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I now , with difficulty and industry , collected a sufficiency of dry wood to keep up a light during the night , and to roast some trout which I had caught when descending the river ; their heads I stewed in the juice of Oranges , which ...
I now , with difficulty and industry , collected a sufficiency of dry wood to keep up a light during the night , and to roast some trout which I had caught when descending the river ; their heads I stewed in the juice of Oranges , which ...
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As it was , he received a contusion in his head , of which he complained much ; and having left the race - ground , and coming to a small cottage , he stopped a little , to alight and dress the wound . An old woman who was there ...
As it was , he received a contusion in his head , of which he complained much ; and having left the race - ground , and coming to a small cottage , he stopped a little , to alight and dress the wound . An old woman who was there ...
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For he carried a head where his tail should be , And the two , of course , could never agree , But wriggled about with main and might , Now to the left and now to the right ; Pulling and twisting this way and that , Neither ...
For he carried a head where his tail should be , And the two , of course , could never agree , But wriggled about with main and might , Now to the left and now to the right ; Pulling and twisting this way and that , Neither ...
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Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and plenty | 34 |
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