 The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family...  The Works of Washington Irving. - Seite 471861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 707 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888
...at all country frolics for husking Indian-corn, or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to any-« body's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | 1891 - 414 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 462 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 382 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but is to doing family duty and keeping... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 246 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and...jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do foi them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 246 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odft jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do foi them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 99 Seiten
...at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stonefences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odo\ jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do foi them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend... | |
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