Sketches, New and OldHarper & brothers, 1917 - 389 עמודים |
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asked avait began believe bien bill bless Cæsar Capitoline Venus Cardiff Giant chance cheerful Chemung County clerk Conchology Conrad creature dead distress dollars door editor face feel fell Fisher frog gentlemen George Fisher give gone grenouille hand hanged happy head heard heart honor hour hundred Indians insane insanity plea jist kill knew lady legs light lightning-rods little boy live look MARK TWAIN married matter ment mind Mormon trail morning Mound Builder never niggers night noble Old Red Sandstone once paper petrifaction Petrified poor Professor Woodlouse qu'il remark seemed seven-up Simon Wheeler Smiley sort stranger talk tell thing thought thousand tion told took Tumble-Bug turned Virginia City waited watch week woman word Written about 1870 young
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עמוד 11 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin - and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says: 'Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 11 - Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 11 - And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, 'It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't - it's only just a frog.
עמוד 60 - 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 11 - Smiley is a myth that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley...
עמוד 11 - 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 244 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
עמוד 11 - ... the fences, and kicking up more dust and raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose — and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down. "And he had a little small...
עמוד 11 - ... 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 159 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.