Charlie Bell: The Waif of Elm Island

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Lee and Shepard, 1896 - 325 ページ

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233 ページ - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
10 ページ - But the other refusing, he began beating, kicking, and bruising the passive Pomeroy, still trying to induce him to defend himself; but in vain. At last, sated witb abuse in words and blows, and Pomeroy lying apparently dead, he took a bayonet and pricking him a little to see if life remained, left him with the assurance that this was but the beginning of his revenge — this was only the payment for his butter, and that wherever and whenever he found him he should in the same manner take pay for...
14 ページ - ... with such violence that the blood gushed from his mouth and nostrils, and he was borne from the field in a dying state.
10 ページ - Jameson, whom he found mowing jui the field, prisoner on board his vessel, and, on account of his unyielding disposition, put him in irons. His men then drove up Jameson's cattle and killed a good yoke of oxen for beef and three fat hogs, which, without stopping to dress them, they hurried on board the vessel, together with three firkins of butter and two guns which they forcibly took from his log-house. Jameson, naturally of a violent temper, became so enraged at this conduct of an old schoolmate...
83 ページ - ... passes. When the auger is brought out of the hole for emptying, it is usually leaned up against the tripod, since this is faster and easier than trying to lay it down. Coupling and uncoupling extensions -- The extensions...
113 ページ - It would be sad to see this magazine fold, and I think we ought to do all we can to keep it going.
319 ページ - I shan't do any such thing ; you must go yourselves, like men ; it's nothing to be ashamed of, but something to be proud of; anybody would think you'd been stealing.

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