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... horses were checked so as to let her line so slacken as to drop down under our boat , her horses were whipped up by a sneering boy on a tall bay steed , her team went outside ours on the tow - path , and the passage was made . They made ...
... horses were checked so as to let her line so slacken as to drop down under our boat , her horses were whipped up by a sneering boy on a tall bay steed , her team went outside ours on the tow - path , and the passage was made . They made ...
Page 183
... horses to wade in the channel of a swol- len stream in the middle of the night ? They must have been trying to travel without leaving tracks , just as I had done . Their talk showed them to be bad characters , and their fox - like ...
... horses to wade in the channel of a swol- len stream in the middle of the night ? They must have been trying to travel without leaving tracks , just as I had done . Their talk showed them to be bad characters , and their fox - like ...
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... horse , and had begun sharpening the lay of a breaking - plow - when up rode Pitt Bushyager on one of the horses he and his gang had had in the Grove of Destiny back beyond Waterloo . I must have started when I saw him ; for he glanced ...
... horse , and had begun sharpening the lay of a breaking - plow - when up rode Pitt Bushyager on one of the horses he and his gang had had in the Grove of Destiny back beyond Waterloo . I must have started when I saw him ; for he glanced ...
Contents
A Flat Dutch Turnip Begins Its Career I | 1 |
Adventure on the Old Ridge Road | 114 |
an Embarrassing Addition | 136 |
Copyright | |
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Tales of an Old Horsetrader: The First Hundred Years Leroy Judson Daniels,Helen S. Herrick No preview available - 1987 |
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