Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 страници |
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... rest , and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you . He ketched a frog one day , and took him home , and said he cal'lated to educate him ; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard ...
... rest , and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you . He ketched a frog one day , and took him home , and said he cal'lated to educate him ; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard ...
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... to see what was wanted . ] " A turning to me as he moved away , he said : ' Just set where you are , stranger , and rest easy - I ain't going to be gone a second . ' ' But , by your leave , I did not think THE JUMPING FROG . 7.
... to see what was wanted . ] " A turning to me as he moved away , he said : ' Just set where you are , stranger , and rest easy - I ain't going to be gone a second . ' ' But , by your leave , I did not think THE JUMPING FROG . 7.
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... rest of the afternoon . Directly after twilight set in Phil Adams stole down to the wharf and fixed the fuses to the guns , laying a train of powder from the principal fuse to the fence , through a chink of which I was to drop the match ...
... rest of the afternoon . Directly after twilight set in Phil Adams stole down to the wharf and fixed the fuses to the guns , laying a train of powder from the principal fuse to the fence , through a chink of which I was to drop the match ...
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... rest . But there were no faint hearts among the Centipedes . Suspicion rested for a while on several persons on the soldiers at the fort ; on a crazy fellow , known about town as " Bottle- Nose ; " and at last on Sailor Ben . " Shiver ...
... rest . But there were no faint hearts among the Centipedes . Suspicion rested for a while on several persons on the soldiers at the fort ; on a crazy fellow , known about town as " Bottle- Nose ; " and at last on Sailor Ben . " Shiver ...
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... rest from their labor . Centuries ago , in England , some drops of blood from ' noble ' veins may have mingled with the blood of their forefathers ; or , even , the founder of the family name may be historically famous . What then ? Is ...
... rest from their labor . Centuries ago , in England , some drops of blood from ' noble ' veins may have mingled with the blood of their forefathers ; or , even , the founder of the family name may be historically famous . What then ? Is ...
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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.