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Page 8
... true . It is only in the most common - place parts ( if there be comparisons ) that I have any leasing - making to answer for . It will of course be observed that Miss Mitford's charming sketches of village life must have suggested the ...
... true . It is only in the most common - place parts ( if there be comparisons ) that I have any leasing - making to answer for . It will of course be observed that Miss Mitford's charming sketches of village life must have suggested the ...
Page 10
... true there are but meagre materials for anything which might be called a story . have never seen a cougar - nor been bitten by a rattlesnake . The reader who has patience to go with me to the close of my desultory sketches , must expect ...
... true there are but meagre materials for anything which might be called a story . have never seen a cougar - nor been bitten by a rattlesnake . The reader who has patience to go with me to the close of my desultory sketches , must expect ...
Page 16
... true and genuine and generous politeness I record for the benefit of all bearskin caps , leath- ern jerkins and cowhide boots , which ladies from the eastward world may hereafter encounter in Michigan . Our journey was marked by no ...
... true and genuine and generous politeness I record for the benefit of all bearskin caps , leath- ern jerkins and cowhide boots , which ladies from the eastward world may hereafter encounter in Michigan . Our journey was marked by no ...
Page 60
... true at some time or other ; yet leaving the buyer without excuse if he chose to be taken in . An auctioneer was now to be procured , ( for lots usually went rather heavily at private sale , ) and this auctioneer must not be such a one ...
... true at some time or other ; yet leaving the buyer without excuse if he chose to be taken in . An auctioneer was now to be procured , ( for lots usually went rather heavily at private sale , ) and this auctioneer must not be such a one ...
Page 73
... true bijouterie of the woods and wilds . How weary would my last three years have been , without the cares and troubles they have brought me ! Our breakfast , of undistinguishable green tea , milk - 7 * WHO'LL FOLLOW ? 73 place, where ...
... true bijouterie of the woods and wilds . How weary would my last three years have been , without the cares and troubles they have brought me ! Our breakfast , of undistinguishable green tea , milk - 7 * WHO'LL FOLLOW ? 73 place, where ...
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