American Wit and Humor, المجلد 1Review of Reviews Company, 1907 |
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الصفحة xv
... Told Tales " 153 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe .- " Twice - Told Tales " N. P. WILLIS ( 1806-1867 ) . 165 Miss Albina McLush Love in a Cottage Tom Fane and I .- " Prose Writings " EDMUND QUINCY ( 1808-1877 ) . Who Paid for the Prima ...
... Told Tales " 153 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe .- " Twice - Told Tales " N. P. WILLIS ( 1806-1867 ) . 165 Miss Albina McLush Love in a Cottage Tom Fane and I .- " Prose Writings " EDMUND QUINCY ( 1808-1877 ) . Who Paid for the Prima ...
الصفحة xix
... best . The pungent and racy anecdote , smelling of the soil , that is told to illustrate a moral , or to give point to an argument , the happy allusion to some memory or tradition , the dramatic manner xix Joel Chandler Harris.
... best . The pungent and racy anecdote , smelling of the soil , that is told to illustrate a moral , or to give point to an argument , the happy allusion to some memory or tradition , the dramatic manner xix Joel Chandler Harris.
الصفحة xx
... told- especially if it have the added perfection of timeliness - will change the whole prospects of a political struggle , even on the most extensive field . The forms of humor that are preserved in the oral literature of the people are ...
... told- especially if it have the added perfection of timeliness - will change the whole prospects of a political struggle , even on the most extensive field . The forms of humor that are preserved in the oral literature of the people are ...
الصفحة 15
... told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth ; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money , and laughed at me so much for my folly , that I cried with vexation ; and the reflection ...
... told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth ; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money , and laughed at me so much for my folly , that I cried with vexation ; and the reflection ...
الصفحة 30
... told him I had been busy , and having little inclination , had done nothing . He then showed me his piece for my opinion , and I much approved it , as it appeared to me to have great merit . " Now , " says he , " Osborne never will ...
... told him I had been busy , and having little inclination , had done nothing . He then showed me his piece for my opinion , and I much approved it , as it appeared to me to have great merit . " Now , " says he , " Osborne never will ...
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American Amos Shuttle ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE Baltus Van Tassel beauty Blossom bob'd Brom Bones Bullet called Caran d'Ache caricature cartoons chairs Congress Hall cousin Pete Crismus Deacon dear dollars door Doubletrouble Dutch eyes Fliegende Blätter Franklin friends Garcia gentleman Gillray give Gout gwine hand hanging happy head hear heard heart Heidegger Higginbotham horse hour Hubblebubble Huldy humor Ichabod Ichabod Crane jist keep Kimballton kind knew lady laugh live look Malibran Medbourne mind Miss morning never Nicholas night Parker's Falls pedler person Phrenology pig-pen political Poor Richard says pretty pseudosciences Punch road round Sam Patch says Huldy Schulemberg seemed sleep Sleepy Hollow soul spirit stood story talk tell thing thou thought tion told trees turned walk whistle whole woman wonder Wouter Van Twiller wuzzled young youth
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الصفحة 7 - If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
الصفحة 239 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
الصفحة 240 - Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace, bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through.
الصفحة 242 - At half-past nine by the meet'n-house clock, — Just the hour of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst.
الصفحة 100 - ... by a bit of broken looking-glass that hung up in the schoolhouse. That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mounted, issued forth, like a knight-errant in quest of adventures. But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed....
الصفحة 241 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
الصفحة 240 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
الصفحة 5 - Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help, Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
الصفحة 244 - THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN. IT was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide ; The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim, Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him. It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade : He saw her wave her handkerchief, as much as if to say, "I'm wide awake, young oysterman, and all the folks away.
الصفحة 111 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.