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עמוד 17
... months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump . And you bet you he did learn him , too . He'd give him a little punch behind , and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one ...
... months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump . And you bet you he did learn him , too . He'd give him a little punch behind , and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one ...
עמוד 38
... month or two , some two - thirds of the circulars had wended back , one by one , to the pastor , silently and secretly , through the post - office , and then , without men- tioning the name of any giver or the amount of his gift , Mr ...
... month or two , some two - thirds of the circulars had wended back , one by one , to the pastor , silently and secretly , through the post - office , and then , without men- tioning the name of any giver or the amount of his gift , Mr ...
עמוד 43
... month , and be 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 ...
... month , and be 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 ...
עמוד 53
... month . I said to myself , " A man can't buy thirty blanks in one bundle . " But I was mistaken . There was never a prize ... months . The Erie road was set down as the most mur- derous in the list . It had killed forty - six - or twenty ...
... month . I said to myself , " A man can't buy thirty blanks in one bundle . " But I was mistaken . There was never a prize ... months . The Erie road was set down as the most mur- derous in the list . It had killed forty - six - or twenty ...
עמוד 54
... months — the population of New York city . Well , the Erie kills from thirteen to twenty - three persons out of its million in six months ; and in the same time 13,000 of New York's million die in their beds ! My flesh crept , my hair ...
... months — the population of New York city . Well , the Erie kills from thirteen to twenty - three persons out of its million in six months ; and in the same time 13,000 of New York's million die in their beds ! My flesh crept , my hair ...
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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...