This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...skin beneath, HARD TO CATCH. The worst were put; Yi feel no thrill To make me shiver as though an ague chill Did all my joints and nerves undo, Till I sit chattering like a fanning mill, Perhaps when sitting in the still church pew, Where I should think of heaven instead of things like you. I grant there's naught on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...skin beneath, HARD TO CATCH. The worst were put; Yi feel no thrill To make me shiver as though an ague chill Did all my joints and nerves undo, Till I sit chattering like a fanning mill, Perhaps when sitting in the still church pew, Where I should think of heaven instead of things like you. I grant there's naught on earth nor in the sea, Nor in the windy waste around our rolling sphere, That can at all compare with thy agility When thou art taken with a sense of fear. And what was ever formed that can come near Thy well knit bones? Thy curs'd infrangibility Is too well known to need long mention here, For who but oft has seen thee spring away quite free, Although between the fingers long rolled most spitefully. June 25th. TAKE away the dish; my gorge rises at it, I have had my fill of Modoc; have had buck for breakfast, squaw for dinner, and papoose for supper, until at the very mention of Indian, my appetite forsakes me. The appellations that for a season fell upon my ears, like a new poem from the lips of some sweet bard, have poetry for me no longer. The names, " Captain Jack," "Scarfaced Charlie," "Shacknasty Jim," or "Ellen's Man," have lost their charm. They have become dull and uninteresting, and I would hear them no more for252 AN INFAMOUS FRAUD. ever. I have been duped, deceived, defrauded, on account of these rascally Modocs. I have gazed in Bilent awe upon what I supposed to be the scalp of no less a personage than " Old Sconchin," and it now transpires that the redoubtable old chief turns up among the Indians recently captured. Oh! Lord, how this world is given to lying! I have journeyed long and far, by water and by rail, on horseback and on foot, and purchased at an extravagant price an Indian'...
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