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Page 2041
... hear me ? Wut you say ? Ain't nu'h'n but rocks ? ' Peahs ter me you's owdashus pertickler . S'posin ' dey's uv a new kine . I'll des take a look at dem rocks . Hi yi ! does you think dat I's bline ? I calls dat a plain watermillion ...
... hear me ? Wut you say ? Ain't nu'h'n but rocks ? ' Peahs ter me you's owdashus pertickler . S'posin ' dey's uv a new kine . I'll des take a look at dem rocks . Hi yi ! does you think dat I's bline ? I calls dat a plain watermillion ...
Page 2105
... hear all the news . " " There's none , " cries he ; " and if there were , I'm grown so deaf I could not hear . " " Nay , then , " the spectre stern rejoined , " These are unwarrantable yearnings ; If you are lame , and deaf , and blind ...
... hear all the news . " " There's none , " cries he ; " and if there were , I'm grown so deaf I could not hear . " " Nay , then , " the spectre stern rejoined , " These are unwarrantable yearnings ; If you are lame , and deaf , and blind ...
Page 2118
... hear not the pother o'er thy head , When the great Persian conqueror , Cambyses , Marched armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread , — O'erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis ; And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder , When the ...
... hear not the pother o'er thy head , When the great Persian conqueror , Cambyses , Marched armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread , — O'erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis ; And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder , When the ...
Page 2139
... hear . The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off , And tumbled in a fit . Ten days and nights , with sleepless eye , I watched that wretched man , And since , I never ...
... hear . The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off , And tumbled in a fit . Ten days and nights , with sleepless eye , I watched that wretched man , And since , I never ...
Page 2162
... Hear the sharp cry of childhood , the deep groans that swell From the poor dying creature who writhes on the floor , Hear the curses that sound like the echoes of Hell , As you sicken and shudder and fly from the door ; Then home to ...
... Hear the sharp cry of childhood , the deep groans that swell From the poor dying creature who writhes on the floor , Hear the curses that sound like the echoes of Hell , As you sicken and shudder and fly from the door ; Then home to ...
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