Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen178W. Blackwood & Sons, 1905 |
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Página 503
... Johnny , who watched them with a curious eagerness . " Ay , " his father answered , " they're early off . They're easy spared from the kind of farms they have in the low country . " Johnny did not notice the farmer's contemptuous refer ...
... Johnny , who watched them with a curious eagerness . " Ay , " his father answered , " they're early off . They're easy spared from the kind of farms they have in the low country . " Johnny did not notice the farmer's contemptuous refer ...
Página 504
... Johnny dressed in his Sunday clothes , tying up a bundle in a red and green handkerchief . " Save us , Johnny , what are you doing with them on you ? " she said . The boy did not turn his face to her . " I'm for Scot- land , " he ...
... Johnny dressed in his Sunday clothes , tying up a bundle in a red and green handkerchief . " Save us , Johnny , what are you doing with them on you ? " she said . The boy did not turn his face to her . " I'm for Scot- land , " he ...
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... Johnny answered , with con- tempt . " A farm of land that the crows wouldn't pick on . Let me go where there's money to be earned and let him stay here . Each of us to be where he wants to be , -that's all I'm asking . " Annie turned ...
... Johnny answered , with con- tempt . " A farm of land that the crows wouldn't pick on . Let me go where there's money to be earned and let him stay here . Each of us to be where he wants to be , -that's all I'm asking . " Annie turned ...
Página 506
... Johnny that he wasn't back in the field ? " he asked . Then Annie told him the story of what had happened . Robert was deeply moved . " To think now he would do the like of that , " he said at last . " It's not for his leaving me I ...
... Johnny that he wasn't back in the field ? " he asked . Then Annie told him the story of what had happened . Robert was deeply moved . " To think now he would do the like of that , " he said at last . " It's not for his leaving me I ...
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... Johnny ' ll get better than potatoes where he's going . " " Ay , " said Robert , " and that's the truth . Why would he stay when the land won't afford a meal of meat to them that work it . What had he ever but slavery and hardship ? And ...
... Johnny ' ll get better than potatoes where he's going . " " Ay , " said Robert , " and that's the truth . Why would he stay when the land won't afford a meal of meat to them that work it . What had he ever but slavery and hardship ? And ...
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