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And We Won’t Listen to Anything You Say
The preceeding playlist is playing in the background while I type this Mother West Wind’s Animal FriendsThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess There sat Danny Meadow Mouse laughing fit to kill himself, but not a trace of the old suit which was to have given him such a scare. Peter couldn’t believe his own eyes, for Continue reading
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The Word
Was sitting in a parking lot eating a Taco Bell 5-Layer Burrito with double meat and double sour cream and Fire Sauce (although I forgot to put that on) after having had a beer and a cider at my watering hole when I remembered that “Oh Shit” I need to get this typed and posted. Continue reading
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Feel It in My Blood
No, I do not celebrate 4/20 The Burgess Animal Book for ChildrenThornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess “Probably he has just found out that the only way to get anywhere on time is to start soon enough” “No such thing!” declared Peter indignantly. “You –“ “Never mind him, Peter,” interrupted Old Mother Nature soothingly. “What was Continue reading
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The North Comes to a Standstill
[Obligatory “How is April almost over already?” filler] The PioneersR. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne As before, the effect of the Indian stories on the Indians of his party was very marked and discouraging. With great difficulty Mackenzie overcame their ojbections to proceed, and even succeeded in persuading one of the Dog-rib Indians to accompany him Continue reading
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Bury Me Not
The PrairieJames Fenimore Cooper “There was a story of a nation of Welshers, that liv’d hereaway in the prairies, and how they came into the land afore the uneasy minded man, who first let in the Christians to rob the heathens of their inheritance, had ever dreamt that the sun set on a country as Continue reading
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Hurrah! Hurrah!
Continuing my habit of waiting until late at night to get my daily post in before it’s too late. Pathfinder, or The Inland SeaJames Fenimore Cooper “Rather than wreck my command on the Canada shore, I shall feel it a duty to take Jasper out of arrest.” “And make a haven in Frontenac. No, Sergeant; Continue reading
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Frozen Water Burial
The DeerslayerJames Fenimore Cooper As soon as this was done, the old sentinel changed her place to one more agreeable to herself, a certain proof that she had hitherto been exclusively on watch. Deerslayer now felt greatly at a loss how to proceed. He well knew that Chingachgook could never be persuaded to return to Continue reading
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My Compliments, Sir, Take Her And Get Out!
I think we’re done with Oz for a while The Last of the MohicansA Narrative of 1757James Fenimore Cooper Then raising his voice to its highest tone, he poured out a strain so powerful as to be heard even amid the din of that bloody field. More than one savage rushed toward them, thinking to Continue reading
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