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Page 64
... keep them quiet , and no more , for fear of what folks a thousand miles off would say ! You've heard of the jackass that was scar't at a penny trumpet , well , these jackasses are ― - - scar't at what isn't louder than a penny trumpet ...
... keep them quiet , and no more , for fear of what folks a thousand miles off would say ! You've heard of the jackass that was scar't at a penny trumpet , well , these jackasses are ― - - scar't at what isn't louder than a penny trumpet ...
Page 67
... keeps , so it's all the same in the long run . Folks ought to be accommodating , these times . Now , if they're ... keep altering and altering the laws , till nobody knows what the law is . That's a pretty principle , to be sure ...
... keeps , so it's all the same in the long run . Folks ought to be accommodating , these times . Now , if they're ... keep altering and altering the laws , till nobody knows what the law is . That's a pretty principle , to be sure ...
Page 68
... keeping up the reputation of the state , and a great deal more stuff of the same sort ; but it's all humbug ! nothing else ; and he has an axe to grind just like the rest of us ; and worse than all , gentlemen , as you very well know ...
... keeping up the reputation of the state , and a great deal more stuff of the same sort ; but it's all humbug ! nothing else ; and he has an axe to grind just like the rest of us ; and worse than all , gentlemen , as you very well know ...
Page 70
... keeping with the beginning which we have described ; and such was the disgust with which it inspired Seymour , that he at length concluded to quit the field , and tell Mr. Hay frankly that it was impossible for him to further the ...
... keeping with the beginning which we have described ; and such was the disgust with which it inspired Seymour , that he at length concluded to quit the field , and tell Mr. Hay frankly that it was impossible for him to further the ...
Page 94
... of procuring any- thing like comfortable domestic service grew to be an intolerable evil . The cottage , with all its charms ( and they were many ) , re- quired yet this addition - somebody to keep it clean 94 FOREST LIFE .
... of procuring any- thing like comfortable domestic service grew to be an intolerable evil . The cottage , with all its charms ( and they were many ) , re- quired yet this addition - somebody to keep it clean 94 FOREST LIFE .
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