Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West TennesseeJ. and J. Harper, 1833 - 209 من الصفحات Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, Of West Tennessee by Printers J. & J. Harper, first published in 1833, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... stranger met them , and finding out from David the cause of his distress , threatened the wagoner with an immediate whipping unless he would refund the money . This he was unable to · do , having previously spent it ; so that David ...
... stranger met them , and finding out from David the cause of his distress , threatened the wagoner with an immediate whipping unless he would refund the money . This he was unable to · do , having previously spent it ; so that David ...
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... stranger , engaged to be married before the evening is over . About eleven o'clock , who should step in but the apprentice boy , ripe for fun - having , after his master had retired to rest , taken out of the stable , according to ...
... stranger , engaged to be married before the evening is over . About eleven o'clock , who should step in but the apprentice boy , ripe for fun - having , after his master had retired to rest , taken out of the stable , according to ...
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... stranger ; the election came on in a few weeks ; and that he lived down in the cane , forty miles from any settlement . Believing the matter at rest , they parted . Colonel Crockett returned home and devoted his time chiefly to hunting ...
... stranger ; the election came on in a few weeks ; and that he lived down in the cane , forty miles from any settlement . Believing the matter at rest , they parted . Colonel Crockett returned home and devoted his time chiefly to hunting ...
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... stranger , went Colonel Crockett . He beat about among the crowd the greater part of the day entirely unknown . When it was deter- mined that B. should run , the colonel went up to a small crowd , and called for a quart of whiskey , for ...
... stranger , went Colonel Crockett . He beat about among the crowd the greater part of the day entirely unknown . When it was deter- mined that B. should run , the colonel went up to a small crowd , and called for a quart of whiskey , for ...
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... he moved during the time more than one hundred and fifty miles , and was , consequently , dependent upon strangers for his second election . This is a forci ble truth of the great power of his talent for 78 SKETCHES AND ECCENTRICITIES OF.
... he moved during the time more than one hundred and fifty miles , and was , consequently , dependent upon strangers for his second election . This is a forci ble truth of the great power of his talent for 78 SKETCHES AND ECCENTRICITIES OF.
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الصفحة 44 - Rather stand it like a man and be consoled, not by the trite adage that " there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught...
الصفحة 162 - I'M THAT same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust; can whip my weight in wild cats, — and if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill, he may throw in a panther, — hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson.
الصفحة 7 - A DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, AND ITS INHABITANTS. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.
الصفحة 2 - No person's education can be considered complete without a certain degree of attention to the most recent improvements and discoveries in every branch of science. In none have greater advances been made, in the present century, than in geography and the knowledge of the earth which we inhabit...
الصفحة 1 - The study of Natural History is at all times, and to almost every person, eminently pleasing and instructive : the object .in this admirable volume has been to render it doubly captivating by the plain and simple style in which it is treated, and by the numerous engravings with .which the text is illustrated. There is no branch of this delightful science more pleasing than that which exhibits the wonderful goodness and wisdom of the Creator, as they are displayed in the endless varieties of insect...