 | Ireland - 1852 - 486 pages
...Why, Sir, I've heered different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reconed the captain cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched...foot. But if I may be allowed to spend my 'pinion, I sould say my old man's account is the Tightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd... | |
 | William Trotter Porter - 1846 - 442 pages
...a hardy man will get used to almost" " No, no : what did he eat ? what did he feed on ?" " O—O— I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, sir, I've heerd...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the lightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days abouts, they begun... | |
 | William Trotter Porter - American wit and humor - 1858 - 480 pages
...Venus, stop : tell us, in the name of wonder, how did the captain contrive to support life all this time ?" " Why, sir, to be sure, it was a hard kind...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the lightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days abouts, they begun... | |
 | 1859 - 450 pages
...Why, sir, I've heerd different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reckoned the capting cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched...in a white bear's foot. But if I may be allowed to aspress my 'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the rightest, and that's— what's as follows.... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - American wit and humor - 1866 - 374 pages
...man will get used to almost—" " No, no : what did he eat ? what did he feed on ? " « O—O—I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, Sir, I've heerd...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the Tightest, and that's—what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days abouts, they begun... | |
 | American humour - 1866 - 612 pages
...but a hardy man will get used to almost — " " No, no : what did he eat ? what did he feed on ? " he lay stretched out asleep one day, with his jack-knife,...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the lightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days abouts, they begun... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 pages
...a hardy man will get used to almost " "No, no: what did he eat? what did he feed on?" " 0 — 0 — I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, sir, I've heerd...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the Tightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days abouts, they begun... | |
 | Henry B. Wonham - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 218 pages
...Why, sir, I've heard different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reckoned the Captain cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched...with his jack-knife, and sucked that for fodder." Venus prefers a different version of the story, in which an unsuspecting seal climbs onto the ice floe... | |
 | William Trotter Porter - United States - 1854 - 220 pages
...sir, to be sure, it was a hard kind o' life to support, but a hardy man will get used to almost" u No, no : what did he eat ? what did he feed on ?"...'pinion, I should say my old man's account is the A BEAR STORV. Tightest, and that's — what's as follows. You see after they'd been out three days... | |
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I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, sir, I've heerd different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reckoned .the captin cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched out asleep, one day, with his jack-knife, and sucked that for... 