The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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Don't you ? ' said the other — and vanished . That embryonic ghost - story has been ( falsely , I think ) attributed to ' A. J. Alan ' , the famous B.B.C. teller of stories from January , 1924 , until shortly before his death in ...
Don't you ? ' said the other — and vanished . That embryonic ghost - story has been ( falsely , I think ) attributed to ' A. J. Alan ' , the famous B.B.C. teller of stories from January , 1924 , until shortly before his death in ...
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He was a rough patch in the road - er - don't misjudge me . I'd spent an absolutely blameless evening . No — something had evidently gone wrong with the watermain during the afternoon . They'd come and mended the pipe , but hadn't had ...
He was a rough patch in the road - er - don't misjudge me . I'd spent an absolutely blameless evening . No — something had evidently gone wrong with the watermain during the afternoon . They'd come and mended the pipe , but hadn't had ...
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And don't pull your punches . ' The dog played this spectacular piece with spectacular virtuosity . ' Anything else you'd like ? ' ' Yes , Liszt's “ Hungarian Rhapsody ” —that very fast , difficult one all the most florid pianists love ...
And don't pull your punches . ' The dog played this spectacular piece with spectacular virtuosity . ' Anything else you'd like ? ' ' Yes , Liszt's “ Hungarian Rhapsody ” —that very fast , difficult one all the most florid pianists love ...
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| Title | The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Philosophical Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802212794, 9780802212795 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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