Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old: Now First Published in Complete FormAmerican Publishing Company, 1893 - 320 עמודים |
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עמוד 39
... happy heart , and go and tell his mother all about it , and beg her forgiveness , and be blessed by her with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes . No ; that is the way with all other bad boys in the books ; but it happened ...
... happy heart , and go and tell his mother all about it , and beg her forgiveness , and be blessed by her with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes . No ; that is the way with all other bad boys in the books ; but it happened ...
עמוד 41
... happy . No ; it would have happened that way in the books , but it didn't happen that way to Jim . No meddling old clam of a justice dropped in to make trouble , and so the model boy George got thrashed , and Jim was glad of it because ...
... happy . No ; it would have happened that way in the books , but it didn't happen that way to Jim . No meddling old clam of a justice dropped in to make trouble , and so the model boy George got thrashed , and Jim was glad of it because ...
עמוד 48
... happy ; and he brought him home and fed him , but when he was going to pet him the dog flew at him and tore all the clothes off him except those that were in front , and made a spectacle of him that was astonishing . He examined ...
... happy ; and he brought him home and fed him , but when he was going to pet him the dog flew at him and tore all the clothes off him except those that were in front , and made a spectacle of him that was astonishing . He examined ...
עמוד 61
... happy ? Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war path , or is his heart contented with dream- ing of the dusky maiden , the Pride of the Forest ? Does the mighty Sachem yearn to drink the blood of his enemies , or is he ...
... happy ? Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war path , or is his heart contented with dream- ing of the dusky maiden , the Pride of the Forest ? Does the mighty Sachem yearn to drink the blood of his enemies , or is he ...
עמוד 63
... happy and tomahawk your families , has played the everlasting mischief with the picturesque pomp of your dress , and here you are , in the broad light of the nineteeth century , gotten up like the rag- tag and bobtail of the purlieus of ...
... happy and tomahawk your families , has played the everlasting mischief with the picturesque pomp of your dress , and here you are , in the broad light of the nineteeth century , gotten up like the rag- tag and bobtail of the purlieus of ...
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עמוד 53 - ... Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. Those joyous hours are passed away; And many a heart that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone — That tuneful peal will still ring on; While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells. THOSE ANNUAL BILLS BY MARK TWAIN These annual bills! these annual bills! How many a song their discord trills Of...
עמוד 14 - But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky ; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance ; there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I was just telling you.
עמוד 15 - ... find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was a camp-meeting, he would be there reg'lar to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here; and so he was, too, and a good man.
עמוד 16 - ... fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that — and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards...
עמוד 72 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
עמוד 21 - ... and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him. And— (Here Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the front yard, and got up to see what was wanted.) And turning to me as he moved away, he said: "Just set where you are, stranger, and rest easy— I ain't going to be gone a second.
עמוד 18 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.' "And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?' " 'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, 1 should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 17 - Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tomcats and all them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he...
עמוד 17 - ... peared surprised, and then he looked sorter discouraged-like and didn't try no more to win the fight, and so he got shucked out bad. He give Smiley a look, as much as to say his heart was broke, and it was his fault for putting up a dog that hadn't no hind legs for him to take holt of, which was his main dependence in a fight, and then he limped off a piece and laid down and died.
עמוד 14 - ... man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides. Any way that suited the other man would suit him — any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied.