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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... pretty considerable high fence round the public taste , and books gits into the world of letters jest as hogs does into a tater patch - some over and some under . Now and then one gits hung , and the way it gits peppered is dis- tressin ...
... pretty considerable high fence round the public taste , and books gits into the world of letters jest as hogs does into a tater patch - some over and some under . Now and then one gits hung , and the way it gits peppered is dis- tressin ...
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... pretty ! I ax'd her a heap of questions , bout how she liked Macon , and the Female College , and so forth ; and she told me a heap bout ' em . But old Miss Stallins and Miss Carline and Miss Kesiah , and all of ' em , kep all the time ...
... pretty ! I ax'd her a heap of questions , bout how she liked Macon , and the Female College , and so forth ; and she told me a heap bout ' em . But old Miss Stallins and Miss Carline and Miss Kesiah , and all of ' em , kep all the time ...
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... pretty loud , so some body might tell me ; but they only laughed worse . I begun to feel about the room , and the fust thing I knew , spang ! goes my head , rite agin the edge of a dore that was standin open . The fire flew , and I ...
... pretty loud , so some body might tell me ; but they only laughed worse . I begun to feel about the room , and the fust thing I knew , spang ! goes my head , rite agin the edge of a dore that was standin open . The fire flew , and I ...
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... pretty considerable strate . Arter a while they sent word to me that they was all reddy , and I had my horse fotched up to tother side of the tavern ; but when I cum to him the bominable fool didn't know me sumhow , and begun kickin and ...
... pretty considerable strate . Arter a while they sent word to me that they was all reddy , and I had my horse fotched up to tother side of the tavern ; but when I cum to him the bominable fool didn't know me sumhow , and begun kickin and ...
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... pretty fix - wide awake in hell , and no way to git out . It was most day - light afore them old chaps got still bout edecation , modern science , and magnetism , and I didn't git more'n two hours sleep , if I did that . After breckfast ...
... pretty fix - wide awake in hell , and no way to git out . It was most day - light afore them old chaps got still bout edecation , modern science , and magnetism , and I didn't git more'n two hours sleep , if I did that . After breckfast ...
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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.