Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young (1887)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York : John D. Williams · leaf 169
ngues, andrattling their tails, glided away into a neigh-bouring thicket. Thus suddenly I took leaveof them for ever. It might seem that a 156 WIT BOUGHT. couple of serpents were not the objects uponwhich the heart is likely to fix its affection—yet I felt a sort of desolation when they weregone,… … TRADING. 157 CHAPTER XIV. THE INDIAN CHIEF MY RETURN TO SALEM CONCLUSION. IN a short time, however, I recovered myspirits, and entered the town of Natchez. Ihere took passage on board a small sloop.,and in five weeks reached St. Louis—avoyage which is now made, in steamboats, infour or five clays.…
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