 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 386 էջ
...or not, we never receive the [244] slightest incivility from them. In selling, they always take care to ask enough, as they can fall their price with a...for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents. (is. 1jd.) Another failing in their character is drunkenness; and they are extremely quarrelsome when intoxicated.... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 376 էջ
...or not, we never receive the [244] slightest incivility from them. In selling, they always take care to ask enough, as they can fall their price with a...brought for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents, (1s. 1jd.) Another failing in their character is drunkenness; and they are extremely quarrelsome when... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 376 էջ
...or not, we never receive the [244] slightest incivility from them. In selling, they always take care to ask enough, as they can fall their price with a...brought for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents, (1s. 1$d.) Another failing in their character is drunkenness; and they are extremely quarrelsome when... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 372 էջ
...or not, we never receive the [244] slightest incivility from them. In selling, they always take care to ask enough, as they can fall their price with a...for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents, (is. i\d.) Another failing in their character is drunkenness; and they are extremely quarrelsome when intoxicated.... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 668 էջ
...Harper's lawyers bankrupted that stubborn litigant. 76., 11. The people were extraordinarily litigious: 'I have known a lawsuit brought for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents.' Woods: Thwaites, x, 317. Attending court was a principal means of diversion; and the settlers gathered... | |
 | Howard Schweber - 2004 - 314 էջ
...but also as shrewd traders. Woods was also struck by the litigiousness of the residents of the town. "Most of them are well acquainted with law, and fond...brought for a piggin or pail, of the value of 25 cents." Most important, for Woods, was their civic political culture. "They are a most determined set of republicans,"... | |
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... slightest incivility from them. In selling, they always take care to ask enough, as they can fall their price with a good ^ grace; in short, they are Jews in this respect, nor are they very punctual in their payments. Most of them are well acquainted... 