In the Wilderness
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781459086104
Paperback|9781459086104
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...waal, and a little spice too. We 've got to have the spice, you know." He admired, for different reasons, a lecture by Greeley that he once heard, into which so much knowledge of various kinds was crowded, that he said he " made a reg'lar. gobble of it." He was not without discrimination, which he exercised upon the local preaching when nothing better offered. Of one sermon he said, "The man began way back at the ereation, and just preached right along down; and he did n't say nothing, after all. It just seemed to me as if he was tryin' to git up a kind of a fix-up." Old Phelps used words sometimes like algebraic signs, and had a habit of making one do duty for a season together for all occasions. "Speckerlation" and "callerlation" and "fix up" are specimens of words that were prolific in expression. An unusual expression, or an unusual article, would be characterized as a " kind of a scientific literary git-up." "What is the programme for to-morrow?" I once asked him. "Waal, I callerlate, if they rig up the callerlation they callerlate on, we '11 go to the Boreas." Starting out for a day's tramp in the woods, he would ask whether we wanted to take a "reg'lar walk, or a random scoot,"--the latter being a plunge into the pathless forest. When he was on such an expedition, and became entangled in dense brush, and maybe a network of "slash" and swamp, he was like an old wizard, as he looked here and there, seeking a way, peering into the tangle, or withdrawing from a thicket, and muttering to himself, " There ain't no speckerlation there." And when the way became altogether inscrutable, "Waal, this is a reg'lar random scoot of a rigmarole." As some one remarked, " The dictionary in his hands is like clay in the hands of the potter." A petrifaction...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459086104 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459086104 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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