 Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts,...  A History of American Literature Since 1870 - Seite 45von Fred Lewis Pattee - 1917 - 449 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 782 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, '• Steam-boat a-comin'!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 652 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin'!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 442 Seiten
...negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin'!w and the scene changes! The town drunkard stirs, the...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1902 - 532 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' ! " and the scene changes ! The town drunkard...in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. — MARK TWAIN. 8. The twilight swallows the thicket, The starlight reveals the ridge; The whistle... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1908 - 504 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Julia Henderson Levering - 1909 - 806 Seiten
...the lookout for trade yells, " Steamboat a-comin'," and the scene changes. The town drunkards stir; the clerks wake up; a furious clatter of drays follows. Every house and store pours out its human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts, men,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1910 - 188 Seiten
...clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays, every house and store pours out a human contri25 bution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1910 - 184 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin'!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard...stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...instantly a negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon... | |
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