 Southern poor white. This person often lives with his family in a wagon ; he rarely follows any steady industry ; he is frequently a squatter on other people's lands; ' he owns a rifle, a lot of children and dogs, a wife, and, if he can read, a law-book,'...  More about Names - Strana 29autor/autoři: Leopold Wagner - 1893 - 287 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Charles Nordhoff - 1873 - 262 str.
...the wandering gypsy-like Southern poor white. This person often lives with his family in a wagon ; he rarely follows any steady industry ; he is frequently...character to me ; " he moves from place to place, as the humor seizes him, and is generally an injury to his neighbors. He will not work regularly; but he has... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 str.
...rarely follows any steady industry; he is frequently a squatter on other people's lands; ' he owus a rifle, a lot of children and dogs, a wife, and,...character to me; he moves' from place to place, as the humor seizes him, and is generally an injury to his neighlxjrs. He will network regularly; but he has... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1889 - 882 str.
...the wandering, gypsy-like, Southern poor white. This person often lives with his family in a wagon ; he rarely follows any steady industry ; he is frequently...character to me; he moves from place to place, as the humor seizes him, and is generally an injury to his neighbors. He will not work regularly; but he has... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2001 - 658 str.
...family in a wagon," John Russell Bartlelt reported in his Dictionary of Americanisms I877i under "Pike": "he is frequently a squatter on other people's lands;...wife, and, if he can read, a law-book,' said a lawyer ... ; he moves from place to place, as the humor sei/es him, and is generally an injury to Pike County... | |
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