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Horses. 21 $ 4 Despite this almost universal urge , there was no hankering for the law in Ulysses . He was incapable of the mental sleight of hand which a lawyer needs ; not only that , he was without the desire to acquire it .
Horses. 21 $ 4 Despite this almost universal urge , there was no hankering for the law in Ulysses . He was incapable of the mental sleight of hand which a lawyer needs ; not only that , he was without the desire to acquire it .
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Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to a buggy and was bringing home from Kentucky . ... He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the ...
Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to a buggy and was bringing home from Kentucky . ... He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the ...
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After that he writes of the price of mules eight dollars a piece . . . herds of herds of wild horses on the plains . . . lots of game in the country , too ... then comes the story of his futile turkey hunt that I have given in an ...
After that he writes of the price of mules eight dollars a piece . . . herds of herds of wild horses on the plains . . . lots of game in the country , too ... then comes the story of his futile turkey hunt that I have given in an ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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