Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 352 páginas |
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... hands , and carefully placing it bottom side up ; and when he got out of bed in the morn- ing , he put it on first , with both hands , and invariably with the same end forward . He was always walking about with a white hickory staff ...
... hands , and carefully placing it bottom side up ; and when he got out of bed in the morn- ing , he put it on first , with both hands , and invariably with the same end forward . He was always walking about with a white hickory staff ...
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... hand over hand along his trot - line ; but nobody believed Old Alpha , because he once said he caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds . Others affirmed he slid across on a film of petroleum ; 16 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
... hand over hand along his trot - line ; but nobody believed Old Alpha , because he once said he caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds . Others affirmed he slid across on a film of petroleum ; 16 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
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... hands on his knees , or clutching the whortleberry - bushes for a support . Once upon the summit , he paused , turned about , and gazed mournfully down upon the surpassing rich and noble valley he had crossed , but in which he had been ...
... hands on his knees , or clutching the whortleberry - bushes for a support . Once upon the summit , he paused , turned about , and gazed mournfully down upon the surpassing rich and noble valley he had crossed , but in which he had been ...
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... hands be- hind him under his coat - tails . Stout - hearted old Colonel Dobley had also hobbled there , to show the young men how to fight . There , too , was the stately , but languid , Miss Jemima Boonder , with the pleading eyes and ...
... hands be- hind him under his coat - tails . Stout - hearted old Colonel Dobley had also hobbled there , to show the young men how to fight . There , too , was the stately , but languid , Miss Jemima Boonder , with the pleading eyes and ...
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... longer clave together , but they rode each his several way . Thus was the great sovereign and inviolable Buckeye State delivered out of the hand of the spoilers . TWINKLE OF THE MOOSE'S EYE . The red man came- LEGEND of fedeRAL BOTTOM . 23.
... longer clave together , but they rode each his several way . Thus was the great sovereign and inviolable Buckeye State delivered out of the hand of the spoilers . TWINKLE OF THE MOOSE'S EYE . The red man came- LEGEND of fedeRAL BOTTOM . 23.
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Página 300 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
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