Reciprocity |
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Author:
| Coolidge, Asenath Carver |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-54088-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHATTIER VI. THE DOG YAP SCENTS A STOKM. After the departure of the Professor and wife, someone began to thrum on the piano in the cabin below. The notes were unusually discordant, jerky and rambling. So much so that Auber fell to wondering if atmospheric pressure might not have something to do with it. He...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHATTIER VI. THE DOG YAP SCENTS A STOKM. After the departure of the Professor and wife, someone began to thrum on the piano in the cabin below. The notes were unusually discordant, jerky and rambling. So much so that Auber fell to wondering if atmospheric pressure might not have something to do with it. He fancied clumsy human fingers running wildly over the keys, seeking for expression even as the Professor's bugs and reptiles were running wild to get out of their prison. But this was not the end of it. Presently a voice in a high key sang out: And only man is vile. Yap whined and looked wistfully into his master's face. Yu don't like it du yu Yap? said General Whitler. It's s'much as tu say t'owtside nater never cuts up any didoes, and t'ain't trew as fer as I ken jedge. No-sur-ee. Ther ain't no more New Testament in it than ther is in lots of other slings and slams aginst poor human critters. 'Cording tu my kind o' ciphering, folks ginrally speaking ain't much viler than they hef tu be, if they set owt thru a dumb wilderness, tu git ther insides and outsides decently lined and clothed, durn me if they air. What beats me is, thet we don't try harder tu make it easier fer each other, seein't the airth's so mighty hard tu cultervate and grub a livin' out on, and it's such hard sail- in' in gineral. That we don't quit warrin' 'ginst our enemies when we know if we'd unly let 'em alone, they'd die themselves. That we dont quit slandering and backbiting each other and such kind o' rinktums? The voice from the saloon wailed out again in a still higher key? And on?ly ma?n is vi?le. Yap began to whine again as though he were in great distress. Guess mebby she's never ben owt in a Lake Sperior storm, or she wouldn't think this yere planet wer a paradise e...