 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1869 - 858 páginas
...curiosity here. I have eaten them in pigeon-pies hundreds of times, and have shot them by the thousands ! " I was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily...have half a dozen pairs sent to me for the Museum." " All right," said Adams, " I will send over to a friend in San Francisco, and you shall have them... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1871 - 868 páginas
..." I was ready to burst with laughter to see how re? Adams swallowed the bait, but maintaining the i rigid gravity, I replied : " Oh well, Mr. Adams, if they are really so com in California, you had probably better take them, you may write over and have half a dozen pair... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1873 - 884 páginas
...curiosity here. I have eaten them in pigeon-pies hundreds of times, and have shot them by the thousands ! " I was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily...have half a dozen pairs sent to me for the Museum." " All right," said Adams, " I will send over to a friend in San Francisco, and you shall have them... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1875 - 914 páginas
..." I was ready to burst with laughter to see how re? Adams swallowed the bait, but maintaining the i rigid gravity, I replied : " Oh well, Mr. Adams, if they are really so comi in California, you had probably better take them, you may write over and have half a dozen pairs... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1882 - 450 páginas
...Because they are so common there," said Adams, " I did not think they would be any curiosity here." I was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily...have half a dozen pairs sent to me for the Museum." Six or eight weeks after this incident, I was in the California Menagerie, and noticed that the "Golden... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1889 - 456 páginas
...most rigid gravity, I replied: "Oh wefl, Mr. Adams, if they are really so common in California, yon had probably better take them, and you may write over...have half a dozen pairs sent to me for the Museum." Six or eight weeks after this incident, I was in the California Menagerie, and noticed that Ote " Golden... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1891 - 660 páginas
...they are so common there," said Adams. " I did not think they would be any curiosity here." Barnum was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily...the bait, but, maintaining the most rigid gravity, he replied: " Oh ! well, Mr. Adams, if they are really so common in California, you had probably better... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1927 - 486 páginas
...curiosity here. I have eaten them in pigeon-pies hundreds of times, and have shot them by the thousands!" I was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily...have half a dozen pairs sent to me for the Museum." "All right," said Adams, "I will send over to a friend in San Francisco, and you shall have them here... | |
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I was ready to burst with laughter to see how readily Adams swallowed the bait, but maintaining the most rigid gravity, I replied : " Oh well, Mr. Adams, if they are really so common in California, you had probably better take them, and you may write... 