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... knot , a member of perhaps the wisest race of dogs in existence . " Well , Larry , what is it ? What scrape have you been getting into now , that you want to take the pledge again ? " 66 ' Faith , yer ' onner , it's the THE LODGE . 5.
... knot , a member of perhaps the wisest race of dogs in existence . " Well , Larry , what is it ? What scrape have you been getting into now , that you want to take the pledge again ? " 66 ' Faith , yer ' onner , it's the THE LODGE . 5.
Page 45
... perhaps affecting a confidence she did not feel , assuring me there was no danger , if we showed no fear . Showing it or not , I for one could not but feel afraid , and , had I been alone , should have fled incontinently . If I had ...
... perhaps affecting a confidence she did not feel , assuring me there was no danger , if we showed no fear . Showing it or not , I for one could not but feel afraid , and , had I been alone , should have fled incontinently . If I had ...
Page 51
... perhaps two hundred hooks to fish in your absence , you row to shore , eat your lunch , smoke your pipe , amuse yourself how you may for two or three hours , then return and haul in the line . If in luck the take may be consider- able ...
... perhaps two hundred hooks to fish in your absence , you row to shore , eat your lunch , smoke your pipe , amuse yourself how you may for two or three hours , then return and haul in the line . If in luck the take may be consider- able ...
Page 57
... Tim ! till I turn him into a stone . " The coadjutor , who perhaps in his heart doubted the Father's petrifying powers , here interfered , and forcibly ejected the rash recusant . With the morning cool SEA FISHING . 57.
... Tim ! till I turn him into a stone . " The coadjutor , who perhaps in his heart doubted the Father's petrifying powers , here interfered , and forcibly ejected the rash recusant . With the morning cool SEA FISHING . 57.
Page 58
... perhaps a month , when he does , relates a somewhat garbled , perhaps modified , account of the transaction , and finds himself taken up and corrected at every turn . " Arrah now , it's lies you're telling your priest ; it was yourself ...
... perhaps a month , when he does , relates a somewhat garbled , perhaps modified , account of the transaction , and finds himself taken up and corrected at every turn . " Arrah now , it's lies you're telling your priest ; it was yourself ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!