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. 1918 Excerpt: ... days when ye sal-va-ges lived in ye land, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine 2. But now as the le-gend doth tru-ly re-late, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine 3. Now Poc-a-hon-tas hear-ing ye vote, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine A may-den was born of ye can-ni-bal race, Who de-light-ed not in ye He was doom'd to be hung orknock'don ye head, By ye sal-vage ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ... days when ye sal-va-ges lived in ye land, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine 2. But now as the le-gend doth tru-ly re-late, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine 3. Now Poc-a-hon-tas hear-ing ye vote, Vi-ve le Cap-i-taine A may-den was born of ye can-ni-bal race, Who de-light-ed not in ye He was doom'd to be hung orknock'don ye head, By ye sal-vage adze of ye If you '11 promise to give your heart to me, You shall keep your head and lut loved to view ye jov-ial face Of ye jol-lie Cap-i-taine John. Vive le Cap-i-taine John. Vive le Cap-i-taine John. 1. In the days of old, ere the world grew cold, When the U-ni-ver-si-ties To 2. What merry, merry noise of mon-key boys, Rang thro' our wooded hill I The 3. And then, and then, there was no steel pen, No lines for play-ing the fool, And we 4. And the way that we did our his-to-ry Was bet-ter by far for the head, We / on PR Pfe' Pfc' (T' r N lfTfc J Ei 1/?p w Wimble-don sent their man-drils bold, And learn-ed chim-pan-zees;--co-coa-nuts brown were our on-ly toys, But there was-n't a sin-gle Bill, lay in the leaves un-til half-past ten, For there was no first school, had-n't to learn our dates B. C, But we ate them all in-stead. palms grew green on the top of the hill, And I was a mon-key boy. Then stern pa-pas were gor-il-las, And all the naught-y pets That For foot-ball these were too small to please, For crick-et far too big; But we We had ri-fle-men grand to fight for the land, But be-ing short of rifles, They And all the boys then, whether monkeys or men, Were as they will al-ways be; There now tor-ment their fond mammas, Were good little mar-mo-sets. And P f' 'r ji 51 now tor-ment their fond mammas, Were good little mar-mo-sets, played with them anyhow un-der the trees, And we did not care a fig. pelt-ed the nuts as they came to hand, Or oth-
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Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1898 PRINTING. Text unmarked. Some page-turn soiling/foxing spots. Covers show heavy edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge chipping. Hinges cracked but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good. Revised. Very good. Ex school library book, stamped and Inscribed on inside cover. 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.