One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose Volume 22 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...the family, sartin." The old man called me out into the road. "I understand," he said, " that yer 'lowed four shillin' by law for splicin' people. Now, 'squire, that hits me aa being a 1-e-e-tle steep. Ye know I voted fur you more'n once, s-n' I think you orter call this job three-an'-six. The.creation o' gittin' here an' back orter to be worth more'n the extra sixpence 'squire." I was so mad that I could have crammed my hat down the old man's throat. But I said I'd take the three-andsix. "Wall, ra(juire," said the bark-pealer, "I ain't sold no hoop-poles yit this season, but I'll be down 'lection day or Thanksgiven, an' hand you them figgera. Or say, 'squire, if you kin use some groun'-hog--" That was about ail I cared to hear just then. I rattled my buck-board away from there as fast as I could. I met Tobe about half a mile down the road, slouching along the edge of the woods. I heard afterward that they never saw him again, and that Mag charged Jerry with selling him on the sly, and went to Milford to see if that wasn't ground for a divorce. But they never charged me with shooting the dog and throwing it into the woods, as some folks have said they did. THE OLD KNIGHT'S TREASURE--Hrney Morfoed. Sir John was old, and grim, and gray; The cares of sixty years he bore; The charm of youth had withered away From his iron features long before. In his dull old house of blackened stone, With servants quaint, and tried, and few, For many a year he had lived alone, As the harsh, and the cold, and the heartless do. There was plate on his sideboard, --plate of price; His pouch had ruddy gold at need; And twenty men might well suffice The lands he held by dower and deed. He had lived, the world said, much too long; He h...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...the family, sartin." The old man called me out into the road. "I understand," he said, " that yer 'lowed four shillin' by law for splicin' people. Now, 'squire, that hits me aa being a 1-e-e-tle steep. Ye know I voted fur you more'n once, s-n' I think you orter call this job three-an'-six. The.creation o' gittin' here an' back orter to be worth more'n the extra sixpence 'squire." I was so mad that I could have crammed my hat down the old man's throat. But I said I'd take the three-andsix. "Wall, ra(juire," said the bark-pealer, "I ain't sold no hoop-poles yit this season, but I'll be down 'lection day or Thanksgiven, an' hand you them figgera. Or say, 'squire, if you kin use some groun'-hog--" That was about ail I cared to hear just then. I rattled my buck-board away from there as fast as I could. I met Tobe about half a mile down the road, slouching along the edge of the woods. I heard afterward that they never saw him again, and that Mag charged Jerry with selling him on the sly, and went to Milford to see if that wasn't ground for a divorce. But they never charged me with shooting the dog and throwing it into the woods, as some folks have said they did. THE OLD KNIGHT'S TREASURE--Hrney Morfoed. Sir John was old, and grim, and gray; The cares of sixty years he bore; The charm of youth had withered away From his iron features long before. In his dull old house of blackened stone, With servants quaint, and tried, and few, For many a year he had lived alone, As the harsh, and the cold, and the heartless do. There was plate on his sideboard, --plate of price; His pouch had ruddy gold at need; And twenty men might well suffice The lands he held by dower and deed. He had lived, the world said, much too long; He h...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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102

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978-1-236-34424-3

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9781236344243

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