The adventures of Hopper docx

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern states, ... until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea wa...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 11 CLOSE upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news. No need of the as yet undreamed -of telegraph; the ... on the inquest, under oath; and the boys, seeing that the lightnings were still withheld, were confirmed in their belief that Joe had sold himself to the devil. He wa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely. She found that the medicine did really diminish, but it did not occur to her that the boy was mending the health of a crack in the sitting-room floor ... pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer. Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, bangi...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 14:16

... started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark. I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town. ... around in the grass at the upper end of the ridge, and got out of tobacco. I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there. I killed him, a...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... far enough to make the head of the island, and then started across. I took off the sun-bonnet, for I didn't want no blinders on then. When I was about the middle I heard the clock begin ... she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead. Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the othe...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to. I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was ... heading away to the right of it. And the next time I was heading away to the left of it and not gaining on it much either, for I was flying around, this way and that and t&...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... cold ham, and then threw themselves down in the shade to talk. But the talk soon began to drag, and then died. The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, ... tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar. They felt no longing for the little village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 20:20

... he ain't got none. Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I ... to death. On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent, and about ready to tumble in, The people had moved out of them...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20

... And when it was all done me and the hare-lip had supper in the kitchen off of the leavings, whilst the others was helping the niggers clean up the things. The hare-lip she got to pumping me ... the king and the duke's chairs and waited on them, and the niggers waited on the rest. Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, an...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20