Saint Abe and His Seven Wives
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ISBN13: 9780217984980
Paperback|9780217984980
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. SAINT AND DISCIPLE. Joe Wilson paused, and gazed straight down, With gritting teeth and bitter frown, And not till I entreated him Did he continue, ?fierce and grim, With knitted brow and teeth clench'd tight. Along this way one summer night, Jest as I meant to take the prize, Passed an Apostle?dern his eyes On his old pony, gravel-eyed, His legs a-dangling down each side, With twinkling eyes and wheedling smile, Grinning beneath his broad-brimm'd tile, SAINT AND DISCIPLE. ij With heer all scent and shaven face. He came a-trotting to the place. My luck was bad, I wasn't near, But busy many a mile from yer; And what I tell was told to me By them as were at hand to see. 'Twarn't every day, I reckon, they Saw an Apostle pass their way And Cissy, being kind o' soft, And empty in the upper loft, Was full of downright joy and pride To hev thet saint at her fireside? One of the seventy they call The holiest holy?dern 'em all O he was 'cute and no mistake, Deep as Salt Lake, and wide awake Theer at the ranche three days he stayed, And well he knew his lying trade. 'Twarn't long afore he heard full free About her larks and thet with me, And how 'twas quite the fam'ly plan To hev me for her second man, At fust thet old Apostle said Little, but only shook his head; But you may bet he'd no intent To let things go as things had went. Three nights he stayed, and every night He squeezed her hand a bit more tight; And every night he didn't miss To give a loving kiss to Ciss; And tho' his fust was on her brow, He ended with her mouth, somehow. O, but he was a knowing one, The Apostle Hiram Higginson Grey as a badger's was his heer, His age was over six...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217984980 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217984983 |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 84 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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