 Thar in the drift back to the wall he held the timbers ready to fall ; then in the darkness I heard him call — " Run for your life, Jake! Run for your wife's sake! Don't wait for me.  A Library of American Literature... - Page xby Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...Virginia,' who held up the timbers in the falling tunnel, and cried in the darkness to his chum : " Run for your life, Jake ! Run for your wife's sake ! Don't wait for me /" The narrator is scandalised that the stranger to whom he speaks has not heard of Tom Flynn, and... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...it's a sin To think of Tom Flynn, — Tom with his cheer, Tom without fear, — Stranger, look 'yar ! Thar in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the timbers...Tom Flynn, — Flynn of Virginia. That's all about Here in the damp,— Out of the sun, — That 'ar derned lamp Makes my eyes ran. Well, there, — I'm... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1872 - 410 pages
...Why, it's a sin To think of Tom Flynn,Tom with his cheer, Tom without fear, — Stranger, look 'yar I Thar in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the timbers Keady to fall; Then in the darkness I heard him call: " Run for your life, Jake ! IN THE TUNNEL. Run... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 808 pages
...Railway (the place is shown to travellers), who sacrificed his life for his married comrade, — There, in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the timbers...And that was all Heard in the din — Heard of Tom Fly nil, Flynn of Virginia. Or the engineer, again, on the Mississippi, who, when the steamer canght... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...Railway (the place is shown to travellers), who sacrificed his life for his married comrade, — There, in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the timbers Ready to fall. Then in the darkness I hoard him call, — " Hun for your life, Jake ! Hun for your wife's sake! Don't wait for me." And that... | |
 | Universalism - 1871 - 1032 pages
...Harry and Ben, — No-account men ; Then to take Aim/" or the story of Flynn, in the tunnel, who — "held the timbers Ready to fall ; Then in the darkness I heard him call, 1 Run for your life, Jake ! Run for your wife's sake, Don't wait forme.' And that wu all Heard In the... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 pages
...it's a sin To think of Tom Flynn, — Tom with his cheer, Tom without fear, — Stranger, look 'yar! Thar in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the timbers..."Run for your life, Jake! Run for your wife's sake ! And that was all Heard in the din, Heard of Tom Flynn,— Flynn of Virginia. That 's all about Flynn... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...Pacific Railway (the place is shown to travellers) who sacrificed his life for his married comrade : — "Thar, in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the...the din — Heard of Tom Flynn, Flynn of Virginia." Or the engineer, again, on the Mississippi, who, when the steamer caught fire, held, as he had sworn... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...Pacific Railway (the place is shown to travellers) who sacrificed his life for his married comrade : — "Thar, in the drift, Back to the wall, He held the...Jake ! Run for your wife's sake ! Don't wait for me.' Or the engineer, again, on the Mississippi, who, when the steamer caught fire, held, as he had sworn... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...it's a sin To think of Tom Flynn,— Tom with his cheer, Tom without fear, — Stranger, look 'yar! Thar in the drift Back to the wall He held the timbers...— " Run for your life, Jake ! Run for your wife's sakel Don't wait for me." And that was all Heard in the din, Heard of Tom Flynn,— Flynn of Virginia.... | |
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