A Southern ReaderWillard Thorp This anthology that looks at various aspects of life in the South. |
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Page 333
... fight , Mr B. it appears accused Mr Armatt of having been the author of Some piece that appeared in the Courrier and Journal office - this is said to have been the origin of it . To Day Mother paid me Sixty Dollars and She now owes me ...
... fight , Mr B. it appears accused Mr Armatt of having been the author of Some piece that appeared in the Courrier and Journal office - this is said to have been the origin of it . To Day Mother paid me Sixty Dollars and She now owes me ...
Page 406
... fight was refined until it became as much a convention as the bragging contest of the Anglo - Saxon heroes in the mead - hall . The " bruising , Goughing , Biting , and ballocking " with which the ruder citizens of the South , and the ...
... fight was refined until it became as much a convention as the bragging contest of the Anglo - Saxon heroes in the mead - hall . The " bruising , Goughing , Biting , and ballocking " with which the ruder citizens of the South , and the ...
Page 548
... fight ; so from playing they fell to harder work , and throughout this period county court day was the monthly Monday on which the Kentuckian regularly did his fight- ing . He availed himself liberally of election day , it is true , and ...
... fight ; so from playing they fell to harder work , and throughout this period county court day was the monthly Monday on which the Kentuckian regularly did his fight- ing . He availed himself liberally of election day , it is true , and ...
Contents
I | 3 |
THE LAND | 20 |
BRYANT TOURS THE SOUTH William Cullen Bryant | 30 |
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