a sinking between the tip of the snout and the top of the head; indeed, they are something like a large salmon. We used to eat them, and th cabbage soup diet and water nd the plain. I can boast (and very few can say as much) I never yet saw any grain in the field, never yet saw corn growing or ripe atop of .
e that the mother recognized the son whom she had deemed lost. Her strong emotions overcame her: she askt: "Whence comest thou?... stand up .
t perhaps after all the ride would be the easiest way of passing the afternoon; and went. "Well you do understand the art of command," said .
among his parishioners, he found himself inevitably drawn towards her mother's dwelling. In her presence, the habitual austerity of his man .
e of Freedom, John Quincy Adams. He corresponded every post with his constituents, keeping them fully apprised of all that transpired at Co .
the brig, to commence the more serious work of examining the cargo; while the rest, greatly to their discontent, with about two-thirds of t .
re ready to call him their master." Alfonso cast a look of enthusiasm upon his friend; and Antonio could not refrain from acknowledging to .
op to bottom, there stood in the middle a great whipping-post. "The manner of whipping there is, to strip the party to the skin, from the w .
nd his friends to his camp at Hackensack. British troops under Lord Cornwallis had landed above Fort Lee at the base of the Palisades, and cabbage soup diet and water He paraded with the sick before the regimental doctor as seldom as possible. He was favored by the sergeants and helped in every way by the .
ural science. I need not further describe the amount of my knowledge. I could not have attained half I have mentioned had I not read on ste .
present the following original bill of lading, constituting an incident in relation to the famous expedition to Quebec, and evincing at lea .
nged to one or other of them. Besides a reading and writing class, he had an arithmetic and geography class, and a music and a drawing clas .
e last fond effort of affection by him who had thus been unable to provide any means of escape for himself. He, however, must have struggle .
e of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, "should be liable to fi .
ay of her betrothal there; blaming herself, and blaming her mother more. Yet at any rate that day she had set seal to her own fate; would s .
and down stairs he and his mother were waiting for her; she was almost in the family already. Eleanor put several feelings in bonds, along .
with this secret passage, which had been concealed with so much care, and, as it appeared, for so long a time. When he had gained a little cabbage soup diet and water t you shut up, you Wallbridge?" came Orderly Sergeant Gravely's sharp tones from the next tent. "What's wrong with you, Harry, boy?" asked .
lights from the flaming mass fell on a large body of Spaniards, who had rallied, and were advancing rapidly towards us. "It matters not," s .
nking they had outflanked us and the day was gone, so there was nothing more to do but make out to die hard, like the sons of Waterloo men. .
of night. "Nex' mawny early my fader he's groaned and he's groaned: 'Ah--ugh--I'm sick, sick, me. I'll be goin' for die dis time, for sure .
er Assembly's Shorter Catechism, contained, at that time, in a small but miscellaneous volume called the Primer. He was a great lover of th .
one to let the Dutchmen in other places guess what we were about to do, he determined to take the ship through the passage between the big .
than the subject of it himself ever 鈥榥abbed鈥� on the king鈥檚 highway. It is both interesting and instructive to observe how dire .
s and wretchedness. An old coat hung about him, much too large and long, that yet did not hide a great rent in his trowsers which shewed th .