Selections of American Humour in Prose and VerseJohn Hamer Cassell, 1883 - 318 pages |
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Page 68
... sweet ways had quite won us all , sank on the snow , and said " Let me sleep . " We knew only too well what that meant , and tried hard to rouse him . It was in vain . " Let me sleep , " he said . And so in the cold starlight he died ...
... sweet ways had quite won us all , sank on the snow , and said " Let me sleep . " We knew only too well what that meant , and tried hard to rouse him . It was in vain . " Let me sleep , " he said . And so in the cold starlight he died ...
Page 85
... sweet little man ? All the brave boys under canvas are sleeping , All of them pressing to march with the van , Far from the home where their sweethearts are weeping ; What are you waiting for , sweet little man ? You with the terrible ...
... sweet little man ? All the brave boys under canvas are sleeping , All of them pressing to march with the van , Far from the home where their sweethearts are weeping ; What are you waiting for , sweet little man ? You with the terrible ...
Page 86
... sweet little man . Catch me confiding my person with strangers ! Think how the cowardly Bull - Runners ran ! In the brigade of the Stay - at - home Rangers Marches my corps , says the sweet little man . Such was the stuff of the ...
... sweet little man . Catch me confiding my person with strangers ! Think how the cowardly Bull - Runners ran ! In the brigade of the Stay - at - home Rangers Marches my corps , says the sweet little man . Such was the stuff of the ...
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