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... Fish Day " —Fish Pot - Fish Dinner - The Colt and Dogs- Aunt Peggy - Little Lizzie - Hail Columbia— " You scrouges me " - " Mortal Patriots " - " You lies " -Fairfax Pompey out- witted - The Turkey Driver . IT was " late peach time " in ...
... Fish Day " —Fish Pot - Fish Dinner - The Colt and Dogs- Aunt Peggy - Little Lizzie - Hail Columbia— " You scrouges me " - " Mortal Patriots " - " You lies " -Fairfax Pompey out- witted - The Turkey Driver . IT was " late peach time " in ...
Page 66
... fish day in the hundred , " for the inhabitants at this season of the year , had a fish - pot constructed in an adjacent stream , from which each family of the hundred was supplied on alternate days . A fish pot is constructed by ...
... fish day in the hundred , " for the inhabitants at this season of the year , had a fish - pot constructed in an adjacent stream , from which each family of the hundred was supplied on alternate days . A fish pot is constructed by ...
Page 67
... fish from his own plate . The madam soon resumed her shower of apologies for the fish dinner , and the Presi- dent , resolved on silencing the battery , suddenly laid down his knife and fork , and looking her gravely in the face , said ...
... fish from his own plate . The madam soon resumed her shower of apologies for the fish dinner , and the Presi- dent , resolved on silencing the battery , suddenly laid down his knife and fork , and looking her gravely in the face , said ...
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... fish , with the compliments of Benjamin Grymes , who resided some fifty miles down the river , and who was a gallant officer of the Life - Guard in the war of the Revolution . " Mr. Custis became the owner of the flag of the Life ...
... fish , with the compliments of Benjamin Grymes , who resided some fifty miles down the river , and who was a gallant officer of the Life - Guard in the war of the Revolution . " Mr. Custis became the owner of the flag of the Life ...
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... fish taken on his own hook . His canoe has long since rotted on the shore ; his paddle hangs idle in his cabin ; his occupation's gone , and Father Jack , the old fisherman of Mount Vernon , sleeps the sleep that knows no waking . " " I ...
... fish taken on his own hook . His canoe has long since rotted on the shore ; his paddle hangs idle in his cabin ; his occupation's gone , and Father Jack , the old fisherman of Mount Vernon , sleeps the sleep that knows no waking . " " I ...
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Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2016 |
Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1864) William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2009 |
Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2015 |
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American Anacreon in Heaven appeared army arter Aunt Phillis Bacchanalian song Bacchus Bacchus's vine Baltimore band of brothers battle Boston Boston song bout brave British chief chitter litter choir cow-boy Cully Custis dinner Dogue Run Dolly enemy eyes Father fire fish flag forever Fort McHenry freedom French Directory glorious glory gobblers gone gwine Hail Columbia hand heart Hopkinson hurrah I'se ington kegs king lady land Liberty live mansion Marse mighty Minerva Miss Nelly Mount Vernon myrtle of Venus nation neber night normous o'er patriotic peach party Philadelphia Pompey President President's March Ralph Tomlinson regiment replied round Scomberry shore sing soon Star-Spangled Banner stars Stricker stripes sumpin sung tarkeys tree turkey driver United Venus with Bacchus's Wash Washington rules William Colfax Yankee doodle dandy you's young
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Page 103 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave...
Page 79 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 103 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 103 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 55 - Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies. Firm, united, let us be, Rallying round our Liberty; As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find.
Page 56 - Behold the chief who now commands, Once more to serve his country, stands — The rock on which the storm will beat, The rock on which the storm will beat; But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes are fixed on Heaven and you.
Page 103 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just ; And this be our motto :
Page 24 - The rebels — more's the pity, "Without a boat are all afloat, "And rang'd before the city. "The motley crew, in vessels new, " With Satan for their guide, sir. "Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, "Come driving down the tide, sir. "Therefore prepare for bloody war, "These kegs must all be routed, "Or surely we despised shall be, "And British courage doubted.
Page 71 - When the fire is beginning to kindle, and your heart growing warm, propound these questions to it. Who is this invader? Have I a competent knowledge of him? Is he a man of good character; a man of sense?
Page 109 - I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by...