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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...cs Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...him again on Sunday in his state-coat and cocked- hat, with a large-headed staff for show in his left hand, and a small cane for use in his right. How... ...ing on the stone floor of the aisle with astounding clearness. Observe the generalship of the beadle. His involuntary look of horror is instantly chan... ...e length, terminating in two large seals and a key. He is an attorney, and generally in a bustle; at no time more so, than when he is hurrying to some... ... ducted in the politest manner.)—‘Did you ever happen to hear I was in the army, sir?’—’No, sir. ’—‘Oh, yes, sir— I can go through my exercise, sir. ’... ...ked countenances, in very old green tunics, and dirty drab boots, are the ‘army. ’ ‘Look sharp below there, gents, ’ exclaims the dresser, a red-heade... ...formed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the exertio... ..., as if she were pleased: not so much at the prob- ability of her mother’s liberation, as at the chance of her ‘getting off’ in spite of her prosecuto...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ...tant one to him, though he would n’t let on what. You see, it ’s just like the army; he signed for two years, and the only way to get free was to buy ... ... men till there were no more left who dared to fight. Then they made themselves chiefs, and took away our old laws and gave us new ones, insomuch that ... ... for the time of famine. And these things were good. “But when they had become chiefs, and there were no more men to face their anger, they fought, th... ...h the mane of a sea lion, they laughed, and answered me in the tongues of many peoples. And I found that they hailed from the uttermost parts of the e... ...m of the land robbing and sea robbing Anglo Saxon to give the law to conquered peoples, and ofttimes this law is harsh. But in the case of Imber the l... ...urse I know, and I know for a fact.” The Red One 25 T HERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound, as he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened to ... ... released. The next moment he was lost in ecstasy at the abrupt and thunderous liberation of sound. But such thunder! Mellow it was with precious nes...