Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts, Volume 5Lippincott, Grambo [& Company,], 1854 |
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... heard , that with a boat they went out of a lake in Canada into a river , which discharged itself north - west into the South Sea , into which they went , and returned north - east into Hudson's Bay ! ' Meanwhile , pending these ...
... heard , that with a boat they went out of a lake in Canada into a river , which discharged itself north - west into the South Sea , into which they went , and returned north - east into Hudson's Bay ! ' Meanwhile , pending these ...
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... he thought they had just returned from a hunting expedition . No sooner was this heard , than a grand ball was given to the North - west Company . Great preparations were made ; the men , 17 FUR - TRADE AND THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY .
... he thought they had just returned from a hunting expedition . No sooner was this heard , than a grand ball was given to the North - west Company . Great preparations were made ; the men , 17 FUR - TRADE AND THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY .
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... heard of but the ball . The evening came , and with it the guests ; and soon might be heard within the fort sounds of merriment and revelry as they danced in lively measures to a Scottish reel , played by some native fiddler upon a ...
... heard of but the ball . The evening came , and with it the guests ; and soon might be heard within the fort sounds of merriment and revelry as they danced in lively measures to a Scottish reel , played by some native fiddler upon a ...
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... heard talk of any prior to him . He was a day - labourer ; and I have heard my father say , that he worked for one farmer from the day of his marriage to that of his death - upwards of forty years . He died before I was born ; but I ...
... heard talk of any prior to him . He was a day - labourer ; and I have heard my father say , that he worked for one farmer from the day of his marriage to that of his death - upwards of forty years . He died before I was born ; but I ...
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... heard such a description as left him no rest till he had gone and seen that collection of horticultural marvels . 6 ' At eleven years of age , my employment was clipping of box- edgings and weeding beds of flowers in the garden of the ...
... heard such a description as left him no rest till he had gone and seen that collection of horticultural marvels . 6 ' At eleven years of age , my employment was clipping of box- edgings and weeding beds of flowers in the garden of the ...
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