"Stray Steps"Glens Falls Publishing Company, 1920 - 200 pages |
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... Aunt Norma Did Not Know What to Think . XXIX . Ephraim's Room Unoccupied XXX . A Sad Error of Judgement . XXXI . The Extent of the Injuries to Ina . CONTENTS Chapter XXXII . Uncle Orson's Theater Party at Gayety CONTENTS.
... Aunt Norma Did Not Know What to Think . XXIX . Ephraim's Room Unoccupied XXX . A Sad Error of Judgement . XXXI . The Extent of the Injuries to Ina . CONTENTS Chapter XXXII . Uncle Orson's Theater Party at Gayety CONTENTS.
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Harvester Hiram. CONTENTS Chapter XXXII . Uncle Orson's Theater Party at Gayety Hall . XXXIII . A Shameful Performance . XXXIV . Those Who Blaze the Way Along the Trail of Impropriety . XXXV . Temptations , Pitfalls , and Other Penalties ...
Harvester Hiram. CONTENTS Chapter XXXII . Uncle Orson's Theater Party at Gayety Hall . XXXIII . A Shameful Performance . XXXIV . Those Who Blaze the Way Along the Trail of Impropriety . XXXV . Temptations , Pitfalls , and Other Penalties ...
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... party of towns- folk . Addison Adamson , the figure who towered above the others , was corpulent , active and of apparent optimistic temperament . The owner of the News , and interested in other local enterprises , he assumed certain ...
... party of towns- folk . Addison Adamson , the figure who towered above the others , was corpulent , active and of apparent optimistic temperament . The owner of the News , and interested in other local enterprises , he assumed certain ...
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... verious quadruped at a lawn party . Standing on his feet ' till a chair was offered him , the town grouch speed- ed up his monologue of discontent and dissatisfaction . First he found fault with the extravagance of the State 32 STRAY STEPS.
... verious quadruped at a lawn party . Standing on his feet ' till a chair was offered him , the town grouch speed- ed up his monologue of discontent and dissatisfaction . First he found fault with the extravagance of the State 32 STRAY STEPS.
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... parties who had recently visited The Glen on spell - binding missions . Patriotic speech making he declared to be a lost art . Cross - road , spread - eagle effulgence had died out in his judgment . Rosecrans , Cheritree and Van Cott ...
... parties who had recently visited The Glen on spell - binding missions . Patriotic speech making he declared to be a lost art . Cross - road , spread - eagle effulgence had died out in his judgment . Rosecrans , Cheritree and Van Cott ...
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Page 32 - Be kind to each other, The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone.
Page 26 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution — -not that — but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself.
Page 29 - The glory of young men is their strength : and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Page 13 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 22 - Rabbis down. But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall . A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Page 182 - All false appearance as became a Queen. The worst of me is known, and I can say, That I am better than the fame I bear.
Page 21 - And knowledge to the studious sage, And pillow soft to head of age ; To thee dear schoolboy whom my lay Has cheated of his hour of play, Light task and merry holiday. To all, to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light. But were I to descant upon all the beauties of the British Poets, and give you a quotation from each illustrative of his view of the ideal character of woman, I might detain you till midnight : for...