 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 884 strani
...his wife and daughters, and the abject slave of his grandchildren. His house was as big as a bam ; and as his sons and daughters married, they brought...the times and manners forty years ago : At Culpepper Court House, or some Court House thereabout, Dick Hardy, then a goodhumored, gay young bachelor, and... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1908 - 250 strani
..."Feelst not, Sir Dick," says saucy Moll, "A Pious Melancholy?" THE LOAFER AND THE SQUIRE BY PORTE CRAYON The squire himself was the type of a class found only...judge was at the table, the lawyers, justices, and everybody else that felt disposed to dine. At Dick's right elbow sat a militia colonel, who was tricked... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 540 strani
...own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself. We cannot omit one told by a neighbor, as being characteristic...judge was at the table, the lawyers, justices, and everybody else that felt disposed to dine. At Dick's right elbow sat a militia colonel, who was tricked... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent, Charles Alphonso Smith, Lucian Lamar Knight, John Calvin Metcalf, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 522 strani
...own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself. We cannot omit one told by a neighbor, as being characteristic...judge was at the table, the lawyers, justices, and everybody else that felt disposed to dine. At Dick's right elbow sat a militia colonel, who was tricked... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1911 - 242 strani
..."Feelst not, Sir Dick," says saucy Moll, "A Pious Melancholy?" THE LOAFER AND THE SQUIRE BY PORTE CRAYON The squire himself was the type of a class found only...court-house thereabout, Dick Hardy, then a good-humored, gay youngbachelor, and the prime favorite of both sexes, was called upon to carve the pig at the court... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 892 strani
...to his own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself. \Ve can not omit one told by a neighbor, as being characteristic of the times and manners forty years ago : At Culpcpper Court House, or some Court House thereabout, Dick Hardy, then a goodhumored, gay young bachelor,... | |
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When Moll and I helped Wildair up, No longer trim and jolly — "Feelst not, Sir Dick," says saucy Moll, "A Pious Melancholy?" THE LOAFER AND THE SQUIRE BY PORTE CRAYON The squire himself was the type of a class found only among the rural population of... 