One Man in His Time: The Adventures of H. Watkins, Strolling Player, 1845-1863, from His JournalThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
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Page 124
... walk , and whose table menu was unspeakable . There was no milk for the morning coffee . He took advantage of an hour's wait at a wooding - up landing to walk a mile to a farmhouse and ask a stern old lady for enough to fill his bottle ...
... walk , and whose table menu was unspeakable . There was no milk for the morning coffee . He took advantage of an hour's wait at a wooding - up landing to walk a mile to a farmhouse and ask a stern old lady for enough to fill his bottle ...
Page 156
... walk down town where at Taylor's Saloon they stopped and " partook of some ice cream , " which was either Osmer's generous way of burying the hatchet or symbolic of the coolness existing between them . Quite different was his attachment ...
... walk down town where at Taylor's Saloon they stopped and " partook of some ice cream , " which was either Osmer's generous way of burying the hatchet or symbolic of the coolness existing between them . Quite different was his attachment ...
Page 176
... walk with Hetty . Called to see her parents . Like her father . He seemed a good hard working man , but his wife is too frivolous for the mother of half a dozen children . Then by ferry to Williamsburgh with his Hetty that he might say ...
... walk with Hetty . Called to see her parents . Like her father . He seemed a good hard working man , but his wife is too frivolous for the mother of half a dozen children . Then by ferry to Williamsburgh with his Hetty that he might say ...
Contents
BARNSTORMING IN THE FORTIES | 1 |
THE WARTIME THEATRE | 19 |
THREE SOUTHWESTERN PLAYHOUSES | 28 |
Copyright | |
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