Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 8, 2025
"Yo' Yanks," she said scornfully, "think yourselves moughty smart with all your book-larnin', and yo'uns put on heaps o' airs over po' folks what hain't no eddication; but what you don't know about Tennessee woods would make a bigger book than ever was printed." "I believe you," said Shorty fervently.
He, however, managed to sit still for the space of five minutes or so on the wall, whistling vigorously. 'I 'opes as you be a-gittin' on brisk with your book-larnin', Muster Alick? Binks lifted his head, after the prolonged silence, to regard, with a critical air, the boy who sat dangling his feet above.
"Oh, I can swing clubs, and box, and fence," she cried, successively striking the typical postures; "and swim, and make high dives, chin a bar twenty times, and and walk on my hands. There!" "Is that what ye've been doin'? I thought ye wint away for book-larnin'," he commented, dryly. "But they have new ways of teaching, now, Matt, and they don't turn you out with your head crammed "
Seems's if he hid his trail all the way from New Hampshire somehow, for as a usual thing, a man o' book-larnin' like him would be remembered wherever he went. Wouldn't you call Aaron Boynton a turrible larned man, Timothy?"
"Tain't book-larnin' 'tain't what you'd get in book larnin' in Boston, Cynthy." "What, then?" she asked. "Well," said Jethro, "they'd teach you to be a lady, Cynthy." "A lady!" "Your father come of good people, and and your mother was a lady. I'm only a rough old man, Cynthy, and I don't know much about the ways of fine folks.
But among this grim and earthy crew there was one exception, a 'hop out of kin, of whom all the rest made sport. This was the second son, Richard, who showed such a persistent tendency to 'book-larnin', and such a persistent idiocy in all matters pertaining to the land, that nothing was left to the father at last but to send him with many oaths to the grammar school at Whinborough.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking