Hickock gentry and the Bill Snivel men. " If dandy Hickock gets in," says a squint-eyed man with a twisted nose, " I've got a rooster-pigeon — I'll pick his feathers bare, stick a pipestem in his claw, friz his top-knot, and offer him as a stumpcandidate... The Motley Book: A Series of Tales and Sketches - Seite 84von Cornelius Mathews - 1838 - 190 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 Seiten
...man with a twisted nose, "I've got a rooster-pigeon — I'll pick his feathers bare, stick a pipestem in his claw, friz his top-knot, and offer him as a...he's got a comb," said the tall inspector, stooping towards the shouters, " it's more than what Bill Snivel's head has seen this two and forty years !... | |
| Cornelius Mathews - 1863 - 382 Seiten
...Can your rooster-pigeon spell his owu name, Crossfire 7" asked a tall Hiekock streetinspector — " if he can't, you'd better put him a quarter under Bill Snivel ; it would be аз good as an infant school for him !" " I think I'd better take my little bantamcock," retorted... | |
| Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 Seiten
...with a twisted nose, " I've got a rooster-pigeon — I'll pick his feathers bare, stick a pipestem in his claw, friz his top-knot, and offer him as a...he's got a comb," said the tall inspector, stooping towards the shouters, "it's more than what Bill Snivel's head has seen this two and forty years ! "... | |
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