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Take the description of Crockett when he "grated thunder with his teeth," or the woman who used to "brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

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