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. 1849 Excerpt: ...in the long matted grass and lilyroots. I hardly got a real good look at him, before he rolled himself up into a ball, like a porcupine, and shrieked---oh, how he shrieked l I heard_him afterwards, for the matter ofthree or four minutes, (for you may depend I didn't stay to keep him company longer than I could help) ...
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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. 1849 Excerpt: ...in the long matted grass and lilyroots. I hardly got a real good look at him, before he rolled himself up into a ball, like a porcupine, and shrieked---oh, how he shrieked l I heard_him afterwards, for the matter ofthree or four minutes, (for you may depend I didn't stay to keep him company longer than I could help) whilel was galloping off as hard as ever my horse could lay legs to the ground.' I wouldn't encounter that old Judge agin, for anything in this blessed world. That's the first, and the last, and the only time I ever see a ghost; andl never desire to see another." " What did your neighbours think of that story?" said Barclay. " Well, I didn't want to brag," said Stephen; " but, since you've'axed the question, this I will say for myself--there never was a_ man the whole county of Annapolis, that so much as even hinted that he', din't believe it, except old Parson Rogers, of Digby; and plague take me if I think them ministers believe half they preach themselves, they are so loath to believe other folks. The parson one day jist up and axed me all about it. " ' Steve, ' says he, ' they tell me you have seen the old Judge; is that true?' _ " ' Oh, parson l' says I, ' now you are only a goin' for to banter me; let me alone, now, that's a good 'soul, for that ain't a subject to banter on; and I might say something I would be sorry for, perhaps.' ' H " ' l am not a going to tease you, Stephen, ' he said: ' l really want to hear it as it happened, if it ever did happen. They say you had a hard struggle with him; is that true?'. ' " ' True as gospel, ' s...
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HALIBURTON, Thomas Chandler. THE OLD JUDGE; OR, LIFE IN A COLONY. Two Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1849. Small 8vo., brown buckram cloth, with leather spine labels. First Edition. Good (some wear & bit of dampstaining to covers, ink name on title page of Volume II). $125.00.
