 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 170 sider
...should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would cany a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up...country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run errands, and to do such odd... | |
 | William Landon Felter - 1900 - 244 sider
...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, and up...country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 328 sider
...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, and up...in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all the country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences. The women of the village, too,... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1900 - 232 sider
...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, and up...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... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 sider
...would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor,...used to employ him to run their errands and to do 5 such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready... | |
 | Mary Fontaine Laidley - 1922 - 410 sider
...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, and up...country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands and to do such... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 398 sider
...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, and up...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... | |
 | Robert William Chambers - 1923 - 1250 sider
...nibble. He would carry a foi piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and sw; and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, an a foremost man at all country... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 sider
...hen-pecked be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up...a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Inhusband. Indeed, to the latter circum- lodian corn, or building stone-fences; the stance might be... | |
 | Mackenzie Bell - 1927 - 516 sider
...should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up...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... | |
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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. 
