A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... crop was everywhere Indian corn , which furnishes the food for man and beast , and the cash sales evidently of hogs and beef . of the farms had been a great while under cultivation . Many Large old orchards were frequent , now loaded ...
... crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty bushels without unusual pains . On the train we found acquaintances , and had much animated conversation and advice upon our plans of travel . We could not help observing that the ...
... crop was larger still . The expenses of the family ( not very heavy , if our dinner was an in- dication ) and of the negroes would probably be defrayed by the swine and corn crop , and the profits should have been , in two years , full ...
... crop , and so use up several years ' profits . A slate hung in the piazza , with the names of all the cotton- pickers , and the quantity picked the last picking day by each , thus : Gorge , 152 ; David , 130 ; Polly , 98 ; Hanna , 96 ...
... crops by . the roadside ; but , generally , dogged , surly , and silent . The women are silent , too , frequently walking , to relieve the teams , and weary , haggard , mud be - draggled , 56 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .