Nature and human nature, by the author of 'Sam Slick, the clockmaker'. |
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... poor printer boy , nor Washington , and he was only a land - surveyor , and they growed to be ' some punkins ' too . " An American clockmaker aint like a European one . He may not be as good a workman as t'other one , but he can do some ...
... poor printer boy , nor Washington , and he was only a land - surveyor , and they growed to be ' some punkins ' too . " An American clockmaker aint like a European one . He may not be as good a workman as t'other one , but he can do some ...
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... poor game , like us little fore and afters . " " As you like , " he said , " but we are prepared , you see , for the mate and men understand the whole thing . It aint the first time they have escaped by changing their sign - board ...
... poor game , like us little fore and afters . " " As you like , " he said , " but we are prepared , you see , for the mate and men understand the whole thing . It aint the first time they have escaped by changing their sign - board ...
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... poor little fellow , quite dead , and yet warm . " In the meantime , Thunder , who had watched our proceedings from a distance , as soon as he saw the body exhumed , felt as if there was a court - martial holding over him- self ...
... poor little fellow , quite dead , and yet warm . " In the meantime , Thunder , who had watched our proceedings from a distance , as soon as he saw the body exhumed , felt as if there was a court - martial holding over him- self ...
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... poor wretches that float ashore here from the deep have . It's a hard life , my friend , going to sea , and hard shores sailors knock against some- times , and still harder hearts they often find there . A stone in the end of a stocking ...
... poor wretches that float ashore here from the deep have . It's a hard life , my friend , going to sea , and hard shores sailors knock against some- times , and still harder hearts they often find there . A stone in the end of a stocking ...
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... for the rich give out of their abundance , the poor from their last cup and their last loaf ; one is the gift of station , the other the gift of the heart . " " Indeed then , she is mistakened , man . 94 A CRITTUR WITH A THOUSAND VIRTUES.
... for the rich give out of their abundance , the poor from their last cup and their last loaf ; one is the gift of station , the other the gift of the heart . " " Indeed then , she is mistakened , man . 94 A CRITTUR WITH A THOUSAND VIRTUES.
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