The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and HumourAdams and Francis, 1865 - 226 páginas |
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... Boston , is the 4th child , has 4 names , enlisted in the Newton com- pany , which joined the 4th battalion , 44th regiment , and on the 4th of August was appointed 4th corporal , and is now gone to defend his country . ELBOW - ROOM ...
... Boston , is the 4th child , has 4 names , enlisted in the Newton com- pany , which joined the 4th battalion , 44th regiment , and on the 4th of August was appointed 4th corporal , and is now gone to defend his country . ELBOW - ROOM ...
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... Boston , brought him to Bunker's Hill . They stood look- ing at the splendid shaft , when the Yankee said , " This is the place where Warren fell . " " Ah ! " replied the Englishman evidently not posted up in local historical matters ...
... Boston , brought him to Bunker's Hill . They stood look- ing at the splendid shaft , when the Yankee said , " This is the place where Warren fell . " " Ah ! " replied the Englishman evidently not posted up in local historical matters ...
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... Boston Journal publishes the following : -The individual who dropped half of his thumb at the corner of Cooper and North Mangin Streets on Tuesday night , may have some interest in knowing that it has been picked up and care- fully ...
... Boston Journal publishes the following : -The individual who dropped half of his thumb at the corner of Cooper and North Mangin Streets on Tuesday night , may have some interest in knowing that it has been picked up and care- fully ...
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... BOSTON Contemporary says he finds among his ex- changes the following paragraph : - " The printers are on A strike for hisher MeGeS , Me Hve Qoncluded to sEt oFroNtYpǝs in futUrǝ ! It EAsy Noush , " HABITS OF A GREAT MAN . - 81 ...
... BOSTON Contemporary says he finds among his ex- changes the following paragraph : - " The printers are on A strike for hisher MeGeS , Me Hve Qoncluded to sEt oFroNtYpǝs in futUrǝ ! It EAsy Noush , " HABITS OF A GREAT MAN . - 81 ...
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... Boston Post says that the reason why cream is so dear is , that milk has risen so high the cream can't reach the top . ADVICE TO PARENTS . - 126 . REAR up your lads like nails , and then they'll not only go through the world , but you ...
... Boston Post says that the reason why cream is so dear is , that milk has risen so high the cream can't reach the top . ADVICE TO PARENTS . - 126 . REAR up your lads like nails , and then they'll not only go through the world , but you ...
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Página 75 - Come, now, Bates, he's not half as bad as you think. Besides that, I must tell you, he did me a good turn long ago. When I took to the law, I was going to court one morning, with some ten or twelve miles of bad road before me, and I had no horse. The judge overtook me in his wagon. 'Hallo, Lincoln! are you not going to the courthouse. Come in and I will give you a seat.
Página 150 - Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink : but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
Página 149 - And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Página 125 - I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee, "but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face.
Página 149 - Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger...
Página 196 - I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle ; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust ; can whip my weight in wild cats, — and if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill, he may throw in a panther, — hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson.
Página 224 - Freeman, was deliberately nntrne, which, he regretted to say, had been sworn to. Eminent Hospital Physicians of London stated that Dr. J. Collis Browne was the discoverer of Chlorodyne; that they prescribe it largely; and mean no other than Dr. Browne's. — See " Times,
Página 45 - Her foot is small, and has a fall Like snowflakes on the snow; And where it goes Beneath the rose, — Wouldn't you like to know? She has a name, the sweetest name That language can bestow. 'Twould break the spell If I should tell — Wouldn't you like to know? John Godfrey Saxe [1816-1887] "SING HEIGH-HO!
Página 223 - They will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any Teeth ever before used. This method does not require the Extraction of Roots, or any painful operation and will support and preserve Teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore Articulation and Mastication.
Página 119 - followed the wine, as it passed from friend to friend during dinner. MAKING THE PUDDING. WHENEVER there was a plum-pudding made, by the captain's orders, all the plums were put into one end of it, and that end placed next to the captain, who, after helping himself, passed it to the mate, who never found any plums in his part of it.