 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild-pigeons. He woidd never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest...a foremost man at all country frolics for husking corn, or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands,... | |
 | 1872 - 660 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,...up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild-pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil ; and was a foremost... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder e nervous agitation even refuse to assist a neighbour in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolies for hulking Indian... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 páginas
...though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,...shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never even refuse to assist a neighbour in the roughest toil ; indeed, Rip was ready to attend to everybody's... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 páginas
...he should not be en- es couraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps,...in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all 70 country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences : the women of the village, too,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 páginas
...couraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, {nidging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale,...in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all TO country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences : the women of the village, too,... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry... 
