قراءة كتاب A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 2
tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">208
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| You can pay five cents to the Elevated Railroad and get here, or you can put some other man's nickel in your own slot and come here with an attendant | Frontispiece |
| His old look of apprehensive cordiality did not leave him until he had seen me climb on a load of hay with my trunk and start for home | 15 |
| Then they tied a string of sleighbells to his tail, and hit him a smart, stinging blow with a black snake | 27 |
| My idea was to apply it to the wall mostly, but the chair tipped, and so I papered the piano and my wife on the way down | 36 |
| Frogs build their nests there in the spring and rear their young, but people never go there | 45 |
| I improved the time by cultivating the acquaintance of the beautiful and picturesque outcasts known as the Piute Indians | 57 |
| He sometimes succeeds in getting himself disliked by some other dog and then I can observe the fight | 67 |
| Then rolling my trousers up a yard or two, I struck off into the scrub pine, carrying with me a large board | 74 |
| He looked up sadly at me with his one eye as who should say, "Have you got any more of that there red paint left?" | 105 |
| "Mr. Nye, on behalf of this vast assemblage (tremulo), I thank God that you are POOR!!!" | 115 |
| Three or four times as much oxygen is consumed in activity as in repose, hence the hornets' nests introduced by me last season | 124 |
| Playing billiards, accompanied by the vicious habit of pounding on the floor with the butt of the cue ever and anon, produces at last optical illusions | 149 |
| Mr. Whatley hadn't gone more than half a mile when he heard the wild and disappointed yells of the Salvation army | 159 |
| "I was in a large, cool hosspital which smelt strong of some forrin substans. The hed doctor had been breathing on me and so I come too" | 163 |
| Said the Governor as he swung around with his feet over in our part of the carriage and asked me for a light | 181 |
| He therefore had to borrow a bald-headed man to act as bust for him in the evening | 194 |
| It was at this time that he noticed the swinging of a lamp in a church, and observing that the oscillations were of equal duration | 202 |
| Here Andrew turned the grindstone in the shed, while a large, heavy neighbor got on and rode for an hour or two | 210 |
| "A man that crosses Broadway for a year can be mayor of Boston, but my idee is that he's a heap more likely to be mayor of the New Jerusalem" |