong , loose garments did not cost a third as much as broadcloth , and would wear twice as well . Besides , it would cost a dollar and a half to have a white shirt laundered in Interior Alaska ( which , at that time , was twice the ...
... strong , loose garments did not cost a third as much as broadcloth , and would wear twice as well . Besides , it would cost a dollar and a half to have a white shirt laundered in Interior Alaska ( which , at that time , was twice the ...
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... . The dory wallowed heavily in the waves , the strong wind driving it towards the sandy beach . Boats have to anchor from one to two miles offshore at Nome . When we reached the beach , a big wave lifted the dory THE NOME STAMPEDE 27.
... . The dory wallowed heavily in the waves , the strong wind driving it towards the sandy beach . Boats have to anchor from one to two miles offshore at Nome . When we reached the beach , a big wave lifted the dory THE NOME STAMPEDE 27.
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... strong and will- ing men , a stretcher from the army post and a good physician and went with me on the errand of mercy . He worked all day in the mud and rain . He carried the sick man to the warehouse which we had turned into a ...
... strong and will- ing men , a stretcher from the army post and a good physician and went with me on the errand of mercy . He worked all day in the mud and rain . He carried the sick man to the warehouse which we had turned into a ...
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... Strong and Bunch - grass Bill . The lady looked after matters of business , my letters , and informa- tion about other sick people . Billy , with his soft , low voice and gentle manner , hovered over me , sitting for hours at my bedside ...
... Strong and Bunch - grass Bill . The lady looked after matters of business , my letters , and informa- tion about other sick people . Billy , with his soft , low voice and gentle manner , hovered over me , sitting for hours at my bedside ...
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... Strong and Billy Murtagh to solve the diffi- culty . I was paying my nurse , Mrs. Per- rigo , five dollars a day , which was almost all she and her husband had to live on . They had been eating for a year and a half a food outfit ...
... Strong and Billy Murtagh to solve the diffi- culty . I was paying my nurse , Mrs. Per- rigo , five dollars a day , which was almost all she and her husband had to live on . They had been eating for a year and a half a food outfit ...
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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?
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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.