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. 1870 Excerpt: ... let the fate-of my poor nephew be a warning to mothers K against bringing up their daughters to be "Charmik Creatures." BALDWIN. THE GANDER PULLING. In the year 1798 I resided in the city of Augusta and, upon visiting the market-house one morning in that year, my attention was called to the following notice, stuck ...
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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. 1870 Excerpt: ... let the fate-of my poor nephew be a warning to mothers K against bringing up their daughters to be "Charmik Creatures." BALDWIN. THE GANDER PULLING. In the year 1798 I resided in the city of Augusta and, upon visiting the market-house one morning in that year, my attention was called to the following notice, stuck upon one of the pillars of the building.. "advurtysement. "Thos woo wish To be inform heareof, is heareof notyfide that edwd. Prator will giv a gander pullin, jis this side of harisburg, oil Satterday of thes pressenta munth to All woo mout wish to partak tharof. "e Prator, thos wishin to purtak will cum yearly, as the pullin will begin soon. "c. p." If I am asked why "jis this side of harisburg" was selected for the promised feat instead of the city of Augusta, I answer from conjecture, but with some confidence, because the-ground chosen was near the central point between four rival towns, the citizens o all which "mout wish to partak tharof;" namely, Augusta, Springfield, Harrisburg, and Campbellton. Not that each was the rival of all the others, but lhat the first and the last were competitors, and each of the others backed the pretensions of its nearest neighbour Harrisburg sided with Campbellton, not because she had any interest in seeing the business of the two state.: centre upon the bank of the river, nearly opposite to her, but because, like the " Union Democratic Republican Party of Georgia," she thought, after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, that the several towns of the confederacy should no longer be "separated" by the distinction of local party; but that, laying down all former prejudices and jealousies as a sacrifice on the altar of their country, ...
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