Highways and Byways of the Mississippi ValleyMacmillan, 1906 - 287 páginas |
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Página 157 - A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away; cleared here and there for the space of a few yards ; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold ; a...
Página 106 - the gentleman from Arkansaw." Among the state's immediate neighbors it is customary to speak slightingly of conditions across the line, and you would gather the impression that life and manners there were rather cruder than anywhere else in the great valley. The outside dwellers take particular pleasure in repeating a curious legend known as "The Arkansaw Traveler." This tale has been a favorite for more than half a century, and, told properly, it has a musical accompaniment. Formerly, whenever there...
Página 157 - ... the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold; a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise: a place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it: such is this dismal Cairo.
Página 194 - From each according to his powers, to each according to his needs," for this would assign the lowest aggregate cost and the highest aggregate utility to any product.
Página 144 - See pp. 1 27, 129-30, 141-43, 145, for notes on dialect. On p. 146 is the tale of a widower who married six months after his wife's death; "He could have kept a loaf of bread over of his first wife's baking, for his second wife's eating if he'd had a real good place to put it." See pp. 146-47 for "it's an old saying, if a woman marries a Missouri man she'll have to carry water half a mile up hill all her life, and that's about so.
Página 127 - Things ain't bringin' as much as they did one while. Eggs have been as high as twenty-five cents a dozen, and butter twenty cents a pound. Now we only get fifteen cents for butter, or ten cents if we sell to a neighbor. Eggs are sixteen cents, and 'tain't likely we'll be gittin' that much longer. I've known 'em to go down to four cents.
Página 40 - Hit's jus' a-smokin' in thar; " and he heaved the boots over into the brush where the alligator was and walked the rest of the way in his stocking-feet. We arrived at Dakin's, stiff and lame, and sat down on his gallery to revive. Dakin soon came in from the field where he had been planting corn and began spitting through the hole in the gallery floor and asking what luck we had had. After we finished relating our adventures, Jake, who had been watching the approach of a boy on the broken causeway...
Página 103 - ... course there's potatoes and cornmeal lightbread, and pickles and cake, and there's ice cream, and there's pure, genuine, strong coffee that the old ladies make, in abundance. Then there's fried chicken, if any one is fastidious enough to want it, and some enterprising fellow is likely to bring half a dozen bottles of beer and invite his special friends out to his buggy to drink it. But the best thing to my thinkin