Wolfville NightsFrederick A. Stokes Company, 1902 - Всего страниц: 326 |
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Стр. 68 - Jesus, Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high : Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O, receive my soul at last...
Стр. 3 - By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaflected piety.—BOSWELL. 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle Staff, " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,
Стр. 52 - Gents," he says, as — hosses, hunters an' dogs — we-all gathers 'round, "gents, I moves you the Chevy Chase Huntin' Club yereby stands adjourned sine die." Thar's a moment's pause, an' then as by one impulse every gent, hoss 'an' dog, says "Ay !" It's yoonanimous, an' from that hour till now the Chevy Chase Huntin' Club ain't been nothin' save tradition. But that panther shore disappears; it's the end of his vandalage ; an' ag'in does quadrilles, pra'rs, an poker resoom their wonted sway.
Стр. 41 - ... size us up, the teacher allers plays me on 'em. I'd go to the front for the outfit. Which I'm wont on sech harrowin' o'casions to recite a ode — the teacher's done wrote it himse'f — an' which is entitled Napoleon's Mad Career. Thar's twentyfour stanzas to it; an' while these interlopin' selectmen sets thar lookin' owley an' sagacious, I'd wallop loose with the twenty-four verses, stampin' up and down, an' accompanyin' said recitations with sech a multitood of reckless gestures, it comes...
Стр. 42 - ristocrat. This captaincy of local fashion I assoomes at a tender age. I wears the record as the first child to don shoes throughout the entire summer in that neighborhood ; an' many a time an' oft does my yoothful but envy-eaten compeers lambaste me for the insultin' innovation. But I sticks to my moccasins ; an' to-day shoes in the Bloo Grass is almost as yooniversal as the licker habit. " 'Thar dawns a hour, however, when my p'sition in the van of Kaintucky ton comes within a ace of bein
Стр. 48 - Rickett boys an' forty added dogs. Which it's worth a ten-mile ride to get a glimpse of that outfit of canines ! Thar's every sort onder the canopy : thar's the stolid hound, the alert fice, the sapient collie; that is thar's individyool beasts wherein the hound, or fice, or collie seems to predominate as a strain. The trooth is thar's not that dog a-whinin' about our hosses' fetlocks who ain't proudly descended from fifteen different tribes, an' they shorely makes a motley mass meetin'. Still, they're...
Стр. 44 - ... that seminary's sereenity. Comin' to this decision, I p'ints at him where he's planted four seats ahead, all tangle'd up in a spellin' book, an' says in a loud whisper to a child who's sittin' next : ""'Throw him out!" " 'That's enough. No gent will ever realize how easy it is to direct a people's sentiment ontil he take a whirl at the game. In two minutes by the teacher's bull's-eye copper watch, every soul knows it's pore Riley; an' in three, the teacher's done drug Riley out doors by the ha'r...
Стр. 49 - Which he's goin' like a arrow; no mistake! As for us Chevy Chasers, we parallels the hunt, an' continyoos poundin' the Skinner turnpike abreast of the pack, ever an' anon givin' a encouragin' shout as we briefly sights our game. '"Gents,' says Colonel Sterett, as he ag'in refreshes hims'ef, 'it's needless to go over that hunt in detail. We hustles the flyin' demon full eighteen miles, our faithful dogs crowdin' close an' breathless at his coward heels. Still, they don't catch up with him; he streaks...
Стр. 41 - I'm ever bright an' sparklin' as a child, an' I recalls how my aptitoode for 38I19K learnin' promotes me to be regyarded as the smartest lad in my set. If thar's visitors to the school, or if the selectman invades that academy to sort o' size us up, the teacher allers plays me on 'em. I'd go to the front for the outfit. Which I'm wont on sech harrowin' o'casions to recite a ode — the teacher's done wrote it himse'f — an' which is entitled Napoleon's Mad Career.
Стр. 78 - Squaw-whohas-dreams went out of the teepee among the people an' called all the Sioux to come an' see the Raven die. So the Sioux came gladly, and the Raven was twisted an' writhen with the power of the whirlwind wrenching at his heart ; an' his teeth were tight like a trap ; an' no words, but only foam, came from his mouth ; an...
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