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Seite 15 - What surprises me is he didn't break his neck; but maybe it was a mule, for they're pretty sure-footed, you know. Surprising what some of these men have gone through, ain't it? "Turn over a couple of leaves. That's General Jackson. My father shook hands with him once. He was a fighter, I know. He fit down in New Orleans. Broke up the rebel legislature, and then when the KuKluxes got after him he fought 'em behind cotton breastworks and licked 'em till they couldn't stand.
Seite 10 - The school had then progressed so far in its study of the history of Rome as the Punic wars, and Mr. Barnes immediately divided the boys into two parties, one Romans and the other Carthaginians, and certain of the boys were named after the leaders upon both sides. All the boys thought it was a fine thing, and Barnes noticed that they were so anxious to get to the history lesson that they could hardly say their other lessons properly. When the time came, Barnes ranged the Romans upon one side of the...
Seite 42 - ... more mournful became the noise, and that was the only note I could get. When I went down to supper, Mrs. A. asked me if I heard that awful groaning. She said she guessed it came from Twiddler's cow, for she heard Mrs. Twiddler say yesterday that the cow was sick. For four weeks I could get nothing out of that horn but blood-curdling groans ; and, meantime, the people over the way moved to another house because our neighborhood was haunted, and three of our hired girls resigned successively for...
Seite 35 - Well, anyhow, Bradley took him up quicker'na wink, and they agreed to send up a cat in a balloon to decide the bet. So what does Bradley do but buy a balloon about twice as big as our barn and begin to — " "It was only about ten feet in diameter, Mr.
Seite 50 - And s'posin' you'd suddenly conclude that maybe your kind of an eye wasn't calculated to hold that kind of a dog, and you'd conclude to run for a plum tree in order to have a chance to collect your thoughts, and to try to reflect what sort of an eye would be best calculated to mollify that sort of a dog. You ketch my idea, of course ? " Very well, then ; s'posin you'd take your eye off of that dog, Johnson, mind you, all the time1 hissing him on and laughing, and you'd turn and rush for the tree,...
Seite 10 - They obtained a good teacher, however, and the course of affairs in the girls' department was smooth enough ; but just after the opening of the fall session there was some trouble in the boys' department. Mr. Barnes, the master, read in the Educational Monthly that boys could be taught history better than in any other way by letting each boy in the class represent some historical character, and relate the acts of that character as if he had done them himself. This struck Barnes as a mighty good idea,...
Seite 10 - Romans made a grand rally, and in five minutes they chased the entire Carthaginian army out of the school-room, and Barnes along with it; and then they locked the door and began to hunt up the apples and lunch in the desks of the enemy. After consuming the supplies they went to the windows and made disagreeable remarks to the Carthaginians, who were standing in the yard, and dared old Barnes to bring the foe once more into battle array. Then Barnes went for a policeman ; and when he knocked at the...
Seite 10 - Romans with anothei battering-ram and thumped a couple of them savagely. Then the Romans turned in, and the fight became general. A Carthaginian would grasp a Roman by the hair and hustle him around over the desk in a manner that was simply frightful, and a Roman would give a fiendish whoop and knock a Carthaginian over the head with Greenleafs Arithmetic.
Seite 35 - Oh, don't bother me ! — I say, you never heard such a yell as the balloon went scooting up into the sky, pretty near out of sight. Bradley said she went up about one thousand miles, and — now, don't interrupt me...
Seite 14 - Patriarch so's to see how the fust settlers looked and what kind of weskets they yoused to wear. See his legs, .too! Trousers a little short maybe, as if he was going to wade in a creek ; but he's all there. Got some kind of a paper in his hand, I see. Subscription list, I reckon. Now, how does that strike you? There's something nice. That I think, is — is — that a — a — yes, to be sure, Washington — you recollect him, of course ? Some people call him Father of his Country, George — Washington.