 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 326 pages
...interest tourists who cross " the plains " by railway. It is from Mark Twain'a " Roughing it": — " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony-rider ' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...and stirring incidents enlivened every fleeting mile. One object we were momentarily expecting, and in a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' ' pony-rider " — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento,... | |
 | Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...interest tourists who cross " the plains " by railway. It is from Mark Twain's " Roughing it": — " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching' for the ' pony-rider ' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...and stirring incidents enlivened every fleeting mile. One object we were momentarily expecting, and in a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' ' pony-rider " — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento,... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...interest tourists who cross " the plains " by railway. It is from Mark Twain's " Roughing it": — " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony-rider ' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying... | |
 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Express service - 1881 - 452 pages
...the companies operating the Pony Express. In " Houghing It," Mark Twain thus describes the Pony : " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony-rider ' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Jo. to Sacramento, carrying... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...from Mark Twain's "Roughing it," will interest tourists who cross "the plains " by railway : — " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony-rider' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St Joe to Sacramento, carrying... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1884 - 486 pages
...from Mark Twain's "Roughmg it," will interest tourists who cross ' ' the plains " by railway : — "In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching...continent from St Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters 1900 miles in eight days ! Think of that for perishable horse and human flesh and blood to do ! The... | |
 | Lady Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent - Voyages around the world - 1886 - 470 pages
...now is very different to that described by Mark Twain in his reminiscences in " Roughing It:"— " In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony rider'—the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1892 - 616 pages
...the horse till morning. And — you need not speak of this foolishness to the boys." CHAPTER VIII. FN a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our -*- necks and watching for the " pony-rider " — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying... | |
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IN A LITTLE WHILE all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "'pony-rider" — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! Think of that... 
