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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. 1885. Excerpt: ... AB-OTH'-YATE IN YANKHELAND. FIRST TRIP, 1880. CHAPTER I. THE VOYAGE OUT. The idea of taking my old friend "Ab" to grass among "fresh fields, and pastures new," originated with me some years ago; but allowing circumstances to get the better of my determination, the project had to be shelved, where it had remained only to be dusted, and redusted, ever since. The time came at last, when the trip could be put off no longer; and on the 22nd of April Ab bade farewell to Walmsley Fowt, accompanied as far as Liverpool by his "old "rib," and "troops of friends," to wish him God speed on his voyage. It was not an everyday matter for our friend to get away from his home. There were associations that were dear to him. There was his garden, already lighted up with a lustre of flowers; his beehive, that while he was away would be musical with industrial life; his loom, B that would be silent until it was covered with dust and cobwebs; the old bobbinwheel, now no longer doing duty as a " feel-loss-o'-speed;" the gate which for hundreds of hours he had sat upon absorbed in dreams of his peculiar philosophy--these would be among the first things missed. Then there was the " Old Bell!" What could he do without his accustomed nightcap at that glorious "rallying point, ' and his frequent skits with "Fause Juddie?" What was there in the land he was going to that would compensate for the loss of all these? There was nothing that the future yet promised; and, lacking this, his spirits succumbed to melancholy. But there was one thought that would cause him to smile when the dumps were deepest. If he could fleece a Yankee, or scalp an Indian, or shoot a buffalo, or tell the biggest lie, these extraordinary feats might afford a little satisfaction to one who is not in the habit of ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150858543
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150858540
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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