| 1833 - 250 pages
...life, and I got up, but I don't know why or wherefore, and began to grope about in the dark; the first thing I hit agin was a tree: it felt mighty slick...; so we loaded our horses, and -set out for home." CHAPTER VII. GENTLE reader, I know of no more agreeable way to commence this chapter, than by giving... | |
| 1833 - 250 pages
...down for three or four hours, and when day first began to break, I was going up that tree. As seon as it was cleverly. light, I saw before me a slim...; so we loaded our horses, and set out for home." I CHAPTER VII. GENTLE reader, I know of no more agreeable way to commence this chapter, than by giving... | |
| 1837 - 226 pages
...life, and I got up, but I don't know why or wherefore, and began to grope about in the dark ; the first thing I hit agin was a tree : it felt mighty slick...; so we loaded our horses, and set out for home." CHAPTER VII. GENTLE reader, I know of no more agreeable way to commence this chapter, than by giving... | |
| James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...I saw before me a slim sweet gum, so slick, that it looked like every varmunt in the woods had beeu sliding down it for a month. I started off and found...; so we loaded our horses, and set out for home." This, I think, is the most remarkable narrative of the kind ever put upon paper. It has haunted me... | |
| James Parton - Biography - 1874 - 726 pages
...but I don't know why or wherefore, and began to grope about in the dark ; the first thing I hit again was a tree : it felt mighty slick and icy as I hugged...; so we loaded our horses, and set out for home." This, I think, is the most remarkable narrative of the kind ever put upon paper. It has haunted me... | |
| James Parton - Biography - 1883 - 860 pages
...described ; had been all night on the brink of a dreadful chasm, where a slip of a few feet would haxe brought about instant death. It almost made my head...carry; so we loaded our horses, and set out for home." This, I think, is the most remarkable narrative of the kind ever put upon paper. It has haunted me... | |
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