Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some Junior, let...
...does not know where to find the Governor's Thanksgiving Proclamation, let him look over the Echo of last Wednesday...
...let practice all go to the devil...
...COME Muse, let's sing of mail-boxes." And why not of mail-boxes? Yet some may be inclined to advocate the claims of the lamp-posts as superior. They may assert that the box is but a mere dependent; for though we find many lamp-posts without mail-boxes, we rarely, if ever, come upon a mail-box not connected with a lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks...
...miles. Our one servant was a converted Indian. Instead of scalping after the ordinary manner of his tribe, he was content to appropriate to his own use small articles of value, and carry them to the nearest village in exchange for alcoholic fluid. He was a Christianized Indian. But let me proceed to other portions of my narrative...