 Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find...  Great Short Works of Mark Twain - Página 378por Mark Twain - 2009 - 400 páginasPré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
 | Albert Shaw - 1895 - 790 páginas
...his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for 200 yards arotmd. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dry twig ; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the ' Leather Stocking Series ' ought to have been called the ' Broken Twig Series. ' ' '... | |
 | Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1898 - 476 páginas
...somebody does n't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig." But it is the fun and not the unvarying justice of all that Mark Twain says that makes his attack readable.... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 358 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series. I am sorry there... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1899 - 408 páginas
...is in peril and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, to go and borrow one. In fact, the Leatherstocking series ought to have been called the Broken Twig... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1900 - 358 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series. I am sorry there... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 343 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series. I am sorry there... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1900 - 356 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if.he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 páginas
...somebody does n't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...may be a hundred handier things to step on, but that would n't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1906 - 358 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series. I am sorry there... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1909 - 352 páginas
...somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute...Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a drytwig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have... | |
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