Further, the town, which drove a great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the school-door, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes to die for the general good in a single day ; and it was a great matter... Eliza Cook's journal - Página 67Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1854 - 406 páginas
...craft, and could draw them on the slate. Boats unloaded their guttering cargoes on the beach, where tho process of gutting afterwards went busily on; and...hundred pigs used sometimes to die for the general goo-1 in a single day ; and it was a great matter to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death... | |
| 1854 - 598 páginas
...without the boys seeing it. They knew the rig of every craft, and could draw them on the slate. Boats unloaded their glittering cargoes on the beach, where...killing-place for pigs not thirty yards from the school door, "iwhere from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes to die for the general good in a single day ;... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 páginas
...great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the school-door, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the general murmur within ; or to be told by some comrade, returned from his... | |
| 1855 - 396 páginas
...a great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the schooldoor, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the general murmur within; or to be told by some comrade, returned from his... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 páginas
...great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place riot thirty yards from the school-door, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the general murmur within ; or to be told by some comrade, returned from his... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 páginas
...great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the school-door, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the general murmur within ; or to be told by some comrade, returned from his... | |
| 1855 - 578 páginas
...a great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the schooldoor, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the general murmur within ; or to be told by gome comrade, returned from his... | |
| 1857 - 996 páginas
...a great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the schooldoor, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes...die for the general good in a single day ; and it wa«a great matter to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside rising high over the... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 páginas
...great trade in salted pork at the time, had a killing-place not thirty yards from the school-door, where from eighty to a hundred pigs used sometimes to die for the general good iu a single day; and it was a great matter to hear, at occasional intervals, the roar of death outside... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1874 - 550 páginas
...without the boys seeing it. They knew the rig of every craft, and could draw. them on their slates. Boats unloaded their glittering cargoes on the beach, where...busily on ; and to add to the bustle, there was a large killipg-place for pigs not thirty yards from the school door, " where from. eighty to a hundred pigs... | |
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