Major Jones's Courtship and Travels: Comprising All the Scenes, Incidents and Adventures of His Courtship, in a Series of Letters by Himself; as Well as the Humorous Narrative of His Travels from Georgia to Canada, and Back, Together with His Experience in Each Town He Passed Through, Volume 1, Parts 1-2T. B. Peterson and brothers, 1857 |
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... aint no eend , and much readin is a wearin out of the brains , " and I don't blame the publick for holdin alı writers to a countability for pesterin ' em with new books . But a rite good excuse amounts to a justifi- cation , in some ...
... aint no eend , and much readin is a wearin out of the brains , " and I don't blame the publick for holdin alı writers to a countability for pesterin ' em with new books . But a rite good excuse amounts to a justifi- cation , in some ...
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... aint so much botherment of the brains involved , neither in the writin nor the readin of my book , as ther is in " Letters from under a Bridge , " but if it will serve to draw a few nails out of your coffin , by makin you laugh , they ...
... aint so much botherment of the brains involved , neither in the writin nor the readin of my book , as ther is in " Letters from under a Bridge , " but if it will serve to draw a few nails out of your coffin , by makin you laugh , they ...
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... aint they , Miss Mary ? " for I felt mighty oneasy , and begin to spit a great deal worse . " Yes , " ses she , " they're the most interestin com- panions I ever had , and I am anxious to resume their pleasant sciety . " I tell you what ...
... aint they , Miss Mary ? " for I felt mighty oneasy , and begin to spit a great deal worse . " Yes , " ses she , " they're the most interestin com- panions I ever had , and I am anxious to resume their pleasant sciety . " I tell you what ...
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... aint no bank man - I'm posed to all banks - but I is a frend to the pore man , and is always reddy to stand up for his constitutional rites When the Central Bank put out its munny it was good , and rich men got it and made use of it ...
... aint no bank man - I'm posed to all banks - but I is a frend to the pore man , and is always reddy to stand up for his constitutional rites When the Central Bank put out its munny it was good , and rich men got it and made use of it ...
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... aint to cheat the pore man who's got sum of it ? If I's lected , I shall go for makin the banks redeem ther munny in silver and gold , or put every devil of ' em into the penitentiary to makin nigger shoes . I's a hard munny man and in ...
... aint to cheat the pore man who's got sum of it ? If I's lected , I shall go for makin the banks redeem ther munny in silver and gold , or put every devil of ' em into the penitentiary to makin nigger shoes . I's a hard munny man and in ...
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Page 66 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 102 - 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 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.
Page 101 - and you know you promised to keep my Crismus present as long as you lived.
Page 96 - 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." " But I didn't mean that" ses she. " I've got one for you, what I want you to keep all your life, but it would take a two-bushel bag to hold it,
Page 96 - I use to hang up my stockin's 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.
Page 98 - Come here, good feller," ses I, and whistled a little to him, but it wasn't no use. Thar he stood and kep up his everlastin whinin and barkin all night. I couldn't tell when daylight was breakin^ only by the chickens crowin, and I was monstrous glad to hear 'em, for if I'd had to stay thar one hour more, I don't believe I'd ever got out of that bag alive. Old Miss Stallins come out fust, and as soon as she...
Page 95 - I'm gwine to keep it as long as I live," ses I, " as a Crismus present from the handsomest gall in Georgia." When I sed that, she blushed worse and worse. " Ain't you shamed, Majer?" ses she. " Now you ought to give her a Crismus gift, Joseph, to keep all her life,
Page 17 - I am devoted to them — I think of them day and night ! " That was too much— it shot me right up, and I sot as still as could be for more'na minute. I never felt so warm behind the ears afore in all my life. Thunder ! how my blood did bile up all over me, and I felt like I could knock Matthew Matix into a greasspot, if he'd only been thar.
Page 95 - Joseph, to keep all her life," sed Miss Carline. "Ah," ses old Miss Stallins, "when I was a gall we used to hang up our stockins " "Why, mother!" ses all of 'em, "to say stockins rite afore " Then I felt a little streaked too, cause they was all blushin as hard as they could. "Highty-tity!
Page 98 - I'd ever got out of that bag alive. Old Miss Stallins come out fust, and as soon as she saw the bag, ses she : " What upon yeath has Joseph went and put in that bag for Mary? I'll lay it's a yearlin or some live animal, or Bruin wouldn't bark at it so.