United States or South Africa ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I reached for my pipe a fellow so used to it but the devils in the canyon had cached that too. "'You wish to smoke, Mr. Hatcher? we will have cigars. Here! he called to an imp near him, 'some cigars. "They was brought in on a waiter, about the size of my bullet-pouch.
Why don't a man like you hitch up with Chadron or Hatcher, or one of the good men of this country, and git out from amongst them runts that's nosin' around in the ground for a livin' like a drove of hogs?" "Every man to his liking, Banjo," Macdonald returned, "and I don't like the company you've named."
Both the Convention and the Assembly had been anxiously waiting for the English Commissioners, and were delighted when they arrived. They were six in all Sir William Armyn, Sir Harry Vane the younger, Mr. Hatcher, and Mr. Darley, from the Parliament; and Stephen Marshall and Philip Nye from the Westminster Divines.
When Hatcher was approaching the immediate vicinity of Wagon Mound, with his train strung out in single column, to his great astonishment there suddenly charged on him from over the hill about three hundred savages, all feather-bedecked and painted in the highest style of Indian art.
The Egyptian hatcher in his long experience has learned just about how much airholes and smudge fire are necessary to get results. With these kept constant and the atmosphere constant, we have more nearly perfect conditions of incubation than are to be found anywhere else in the world, and I do not except the natural methods.
As I slowly recalled my collegiate studies and paleontological readings in Bowen's textbooks, I realized that I had looked upon nothing less than a diplodocus of the Upper Jurassic; but how infinitely different was the true, live thing from the crude restorations of Hatcher and Holland! I had had the idea that the diplodocus was a land-animal, but evidently it is partially amphibious.
General Warren advanced and extended his line across the Boydton Plank Road to near the White Oak Road, with a view of getting across the latter; but, finding the enemy strong in his front and extending beyond his left, was directed to hold on where he was, and fortify. General Humphreys drove the enemy from his front into his main line on the Hatcher, near Burgess's Mills.
If it ain't a fact, I don't know fat cow from poor bull." Hatcher always ended his yarn with this declaration, and you could never make him believe that he had had only a touch of delirium tremens. This story is related by Colonel W. F. Cody:
Word Of The Day