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... couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat , and feel all cramped up . Well , then , the old thing commenced again . The widow rung a bell for supper , and you had to come to time . When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating ...
... couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat , and feel all cramped up . Well , then , the old thing commenced again . The widow rung a bell for supper , and you had to come to time . When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating ...
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... couldn't make out how he was agoing to be any better off then than what he was before , seeing I was so ignorant and so kind of low - down and ornery . Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year , and that was com- fortable for me ; I ...
... couldn't make out how he was agoing to be any better off then than what he was before , seeing I was so ignorant and so kind of low - down and ornery . Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year , and that was com- fortable for me ; I ...
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... couldn't see them , but I could tell where they was , by the whisky they'd been having . I was glad I didn't drink whisky ; but it wouldn't made much difference , anyway , because most of the time they couldn't a treed me because I didn ...
... couldn't see them , but I could tell where they was , by the whisky they'd been having . I was glad I didn't drink whisky ; but it wouldn't made much difference , anyway , because most of the time they couldn't a treed me because I didn ...
Contents
Pioneers of the Modern | 1855 |
Song of Myself | 1861 |
Children of Adam | 1908 |
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