Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old

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American Publishing Company, 1875 - 320 עמודים

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עמוד 64 - 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.
עמוד 77 - regarded as very good in Dutch Flat. I give a specimen verse:— " The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of his spears was like stars
עמוד 33 - 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
עמוד 36 - took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley's, and set down to wait. So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail
עמוד 32 - and sincerity, which showed me plainly that, so far from his' imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse. I let him go on in his own way, and never interrupted him once.
עמוד 34 - Webster was the name of the frog—and sing out, " Flies, Dan'l, flies ! " and quicker'n you could wink he'd spring straight up and snake a fly ofFn the counter there, and flop down on the floor ag'in as. solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as
עמוד 36 - 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 34 - so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do 'most anything —and I believe him. Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this
עמוד 33 - as if they warn't going to save her ; but one * ' morning he come in, and Smiley up and asked him how she was, and he said she was considable better—thank the Lord for his inf'nit mercy—and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Prov'dence she'd get well yet; and Smiley, before he thought says, " Well, I'll resk two-and-a-half
עמוד 34 - 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. It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson,

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