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Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself.
To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs loo...CATEGORY
Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
By and by, when I was older, she brought home the word Unintellectual, one time, and worked it pretty hard all the week at different gatherings, making much unhappiness and despondency; and it was at this time that I noticed that during that week she was asked for the meaning at eight different a...
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Death of Judge Hawkins
When I was well grown, at last, I was sold and taken away, and I never saw her again. She was broken-hearted, and so was I, and we cried; but she comforted me as well as she could, and said we were sent into this world for a wise and good purpose, and must do our duties without repining, take our...