The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary TwinsAmerican Publishing Company, 1894 - 432 páginas When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again. |
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... knife into him two or three times before the boys could snatch him away and give the wounded lad a chance to escape . He was considerably hurt , but not seriously . If the blade had been a little longer his career would have ended there ...
... knife into him two or three times before the boys could snatch him away and give the wounded lad a chance to escape . He was considerably hurt , but not seriously . If the blade had been a little longer his career would have ended there ...
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... knives , or dirks , or whatever it may be called - here , I'll draw it for you . " He took a sheet of paper and made a rapid sketch . " There it is - a broad and murderous blade , with edges like a razor for sharpness . The devices ...
... knives , or dirks , or whatever it may be called - here , I'll draw it for you . " He took a sheet of paper and made a rapid sketch . " There it is - a broad and murderous blade , with edges like a razor for sharpness . The devices ...
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... knife , and the Gaikowar was a man short by reason of it . The sheath is magnificently orna- mented with gems of great value . You will find the sheath more worth looking at than the knife itself , of course . " Tom said to himself ...
... knife , and the Gaikowar was a man short by reason of it . The sheath is magnificently orna- mented with gems of great value . You will find the sheath more worth looking at than the knife itself , of course . " Tom said to himself ...
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... knife out of the sheath and was ready , and un- embarrassed by hampering bed - clothes , for the weather was hot and we had n't any . Suddenly that native rose at the bedside , and bent over me with his right hand lifted and a dirk in ...
... knife out of the sheath and was ready , and un- embarrassed by hampering bed - clothes , for the weather was hot and we had n't any . Suddenly that native rose at the bedside , and bent over me with his right hand lifted and a dirk in ...
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... Buckstone . " Yes ; five hundred dollars for the knife , and five hundred more for the thief . " FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD For the return an Indian Dagge ་ ་ " What a leather - headed idea ! " exclaimed PUDD'NHEAD WILSON . 175.
... Buckstone . " Yes ; five hundred dollars for the knife , and five hundred more for the thief . " FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD For the return an Indian Dagge ་ ་ " What a leather - headed idea ! " exclaimed PUDD'NHEAD WILSON . 175.
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Página 15 - Wilson's Calendar. THE SCENE of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-story frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles and morning-glories.
Página 261 - Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman : if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife ; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.— Pudd'nAead Wilson's Calendar.
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