 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...girths, and he observed to the boy, " I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." " So it has," answered the latter, " but you have not got half way... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...that it had. But presently the traveller's horse sank ki lip to the girths, and he observed to the boy, " I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 318 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...girths, and he observed to the boy, " I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." " So it has," answered the latter, " but you have not got half way... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1908 - 320 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, " 1 thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." " So it has," answered ^the latter, " but you... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1978 - 148 strani
...'Life Without Principle' ' There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 strani
...not play at kittlybenders. There is a solid bottom every where. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way... | |
 | Edmund Leites - 2002 - 284 strani
...solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a solid bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently, the traveller's horse sank up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, 'I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.'... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 strani
...forgotten this is part of our education which is sadly neglected. We read that the traveler asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveler's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 strani
...business, as the other famous "hard bottom" story from Wo/den reminds US: We read that a traveler asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The...observed to the boy, "I thought you said this bog has a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way to it yet." Still,... | |
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We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, " I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom. 
