 He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and...  Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z - Page 8012edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 pages
...their farms ; helped to make hay ; mended the fences ; took the horses to water ; drove the cows from pasture ; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little 30 empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favour in the eyes... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1909 - 480 pages
...of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and beeame wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 420 pages
...the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and he would often sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 450 pages
...the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and he would often sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...particularly the youngest ; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold,1 he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pages
...their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the 5 cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion 10 bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would . sit with a child on one knee,... | |
 | William Patten - 1910 - 438 pages
...of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...mothers, by petting the children, particularly the 23 youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit... | |
 | 1910 - 272 pages
...of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travelling gazette, carrying the whole budget... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - 424 pages
...of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dig20 nity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pages
...of the farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid...ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers 5 by petting the children, particularly the youngest ; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously... | |
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