The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-west: Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches ...T. B. Peterson and brothers, 1858 - 188 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afore agin aint appeared arter bill Blessed boat boys brow cabin called captain city physician cloth commenced countenance cussed dark Dick door drink eyes fear feel fellow fire fust gave give hand head hear heard heart heerd hero holler horse Hoss inquired Jack Hinton Jerry John Judge knew laugh looked lookin Lordy lower town Mary mind Miss Mississippi Missouri Molly negro never nigger night octavo old fellar old lady paper cover passun patient poor Price One Dollar remarked road round Sally seat shouted side SIR GEORGE SIMPSON Smith soon Spiffle spile squatter steamboat stood stranger swamp doctor teeth tell Tensas thar thing thought thur Tom Sellers took turned varmint volume warn't whar whilst whiskey wimen yelled YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young younker
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - ... cept in doctor's truck, should ever come on their plantation." Feeling very thirsty, I took my way by the spring that evening. As I descended the hill o'ertopping it, I beheld the hind parts of a bear slowly being drawn into the cave. My heart bounded at the idea of killing a bear, and my plans were formed in a second. I had no dogs — the house was distant — and the bear becoming "small by degrees, and beautifully less.
Seite 14 - ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Conrt of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Seite 52 - sited at last, and her eyes 'gan to glimmer like she seen her daddy's ghost axin' ' if he ever trained up a child or a race-hoss to be 'fraid of a small brush on a Sunday/ she commenced ridin' beautiful ; she braced herself up in the saddle, and began to make calkerlations how she war to win the race, for it war nose and nose, and she saw the passun spurrin' his critter every jump. She tuk off her shoe, and the way a number ten go-to-meetin' brogan commenced givin' a hoss particular Moses, were a...
Seite 192 - Jumping in the skiff, a few vigorous strokes sent me to the opposite shore, where the singular being awaited my coming. He was a negro dwarf of the most frightful appearance ; his diminutive body was garnished with legs and arms of enormously disproportionate length ; his face was hideous : a pair of tushes projected from either side of a double hare-lip ; and taking him altogether, he was the nearest resemblance to the ourang outang mixed with the devil that human eyes ever dwelt upon. I could not...
Seite 46 - tend it ; 'sides, you jis scraped the skin. I war wus skeered than hurt, and if you'll go to the house and beg me off from the old folks, I'll never let on you cuddent tell copperas breeches from bar-skin.
Seite 42 - ... were plain, unlettered people, honest in intent and deed, but overflowing with that which amply made up for all their deficiencies of education, namely, warm-hearted hospitality, the distinguishing trait of southern character. They were originally from Virginia, from whence they had emigrated in quest of a clime more genial, and a soil more productive than that in which their fathers toiled. Their search had been rewarded, their expectations realized, and now, in their old age, though not wealthy...
Seite 175 - ... off his guard I got a fair lick ! The way that bar's flesh giv in to the soft impresshuns of that leg war an honor to the mederkal perfeshun for having invented sich a weepun ! I hollered — but you have heered me holler an' I won't describe it — I had whipped a bar in a fair hand to hand fight — me, an old sickly one-legged bar-hunter! The boys cum up, and, when they seed the ground we had fit over, they swore they would hav thought, 'stead of a bar-fight, that I had been cuttin...
Seite 48 - The hoss war a heap the wuss for age and change of masters; for preachers, though they're mity 'ticular 'bout thar own comfort, seldom tends to thar hosses, for one is privit property and 'tother generally borried. I seed from the way the preacher rid, that he didn't know the animal he war straddlin'; but I did, and I 'termined I wouldn't lose sich a chance of trainin' Colt by the side of a hoss wot had run real races.
Seite 47 - ... tend races, and have a race-colt of her own to comfort her 'clinin' years, sich as her daddy had afore her, till she got me ; so I couldn't rest for wantin' to see a hoss-race, and go shares, p'raps, in the colt she war wishin
Seite 48 - ... cept totin her and bein' called mine ; for you see, though he war named Colt, yet for the old lady to call him old, would bin like the bar 'fecting contempt for the rabbit, on account of the shortness of his tail. " Well, thought I, it does look sorter unpromisin', but its colt or none ; so I 'termined to put him in trainin' the fust chance. Last Saturday, who should cum ridin...