Indian Dust DevilsHobbs, 1937 - 138 pages |
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Page 87
... death , so perhaps the wolf - child is as much a myth as the rope trick . Still when one has seen during an epidemic , father and mother lying dead and neglected on a railway station platform and their two crying infants beside them ...
... death , so perhaps the wolf - child is as much a myth as the rope trick . Still when one has seen during an epidemic , father and mother lying dead and neglected on a railway station platform and their two crying infants beside them ...
Page 110
... death Mrs. Carson ran it . The Haverley Minstrels were a first class company , considered by many to be better than the Moore and Burgess , or the Mohawks . They were real lamp- black negroes with fine voices and a natural gift for ...
... death Mrs. Carson ran it . The Haverley Minstrels were a first class company , considered by many to be better than the Moore and Burgess , or the Mohawks . They were real lamp- black negroes with fine voices and a natural gift for ...
Page 116
... from the certain fate of death from drink . Songs like the " Garden of Sleep , " reeking of the morgue and the odour of a reopened grave were appreciated the nearer they got to the lachrymal two - handkerchief 116 INDIAN DUST DEVILS.
... from the certain fate of death from drink . Songs like the " Garden of Sleep , " reeking of the morgue and the odour of a reopened grave were appreciated the nearer they got to the lachrymal two - handkerchief 116 INDIAN DUST DEVILS.
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