Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 páginas |
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... small bull - pup , that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent but to set around and look ornery , and lay for a chance to steal something . But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog ; THE JUMPINg frog . 3.
... small bull - pup , that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent but to set around and look ornery , and lay for a chance to steal something . But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog ; THE JUMPINg frog . 3.
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... soon as he felt the prick of the hook , was off like a shot , and took out the whole of the line with a rapidity that made it smoke . " Give him the butt ! " shouted Luke . It is the usual remark in such an emergency . I gave him the ...
... soon as he felt the prick of the hook , was off like a shot , and took out the whole of the line with a rapidity that made it smoke . " Give him the butt ! " shouted Luke . It is the usual remark in such an emergency . I gave him the ...
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... soon ended her sufferings - and his ; then silently stole away , leaving the Villager deeply and doubly in its Debt . Moral - A Virtuous Action is not always its only Reward . A Snake in the Grass is Worth two in the Boot . HOW WE ...
... soon ended her sufferings - and his ; then silently stole away , leaving the Villager deeply and doubly in its Debt . Moral - A Virtuous Action is not always its only Reward . A Snake in the Grass is Worth two in the Boot . HOW WE ...
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... soon crowded with broken - down gun - carriages , and his barn with guns , like an arsenal . When Silas's purpose got wind , it was astonishing how valuable that thing became which just now was worth nothing at all . " Ha , ha ...
... soon crowded with broken - down gun - carriages , and his barn with guns , like an arsenal . When Silas's purpose got wind , it was astonishing how valuable that thing became which just now was worth nothing at all . " Ha , ha ...
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... soon procured a gimlet from his carefully kept tool - chest . Before long we had the gun in working order . A newspaper lashed to the end of a lath served as a swab to dust out the bore . Jack Harris blew through the touch - hole and ...
... soon procured a gimlet from his carefully kept tool - chest . Before long we had the gun in working order . A newspaper lashed to the end of a lath served as a swab to dust out the bore . Jack Harris blew through the touch - hole and ...
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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.