Adventures and mishaps

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20

... H. Get up and bring out all the wine you have." Annie and I peeped through the parlor window, and lo! it was the company of volunteers and a diabolical band composed of bones and broken-winded ... nearly gone, and we are down to two candles kept for an emergency. Annie brought a receipt from Natchez for making candles of rosin and wax, and with great forethought brought a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... to my neck; my head and face were cut and bleeding, and a soldier was trying to wipe the sand from my eyes and ears. I found I had not been shot, but the banking had caved in and buried me. Gen. ... I ran hard and fast, and didn't dare to turn and look round. The shells began to whiz pretty thickly just at this time, and I prayed and hoped that the old man would get s...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... the painty and gassy and dusty place that I love as much as fresh earth and newly cut hay, and the girls look so pretty and bold lying around on the sets, and the men so out of focus and with such ... custom. His stand against hazing was equally vehement, and he worked hand in hand with the faculty to eradicate it entirely from the college life. That his stand was purely for a...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 00:20

... Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove. Soon afterwards a cat met them, and said, ‘Where ... the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more. Then Chanticleer was very sorry, and cried bitterly; and all the beasts came and wept with him over poo...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 06:15

... they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and seizing them by the heads, stuck one into the landlord’s easy chair and the other into his handkerchief; and, having done this, they ... had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome supper, and spe...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 07:15

... hair! And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them and it be- longs to a farmer, you know, and he ... Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome—no, that’s all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I’ll try and say ‘How doth the little—‘ and she crosse...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20

... fortune in the rise of land. Every man who built a cabin and raised a crop of grain, however small, was entitled to four hundred acres of land, and a preemption right to one thousand more adjoining, ... home, and, indeed, wished bad enough to be there. But when I thought of the school-house, and of Kitchen, my master, and of the race with my father, and of the big hickory stick he...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 00:20

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:58

... Ltd. Ⅲ Windows, WinCE and Microsoft are registered trademarks and MS-DOS and DirectX .are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Ⅲ Solaris and Java are registered trademarks and ChorusOS is a trademark ... Corporation Ⅲ ARM and StrongARM are registered trademarks and ARM7 and ARM9 are trademarks of Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. Ⅲ AMD is a registered trademark of Advanced Micro De...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2012, 14:23