 | 1825 - 826 pages
...to go with me I Give you, sais I, are you John ! Yes, «ayg he, for want of a Better ; And behold 1 this John look't as old as my host, and perhaps had...agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain. " My hostess catechis'd John for going so cheep, saying his poor wife would break her... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 502 pages
...and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me? Give you,sais I, are you John ? Yes, sais he, for want of a Better ; And behold ! this John...agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain." — pp. 10,11. impassable, they finally arrived at Billinges, twelve miles from Dedham.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 562 pages
...surprise, son John arose, and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me? "Give you?" says I, " are you John ? " " Yes," says he, " for want of a better ; " and behold ! this John looked as old as my host, and perhaps had been a man in the last century. " Well, Mr. John," says I,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...no small surprise, son John arrose, and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me? . . . Well, Mr. John, sais I, make your demands. Why, half a pss. [piece] of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 714 pages
...no small surprise, son John arrose, and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me? Give you, sais I, are you John? Yes, says he, for want...John, sais I, make your demands. Why, half a pss. No. so] A Lady's Travel in New England 225 of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 390 pages
...surprise, son John arose, and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me ? " Give you ? " says I, " are you John?" "Yes," says he, "for want of a better ;" and behold ! this John looked as old as my host, and perhaps had been a man in the last century. " Well, Mr. John," says I,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 pages
...[the landlord's son], and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me ? ' Give you ? ' says I, ' are you John ? ' ' Yes,' says he, ' for want of a better ; ' and behold ! this John looked as old as my host, and perhaps had been a man in the last century. 'Well, Mr. John,' says I,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 434 pages
...[the landlord's son], and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me ? ' Give you ? ' says I, ' are you John ? ' ' Yes,' says he, ' for want of a better ; ' and behold ! this John looked as old as my host, and perhaps had been a man in the last century. ' Well, Mr. John,' says I,... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1907 - 496 pages
...no small surprise, son John arrose, and gravely demanded what I would give him to go with me? Give you, sais I, are you John? Yes, says he, for want...Well, Mr. John, sais I, make your demands. Why, half a pass of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain.... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1907 - 526 pages
...perhaps had bin a man in the last Century. Well, Mr. John, sais I, make your demands. Why, half a pass of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain. " My hostess catechis'd John for going so cheep, saying his poor wife would break her... | |
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I, make your demands. Why, half a pss. of eight and a dram, sais John. I agreed, and gave him a Dram (now) in hand to bind the bargain. My hostess catechis'd John for going so... 
