 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 էջ
...strain ; 'n' the way t" fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he...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, Never an axe... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 էջ
...strain ; V the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T make that place uz strong uz the rest.* So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he...That was for spokes and floor and sills ; He sent for lanoewood to make the thills ; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest tree* The panels of white-wood,... | |
 | 1859 - 418 էջ
...Is only jest To make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folks Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't...make the thills ; The cross-bars were ash, from the straightcst trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things... | |
 | 1861 - 304 էջ
...rest." So the Deaeon inquired of the village folk "Where he eould find the strongest oak, That eouldn't be split, nor bent, nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for laneewood to make the thills ;' The erossbars were ash, from the straightest trees ; The panels of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 էջ
...way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes...But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 էջ
...strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills ; He sent for lancewood... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 էջ
...5 So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split, nor bent, nor broke, — That was for spokes,...But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em; Never an... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 էջ
...strain ; V the way f fix it, uz, I maintain, Is only jest T make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split, nor bent, nor broke, — That was for spokes, and floor, and sills ; He sent for... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 էջ
...strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest To make that place uz strSng uz the rest." 5. So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he...like these ; The hubs from logs from the " Settler's Ellum"— Last of its timber—they couldn't sell 'em— Never an ax had seen their chips, And the... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 էջ
...strain ; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest To make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split, nor bent, nor broke — That was for spokes, and floor, and sills ; He sent for... | |
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T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills;... 
