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... writing in the character of a showman , but " every travelling show that happened to touch the place found in him a patron , " says Mr. Townsend in a newspaper sketch of his life , " and he was most generally behind the scenes happy as ...
... writing in the character of a showman , but " every travelling show that happened to touch the place found in him a patron , " says Mr. Townsend in a newspaper sketch of his life , " and he was most generally behind the scenes happy as ...
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... writing should occupy his pen . In The Innocents Abroad the reader has to be watchful and quick to discern when he is serious and when in fun . In ... written by man . The ་ passenger who could not read this book saw nothing MARK TWAIN . 33.
... writing should occupy his pen . In The Innocents Abroad the reader has to be watchful and quick to discern when he is serious and when in fun . In ... written by man . The ་ passenger who could not read this book saw nothing MARK TWAIN . 33.
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... written since . This was the first of his writing which made any appreciable stir in this coun- try ; but so happily did it hit every reader here that the British public wanted more from the same rich and ready source a source from ...
... written since . This was the first of his writing which made any appreciable stir in this coun- try ; but so happily did it hit every reader here that the British public wanted more from the same rich and ready source a source from ...
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... written , the almost complete ruin of Mark Twain has been reported by the failure of the large pub- lishing firm of Charles L. Webster & Co. , in Boston , of which , for many years , he had been the chief partner . And at the present ...
... written , the almost complete ruin of Mark Twain has been reported by the failure of the large pub- lishing firm of Charles L. Webster & Co. , in Boston , of which , for many years , he had been the chief partner . And at the present ...
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... books , where they will discover the flowers for them- selves and enjoy them all the more in their original set- ting in the body of his well written text . 1 I shall only further say here , long live MARK TWAIN . 59.
... books , where they will discover the flowers for them- selves and enjoy them all the more in their original set- ting in the body of his well written text . 1 I shall only further say here , long live MARK TWAIN . 59.
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Страница 119 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Страница 222 - Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smoke-stacks fell, — And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He...
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Страница 112 - ... lancewood to make the thills ; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels, of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," Last of its timber— they couldn't sell 'em.
Страница 113 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Страница 221 - And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied; I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river; To mind the pilot's bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, A thousand times he swore He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And...
Страница 114 - Huddup!' said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n '-house on the hill.
Страница 112 - n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: "Fur," said the Deacon, '"t's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Страница 120 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Страница 103 - MY aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her, — though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ampler than her life, For life is but a span.