Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 страници |
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... half she don't , anyway . ' " Thish - yer Smiley had a mare - the boys called her the fifteen- minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because of course she was faster than that — and he used to win money on that horse , for ...
... half she don't , anyway . ' " Thish - yer Smiley had a mare - the boys called her the fifteen- minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because of course she was faster than that — and he used to win money on that horse , for ...
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... half a mile below , with whitened hair and a boat half full of water ; and that the guide was upset , and boat , contents and man were strewn along the shore . After this common experience we went quickly on our journey , and , a couple ...
... half a mile below , with whitened hair and a boat half full of water ; and that the guide was upset , and boat , contents and man were strewn along the shore . After this common experience we went quickly on our journey , and , a couple ...
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... half an hour , and I was getting ex- hausted . We had been back and forth across the lake , and round and round the lake . What I feared was , that the trout would start up the inlet , and wreck us in the bushes . But he had a new fancy ...
... half an hour , and I was getting ex- hausted . We had been back and forth across the lake , and round and round the lake . What I feared was , that the trout would start up the inlet , and wreck us in the bushes . But he had a new fancy ...
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... half the battery over- hauled and ready for service . To keep the artillery dry we stuffed wads of loose hemp into the muz- zles , and fitted wood- en pegs to the touch- holes . SAILOR BEN . At recess the next noon the Centipedes met in ...
... half the battery over- hauled and ready for service . To keep the artillery dry we stuffed wads of loose hemp into the muz- zles , and fitted wood- en pegs to the touch- holes . SAILOR BEN . At recess the next noon the Centipedes met in ...
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... half - holiday , and the Centipedes assembled in my barn to decide on the final arrange- ments . These were as simple as could be . As the fuses were connected , it needed but one person to fire the train . Hereupon arose a discussion ...
... half - holiday , and the Centipedes assembled in my barn to decide on the final arrange- ments . These were as simple as could be . As the fuses were connected , it needed but one person to fire the train . Hereupon arose a discussion ...
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Страница 506 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Страница 158 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 87 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Страница 357 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Страница 545 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Страница 505 - 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 T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Страница 98 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Страница 89 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Страница 151 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Страница 149 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.