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had picturesque adventures on the frontier.
Two other men, Samuel A. Hammett (1816– 65) of Connecticut and John Ludlum McConnel (1826-62) of Illinois, travelled in the West and South-west and described their experiences in racy volumes.
Mrs. Partington, the American Mrs. Malaprop, was created by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814-90) of The Boston Fost and forms the central figure in at least three books, Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854), Partingtonian Patchwork (1873), and Ike aMrs. Partington (1854), Partingtonian Patchwork (1873), and Ike and his friends (1879). Her character and manner of expression may be seen in her chance remarks:
I am not so young as I was once, and I don't believe I shall ever be, if I live to the age of Samson, which, heaven knows as well as I do, I don't want to, for I wouldn't be a centurion or an octagon and survive my factories and become idiomatic by any means.
But then there is no knowing how a thing will turn out until it takes place, and we shall come to an end some day, though we may never li
Jack Downing, 151
Lewis, Mrs., 66
Lewis Carroll.
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Liberator, 189
Liberty Bell, by friends of freedom, the, 174
Library of American biography, the, 117
Library of Southern literature, the, 304
Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed, 118
Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor, The, 152
Life and Adventures, Songs, services and speeches of private Miles O'Reilly, 155
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, 155
Life and Writings of George Washington, The, 117
Life in the Iron Mills, 372, 392
Life of Bret Harte, 362 n.
Life of Gouverneur Morris, the, 117
Life of James Otis, 105
Life of Jesus the Christ, 217
Life of Kennedy, 58 n.
Life of Lowell, 250 n., 251 n.
Life of Patrick Henry, 105
Life of Thomas Jefferson, 110
Life of Washington, 105
Light of Stars, the, 35
Light'ood fire, the, 330
Lily, the, 175
Lily of the Valley, the, 175
Lincoln, Abraham,