 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 244 Seiten
...wrong, and would, according to his account, never come right in spite of him. 6. His fences were always falling to pieces. His cow would either go astray...in his fields than anywhere else. The rain always came just when he had some outdoor work to do. His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian-corn and potatoes,... | |
 | 1888 - 742 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by sere, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 624 Seiten
...; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 Seiten
...the most pestilent little piece of ground in so the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere 5 patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 276 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | 1891 - 432 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 Seiten
...little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, 12 WASHINGTON IRVING. and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were...the rain always made a point of setting in just as lie had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 Seiten
...was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were...cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields tnan anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to... | |
| |
... else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn... 
