The New Purchase, Or, Early Years in the Far West, Volum 1,Parts 1-2J.R. Nunemacher, 1855 - 471 pàgines |
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Pàgina 252 - twas only sich a thin patch of a book as that." In a few weeks, to my no small surprise, Mr. Solomon Rapid again presented himself; and drawing forth the book began with a triumphant expression of countenance: "Well, sir, I have done the Latin." "Done the Latin!" "Yes, I can read it as fast as English." "Read it as fast as English!!
Pàgina 51 - Nanny remained near the dutch oven to keep us supplied with red-hot pones, or corn-balls — and hard enough to do execution from cannon. The teacups used, held a scant pint ; and to do exact justice to each cup, the mistress held the teapot in one hand and the water-pot in the other, pouring from both at once till the cup was brim-full of the mixture : — an admirable system of impartiality, and if the pots have spouts of equal diameters, the very way to make precisely
Pàgina 250 - Indeed it is, Mr. Jimmy — have you been looking into it?" "Looking into it ! I have been all through this here fust part ; and by election time, I allow I'll be ready for examination." "Indeed!" "Yes, sir ! but it is such a pretty thing ! Only to think of cyphering by letters! Why, sir, the sums come out, and bring the answers exactly like figures. Jist stop a minute — look here: a stands for 6, and b stands for 8, and c stands for 4, and d stands for figure 10; now if I say...
Pàgina 150 - sasses?" for we had 'biled petaturs!" — and "smashed petaturs !" — and "petatursis !" ie potatoes rolled into balls as big as marbles, and baked brown. And there were "bil'd ingins!" — "fried ingins!" — and "ingins out of this here pie !" Yes, and beets of all known colours and unknown tastes ! — all pickled in salt and vinegar and something else ! And there were pickled cucumbers, as far as salt and water could go; and "punkun-butter !" — and "punkun-jelle!" — and corn bread in all...
Pàgina 199 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Pàgina 149 - ... of something, and ours, to eat ! eat ! cat I The dishes next. First, then, and middlemost, an enormous pot-pie, and piping hot, graced our centre, overpowering, with its fragrance and steam, the odors and vapors of all other meats : and potpie was the wedding dish of our purchase, par excellence ! The pie to-day was the doughy sepulchre of at least six hens, two chanticleers, and four pullets...
Pàgina 49 - ... topped off when high enough with flag stones. It was, moreover, daubed, and so admirably, as to look like a mud stack ! That, however, was, as I afterwards found, inartistical — the daubing of chimneys correctly being a very nice task, although just as dirty as political daubing. The inside cabin had one room below and one loft above — to which, however, was no visible ascent. I think the folks climbed up at the corner. The room contained principally beds, the other furniture being a table,...
Pàgina 88 - Our cabin was in truth a cabin of the Rough Order ; for reader, the orders of cabin architecture are various like those of the Greek ; for instance — the Scotched Order. In this, logs are hacked longitudinally and a slice taken from one side, the primitive bark being left on the other sides. The scotching, however] is usually done for pastime by the boys and young women, while the men are cutting or hauling other timbers. The Hewed Order — in which logs, like the stones for Solomon's Temple,...
Pàgina 459 - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Pàgina 363 - I'm gwyin to give most purtikurlust 'zactest 'count of the juul atween lilly Davy and ole Goliawh the jiunt, to show, lubly sinnah ! how the Lord's peepul without no carnul gun nor sword, can fite ole Bellzybub and knock um over with the sling rock of prayer, as lilly Davy knock over Goliawh with hissin out of the Branch. " And to 'lusterut the juul and make um spikus, I'll show 'zactly how they talk'd, and jawd, and fit it all out : and so ole Goliawh when he see Davy a kumun, he hollurs out so,...