Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 páginas |
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... Colonel Grice gets Mad A Genial Fellow ...... .... Playing Horse .... The Crow and the Fox A French Cook .... " Two Dollahs " .... PAGE 124 127 130 131 134 136 137 140 141 143 146 152 . 156 165 166 169 170 187 190 194 196 199 200 220 ...
... Colonel Grice gets Mad A Genial Fellow ...... .... Playing Horse .... The Crow and the Fox A French Cook .... " Two Dollahs " .... PAGE 124 127 130 131 134 136 137 140 141 143 146 152 . 156 165 166 169 170 187 190 194 196 199 200 220 ...
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... Colonel Jack Weakens .. 351 Josiah W. Perkins ...... .. 352 Talking Under Difficulties 354 “ Tramp ! Tramp ! Tramp ! ” 361 363 The Parson's Wife ... 367 370 374 375 Keeping up a Fire .. A Taste for Young Darkies The Lady from ...
... Colonel Jack Weakens .. 351 Josiah W. Perkins ...... .. 352 Talking Under Difficulties 354 “ Tramp ! Tramp ! Tramp ! ” 361 363 The Parson's Wife ... 367 370 374 375 Keeping up a Fire .. A Taste for Young Darkies The Lady from ...
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... Colonel Sellers at Home . 602 614 General Boswell 622 Office Seekers .... The Alarmed Skipper . Going After the Gun .. The Old Hunter . ... The Grasshopper and the Ant . An Interesting Story .. A Flank Movement . The Colonel Richard H ...
... Colonel Sellers at Home . 602 614 General Boswell 622 Office Seekers .... The Alarmed Skipper . Going After the Gun .. The Old Hunter . ... The Grasshopper and the Ant . An Interesting Story .. A Flank Movement . The Colonel Richard H ...
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... THE quickest way to take the starch out wuss blameing himself , iz to agree with him . looking for . ov a man who iz all- This aint what he iz JOSH BILLINGS THE EXPENSIVE TREAT OF COLONEL MOSES GRICE . BY RICHARD BALLAD . 205.
... THE quickest way to take the starch out wuss blameing himself , iz to agree with him . looking for . ov a man who iz all- This aint what he iz JOSH BILLINGS THE EXPENSIVE TREAT OF COLONEL MOSES GRICE . BY RICHARD BALLAD . 205.
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... Colonel Moses Grice , of the Fourteenth Regi- ment Georgia Militia , though he was a man thirty - five years old , over six feet high , of proportional weight , owned a good planta- tion and at least twenty negroes , and had seen the ...
... Colonel Moses Grice , of the Fourteenth Regi- ment Georgia Militia , though he was a man thirty - five years old , over six feet high , of proportional weight , owned a good planta- tion and at least twenty negroes , and had seen the ...
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agin ain't ARTEMUS WARD asked began Brer Fox Brer Rabbit calamus root called Captain cayote Colonel Grice dear dollars door eyes father feel feet feller folks give goin gone Governor Dorr Grand Vizier hand head heard heart Hodja horse hoss hour JOSH BILLINGS Josiah Kitty knew lady laugh looked MARK TWAIN Mimir mind Miss morning never night nothin once Pedrigo person Peterkin Phil Adams Potiphar pretty Pumpilion remark replied Rip Van Winkle round seemed sezee Shipwreck Clerk Simon smile soon sort stood story sure talk tell thar there's thet thing thought tion told took turned Uncle Uncle Ben Uncle Remus W. D. HOWELLS walked Washington woman word young
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Página 506 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Página 158 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Página 87 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Página 357 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Página 545 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 505 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown : " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Página 98 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Página 89 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Página 151 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Página 149 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.