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The lost hunter: A tale of early times

John Turvill Adams · 1855

passage 51 of 257 · CHAPTER I. > CHAPTER VIII. (10/10)

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think he could not have too many delicacies, nor too much of them, offered to add to his already overfilled plate, "dere is 'bundance of cranberry saace for dis turkey."

According to custom, as soon as it began to be dark, the bonfires were lighted, and flashing from various eminences made luminous the night, while joyous shouts of boys answered each other across the rivers and ravines.

At nine o'clock the bell rang out its usual warning, and before the clock struck the next hour, the inhabitants of Hillsdale had courted the repose of their pillows.

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The lost hunter: A tale of early times · John Turvill Adams · 1855