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... told by one of the most famous frontiersmen of our history . What does the selec- tion tell about pioneer life ? ** I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker , by the name of John Kennedy , who had removed from North Carolina ...
... told by one of the most famous frontiersmen of our history . What does the selec- tion tell about pioneer life ? ** I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker , by the name of John Kennedy , who had removed from North Carolina ...
Page 163
... told these things by the people there , in 1896 . We had the " faith doctor , " too , in those early days - a woman . Her specialty was toothache . She was a farmer's old wife and lived five miles from Hannibal . She would lay her hand ...
... told these things by the people there , in 1896 . We had the " faith doctor , " too , in those early days - a woman . Her specialty was toothache . She was a farmer's old wife and lived five miles from Hannibal . She would lay her hand ...
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... told him , to require urgently a summer in the mountains . Leaving this sub- ject , he jumped to the local news of the town where he was then living , and told one or two amusing stories . In one of them I remember was this phrase , " I ...
... told him , to require urgently a summer in the mountains . Leaving this sub- ject , he jumped to the local news of the town where he was then living , and told one or two amusing stories . In one of them I remember was this phrase , " I ...
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