 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 Seiten
...would need to feel the dire necessity of recording the sage observation of a Dutch housewife, that "ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves." Irving, however, in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has sufficient leisure to make this observation and... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 Seiten
...would need to feel the dire necessity of recording the sage observation of a Dutch housewife, that " ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but skirls can take care of themselves." Irving, however, in The Legend of Sleepy Holloiv, has sufficient... | |
 | 1912 - 414 Seiten
...everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese...her spinning wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden... | |
 | Lionel Strachey, Joel Chandler Harris, Andrew Lang, Brander Matthews, William Hayes Ward, Horatio Sheafe Krans - 1906 - 316 Seiten
...care of themselves. Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza., honest Bait would sit smoking his evening 97 pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword... | |
 | 1914 - 442 Seiten
...reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything. His notable little wife, 25 too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping...the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel 3o at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 Seiten
...way in everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her house- 30 keeping and manage the poultry; for, as she sagely observed,...the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Bait would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 346 Seiten
...than his pipe, and like a reasonable man, and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to...the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 Seiten
...everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry ; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese...after, but girls can take care of themselves. Thus 25 while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 Seiten
...thing. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese...the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Bait would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other,... | |
 | 1918 - 424 Seiten
...everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry ; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese...foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can usually take care of themselves. Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel... | |
| |
Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza... 
