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The weather was pretty warm and clear , notwithstanding it had been a frost this night . I took a walk about the plantation and my wife with me and then read some English in Milton . The man returned who came from my brother Duke's and ...
The weather was pretty warm and clear , notwithstanding it had been a frost this night . I took a walk about the plantation and my wife with me and then read some English in Milton . The man returned who came from my brother Duke's and ...
Page 602
I asked the woman for my watch , wound it up , and under pretence of wishing to see how the weather might probably be on the morrow , took up my gun , and walked out of the cabin . I slipped a ball into each barrel , scraped the edges ...
I asked the woman for my watch , wound it up , and under pretence of wishing to see how the weather might probably be on the morrow , took up my gun , and walked out of the cabin . I slipped a ball into each barrel , scraped the edges ...
Page 616
I took two eggs from one which was sitting , and in their place put two of the Brown Thrush , or Thrasher ; and took my stand at a convenient distance to see how she would behave . In a minute or two the male made his approaches ...
I took two eggs from one which was sitting , and in their place put two of the Brown Thrush , or Thrasher ; and took my stand at a convenient distance to see how she would behave . In a minute or two the male made his approaches ...
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| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing The Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Author | George F. Horner |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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