 ... consisting of seven families, with forty-six wagons, each drawn by thirteen oxen; each family consists of a man in butternutcolored clothing driving the oxen; a wife in butternut-colored clothing riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and...  Phœnixiana; Or, Sketches and Burlesques - Page 47by George Horatio Derby - 1870 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Horatio Derby - American wit and humor - 1856 - 308 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment ; all are barefooted, dusty,...accents, the grand Pike County Chorus. " Oh we'll soon he thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits hold— Oh,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment; all are barefooted, dusty,...for some minutes, winding up with a puff from the ophicleide, played by an intoxicated Teuton with an atrocious breath—it is impossible to misunderstand... | |
 | George Horatio Derby - California - 1903 - 364 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment ; all are barefooted, dusty,...for some minutes, winding up with a puff from the orpheclidc played by an intoxicated Teuton with an atrocious breath — it is impossible to misunderstand... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - American literature - 1907 - 202 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment; all are barefooted, dusty,...accents, the grand Pike County Chorus : "Oh we'll soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits bold — Oh,... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - American wit and humor - 1909 - 204 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment; all are barefooted, dusty,...accents, the grand Pike County Chorus : "Oh we'll soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits bold — Oh,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - Literary Criticism - 1915 - 458 pages
...pleasing alliteration; his countenance presents a determined, combined with a sanctimonious expression." "Now rises o'er the plains in mellifluous accents, the grand Pike County Chorus: Oh, we '11 soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1917 - 474 pages
...pleasing alliteration ; his countenance presents a determined, combined with a sanctimonious expression." "Now rises o'er the plains in mellifluous accents, the grand Pike County Chorus : Oh, we'll soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits bold — Oh,... | |
 | John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment; all are barefooted, dusty,...the grand Pike County Chorus : ' ' Oh we'll soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits holdOn, we come,... | |
 | John Phoenix - Humor - 2008 - 698 pages
...riding in the wagon, holding a butternut baby, and seventeen butternut children running promiscuously about the establishment; all are barefooted, dusty,...the grand Pike County Chorus : ' ' Oh we'll soon be thar In the land of gold, Through the forest old, O'er the mounting cold, With spirits holdOn, we come,... | |
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