 I walked towards the top of the street gazing about till near Market Street, where I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's, he directed me to. I asked for biscuits,...  The Monthly critical gazette - Page 3901824Full view - About this book
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to....we had at Boston: that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none. Not knowing the different... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to....had at Boston : that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none. Not knowing the different... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 512 pages
...I met a boy with oread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to....had at Boston : that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none. Not knowing the different... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to....biscuits, meaning such as we had at Boston ; that sort, it se«ms. was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none.... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...I met a boy with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to....had at Boston ; that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none. Not knowing the different... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - Books and reading - 1950 - 312 pages
...Street, and asked for biscuits, intending such as we had in Boston; they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a threepenny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money and the great cheapness nor the names of... | |
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