Land of Sunshine, Volum 19

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F. A. Pattee & Company, 1903
Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
 

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Side 206 - ... flesh, by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids ; and, to divert himself, would, now and then, sing and dance with them, and his cats : So that by the...
Side 102 - Constitution declares one of the objects to be to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare...
Side 205 - ... himself in reading, singing psalms, and praying ; so that he said he was a better Christian while in this solitude than ever he was before, or than, he was afraid, he should ever be again. At first he never ate anything till hunger constrained him, partly for grief, and partly for want of bread and salt. Nor did he go to bed till he could watch no longer...
Side 205 - ... the woods and up the rocks and hills, as we perceived when we employed him to catch goats for us. We had a bull-dog, which we sent with several of our nimblest runners, to help him in catching goats ; but he distanced and tired both the dog and the men, catched the goats, and brought them to us on his back.
Side 103 - Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project...
Side 205 - When his powder failed, he took them by speed of feet ; for his way of living, continual exercise of walking and running, cleared him of all gross humours ; so that he ran with wonderful swiftness through the woods, and up the rocks and hills, as we perceived when we employed him to catch goats for us : we had a bull-dog, which we sent with several of our nimblest runners, to help him...
Side 123 - Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere.
Side 205 - Duchess" showed a French ensign. Immediately our pinnace returned from the shore, and brought abundance of cray-fish, with a man clothed in goat's skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the "Cinque Ports;" his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the "Cinque Ports...
Side 663 - She knew what she was going to do — she was going to search for an ash barrel near old Portsmouth Square.

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