 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 Seiten
...The hubs from logs from the " Seller's ellum "— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em — Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...top, dasher, from tough old hide, Found in the pit where the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through." " There I " said the Deacon, " naow ahe'll... | |
 | 1872 - 900 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — • Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, ws I then might assuage In the ways of religion and...wisdom of age, And be cheered by the sallies of youth. blua ; HUMOROUS POEMS. Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Buot, top, dasher, from tough old... | |
 | 1872 - 514 Seiten
...— they couldn't sell 'em — Never an ax had seen their chips, THE WONDERFUL " ONE-HOSS SHA Y." 215 And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips : Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 Seiten
...hubs of logs from the " settler's ellum,"-* Last of its timber, they could n't sell 'emj Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...pit when the tanner died. That was the way he " put ber through." " There ! " said the Deacon, " naow she '11 dew !" 6. Do ! I tell you, I rather guess... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 Seiten
...; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em,— Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old bide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he " put her through."— 44 There ! "... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 Seiten
...the " Settler's elluin," Last of its timber — they conldn't sell 'em — Never an axe had seen the chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,...bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough »ld hide, Found in the pit where the tanner died. That was the way he " put her through." " There,"... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'cm, taract. And last of all the king ot the finest, bright and blue ; HUMOROUS POEMS. Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top,... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...these; The hubs of logs from the " settler's ellum " — Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em; Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery -tips ; Step and prop- iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 Seiten
...logs from the " Settler's ellum " — Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em ; 6. Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...cheese, But lasts like iron for things like ellum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright... | |
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He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum... 
