Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 297William Blackwood, 1965 - England |
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Page 131
... hard and - when they can - play hard , and are generally a happy people . My husband was asked to kill a pig . Actually he should have done this before entering the house , but as it was dark the ceremony took place just inside the ...
... hard and - when they can - play hard , and are generally a happy people . My husband was asked to kill a pig . Actually he should have done this before entering the house , but as it was dark the ceremony took place just inside the ...
Page 393
... hard as most other people in this country ; but it goes smoothly , and we have everything we want . It is hard to feel poverty when you have three or four big sides of bacon and a few hams slung up to the kitchen rafters . We would feel ...
... hard as most other people in this country ; but it goes smoothly , and we have everything we want . It is hard to feel poverty when you have three or four big sides of bacon and a few hams slung up to the kitchen rafters . We would feel ...
Page 424
... hard ship's bread ) or Akyab spuds and long - tailed sugar - that is to say , rice and molasses . They could then say they were used to sea food and hard weather . When mustering the hands , the more drunken ones were uncere- moniously ...
... hard ship's bread ) or Akyab spuds and long - tailed sugar - that is to say , rice and molasses . They could then say they were used to sea food and hard weather . When mustering the hands , the more drunken ones were uncere- moniously ...
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