 ... when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. For, in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare...  The Overland Monthly - Page 5381875Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...in less tine than I write it, every member did engine In a warfare with the remnants of a palxozoic age : And the way they heaved those fossils in their...of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in." From these lines the reader perceives that Truthful James can be perfectly true to himself without... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 522 pages
...the remnants of a palaeozoic age. And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin. And the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games, For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games, For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1872 - 410 pages
...in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games : For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 pages
...in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games : For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is... | |
 | Bret Harte - United States - 1873 - 164 pages
...less time than I write it, every member > did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palceozoic age; And the way they heave'd those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James ; And I 've told in simple language what... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games. For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 pages
...in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James ; And I 've told in simple language what... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 164 pages
...less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of -a palasozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their...skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James ; And I 've told in simple language what... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1875 - 584 pages
...less time than I speak it, every member did engage In a warfare, with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils, in their anger, was a sin, And the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these... | |
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