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מתוך הספר
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עמוד 55
... hanged , poisoned , or meet a similarly violent death in some other popular way , such as perishing by kerosene lamp and hoop - skirt conflagrations , getting buried in coal - mines , falling off housetops , breaking through church or ...
... hanged , poisoned , or meet a similarly violent death in some other popular way , such as perishing by kerosene lamp and hoop - skirt conflagrations , getting buried in coal - mines , falling off housetops , breaking through church or ...
עמוד 108
... hanged ! It's a raft ! " When this questionable passenger came on board the ship he brought nothing with him but an old newspaper containing a handkerchief marked " B. G. , " one cotton sock marked " L. W. C. , " one woollen one marked ...
... hanged ! It's a raft ! " When this questionable passenger came on board the ship he brought nothing with him but an old newspaper containing a handkerchief marked " B. G. , " one cotton sock marked " L. W. C. , " one woollen one marked ...
עמוד 110
... hanged in America , and while there received injuries which terminated in his death . The great grandson of the " Reformer " flourished in sixteen hundred and something , and was known in our annals as " the old Admiral , " though in ...
... hanged in America , and while there received injuries which terminated in his death . The great grandson of the " Reformer " flourished in sixteen hundred and something , and was known in our annals as " the old Admiral , " though in ...
עמוד 113
... hanged . It is not well , when writing an autobiography , to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time- it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great - grandfather , and then skip from there to yourself , which I now do ...
... hanged . It is not well , when writing an autobiography , to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time- it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great - grandfather , and then skip from there to yourself , which I now do ...
עמוד 137
... hanged without the shadow of a doubt . As it was , it required all his poli- tical and family influence to get him clear in one of the cases , and cost him not less than 10,000 dollars to get clear in the other . One of these men he had ...
... hanged without the shadow of a doubt . As it was , it required all his poli- tical and family influence to get him clear in one of the cases , and cost him not less than 10,000 dollars to get clear in the other . One of these men he had ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 19 - ... 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 forepaws even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 18 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.
עמוד 15 - If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush, or you'd 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...
עמוד 14 - W. Smiley — a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that, if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
עמוד 17 - ... grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and...
עמוד 20 - 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 19 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out...
עמוד 19 - 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, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 15 - ... that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him.
עמוד 14 - There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 — or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly...