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. 1890 Excerpt: ...the day was dark an' drizzly. There ain't nothin' shinin'er an' goldier than them flowers with the different kinds o' yeller in 'em; they'll most freckle ye, they're so much like the sun shinin'. Then the next gen'ration come Gran'pa Knapp--his giv'n name was Ezry--an' he was bedrid for more'n six year. An' he had ...
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...the day was dark an' drizzly. There ain't nothin' shinin'er an' goldier than them flowers with the different kinds o' yeller in 'em; they'll most freckle ye, they're so much like the sun shinin'. Then the next gen'ration come Gran'pa Knapp--his giv'n name was Ezry--an' he was bedrid for more'n six year. An' he had butterneggs planted in boxes an' stood all 'round his bed, an' he did take sech cumf't in 'em. The hull room was yeller with 'em, an' they give him a sort o' biliousy, jandersy look; but he did set so by 'em; an' the very last growin' thing the good old man ever set eyes o:1 here b'low, afore he see the green fields beyond the swellin' flood, was them bright an' shinin' butterneggs. An' his sister Hopey, she 't married Enoch Ambler o' Greens Farms, I never shall forgit her butterneggs border't run all 'round her gard'n; the pea-green leaves an' yeller an' saffrony blooms looked for all the world like biled sparrergrass with chopped-egg sarce. "Well, you'll wonder what on airth I'm at with all this rigmajig 'bout the Knappses an' their ways; but you'll see bimeby that it's all got suthin' to do with the story I begun on 'bout my sister, an' the way I come to lose her an' find her ag'in. There's jest one thing more I must put in, an' that's how the Knappses gen'lly died. 'Twas eenamost allers o' dum'aigger. That's what they called it them days; I s'pose 'twould be malairy now; but that wa'n't invented then, an' we had to git along 's well's we could without sech lux'ries. The Knappses was long-lived--called threescore 'n ten bein' cut off in the midst o' your days--but when they did come ter die 'twas most gen'lly o' dum'aigger. But even 'bout that they had their own ways; an' when a Knapp--our branch I would say--got dum'aigger, why, 'twas dum...
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Contains several stories including "Fishin' Jimmy." Original publisher's covers in gray cloth with a nicely decorated cover in white & gilt. Old birthday inscription card laid in. Black & white frontis illustration by A. B. Frost A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings; spine slightly darkened. Copyright date is 1890. Ref: Wright 4969; B&W Illustration; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 281 pages.
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Good. Good, book has rub of edges, fraying of spine and corners of cover, soiling of cover, stain along front cover edge, name of former owner front endpaper, yellowing pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
