Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry (1844)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York, Wiley & Putnam · leaf 59
~-*^ pent slowly yielded, ana the sapling jerkedhim into the air. There he hung, danglingand writhing, and thrusting out his tongue^but all to no purpose. Taking a fair aimwith the gun, Bill now fired, and cut thepoor reptile in twain … THE CHUHCII AT SALEM. WIT BOUGHT. 47 Such, or similar, no doubt, have oeen theadventures of many a Yankee youth before.I record them here, partly for the pleasureof reviewing the past, and partly to pointthe moral of this chapter—that youth is aportion of life to which, in after years, weusually…
Children's stories, American
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