| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...broken wheelbarrow to a Quaker, with, " Here I've broke your rotten wheelbarrow usin' on't I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it...involuntary loans ; I have a story to tell. One of my best neighbors is Mr. Philo Doubleday, a long, awkward, honest, hard-working Maine man, or Mainote I suppose... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...Quaker, with, "Here I've broke your rotten wheelbarrow usin' on't I wish you'd get it mended right oil, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon."...involuntary loans ; I have a story to tell. One of my best neighbors is Mr. Philo Doubleday, a long, awkward, honest, hard-working Maine man, or Mainote I suppose... | |
| Robert F. Sayre - Autobiographies - 1994 - 750 pages
...wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with, "Here I've broke your rotten wheel-barrow usin' on't. I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it...involuntary loans; I have a story to tell. One of my best neighbors is Mr. Philo Doubleday, a long, awkward, honest, hard-working Maine-man, or Mainote I suppose... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 798 pages
...Here, I've broke your rotten wheelbarrow usin' on't : I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'eause I want to borrow it again this afternoon ;" the Quaker...made to reply, " Friend, it shall be done :" and I wished I possessed more of his spirit. HOSl'ITALITY. Like many other virtues, hespitality is praetised... | |
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