A New Home - Who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western LifeC. S. Francis, 1841 - 298 Seiten |
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A New Home - Who'll Follow? Glimpses of Western Life Caroline Matilda Kirkland Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1965 |
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Seite 69 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 97 - By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child.
Seite 13 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Seite 110 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake; His coward lips did from their...
Seite 34 - Mother wants your sifter, and she says she guesses you can let her have some sugar and tea, 'cause you've got plenty.
Seite 34 - ... your wheelbarrows, your shovels, your utensils of all sorts, belong, not to yourself, but to the public, who do not think it necessary even to ask a loan, but take it for granted. The two saddles and bridles of Montacute spend most of their time travelling from house to house a-man-back; and I have actually known a stray martingale to be traced to four dwellings two miles apart, having been lent from one to another, without a word to the...
Seite 37 - Doubleday's usual sagacity when he made choice of his Polly, I am sure I never could guess; but he is certainly the only man in the wide world who could possibly have lived with her; and he makes her a most excellent husband. She is possessed with a neat devil; I have known many such cases; her floor is scoured every night, after all are in bed but the unlucky scrubber, Betsey, the maid of all work; and woe to the unfortunate "indifiddle," as neighbor Jenkins says, who first sets dirty boot on it...
Seite 36 - I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon." The Quaker is made to reply, "Friend, it shall be done"; and I wish I possessed more of his spirit But I did not intend to write a chapter on involuntary loans ; I have a story to tell. One of my best neighbors is Mr.
Seite 37 - The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed ; and generally it is good to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus with his hundred eyes, and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands, first to watch and then to speed ; for the helmet of Pluto...
Seite 38 - Yes, yes ; and it would be plenty clean enough for you if there had been forty horses in here.' Philo on some such occasion waited till his Polly had stepped out of the room, and then with a bit of chalk wrote on the...