 There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten...  The Illustrated Parlour Miscellany - Page 1291849 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder ? " There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice : " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead...tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too." " Where 's Brom Butcher ? " " Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he... | |
 | 1916 - 286 pages
...Where's Nicholas Ved'der ? " There was a silence for a little while, when an old man . replied, in a thin piping voice, " Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years 1 There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1917 - 386 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder? why, he is dead and...him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" "Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and...him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" "Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war ; some say he was killed at the... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man 10 replied in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! Why, he is dead and...that's rotten and gone, too." "Where's Brom Dutcher?" 15 "Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war. Some say he was killed at the storming... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man 10 replied in a thin, piping voice, " Nicholas Vedder ! Why, he is dead...him, but that's rotten and gone, too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" is "Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war. Some say he was killed at the... | |
 | Harriet Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs, Henry William Shryock - 1918 - 392 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedderf' There was silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice: "Nicholas Vedder! Why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There is a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that tells all about him." "Where's Brom Dutcher?" "Oh, he... | |
 | John Calvin Metcalf, Sarah Withers, Mrs. Hetty S. Browne - 1919 - 458 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, ' ' Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead...him, but that's rotten and gone, too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" "Oh, he went off to the army in the beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - 1919 - 280 pages
..."Where's Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice: "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and...him, but that's rotten and gone too." "Where's Brom Butcher?" some say he was killed at the storming of Stony Point — others say he was drowned in a... | |
 | George Earl Freeland - 1919 - 472 pages
...look for friends. Man — Well, who are they ? Name them. Rip — Where's Nicholas Vedder? Man — Nicholas Vedder ? Why he is dead and gone these eighteen years. There was an old wooden marker in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but it too has rotted and gone.... | |
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