The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields

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C.M. Clark, 1909 - 323 páginas

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Página 16 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Página 34 - ... once we pass into the shadows, We murmur and fret and frown, And, our length from the bank, we shout for a plank, Or throw up our hands and go down. It is easy to sit in your carriage, And counsel the man on foot, But get down and walk, and you'll change your talk, As you feel the peg in your boot. It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack, But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back.
Página 261 - They that fawn'd on him before Use his company no more. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need : If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Página 185 - Yet must I bow and obey, and deliver the will of our monarch ; Namely, that all your lands, and dwellings, and cattle of all kinds Forfeited be to the crown ; and that you yourselves from this province Be transported to other lands. God grant you may dwell there Ever as faithful subjects...
Página 264 - a fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end, and a fool at the other.
Página 73 - When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Página 36 - howdy money, — goodbye money,' with me, when I sell my terbaccer, Bunch. The old lady blames me fer stickin' to hit, but I don't know nothin
Página 303 - With a velvet touch, she opened the door at the foot of the stairs that led...

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