 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 σελίδες
...situation the circumstances would permit. " I have been within the fort — mostly over the works ; stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected this morning."...bumpkin, he made it his ostensible errand to see a war cannon, and also the strange man that shaved other men, called a barber ; how the soldiers laughed... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 σελίδες
...mostly over the works ; stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected thig morning." i-'helps then proceeded to give an account of the manner he...bumpkin, he made it his ostensible errand to see a war cannon, and also the strange man that shaved other men, called a barber ; how the soldiers laughed... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1890 - 450 σελίδες
...situation the circumstances would permit. " I have been within the fort — mostly over the works ; stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected this morning."...bumpkin, he made it his ostensible errand to see a war cannon, and also the strange man that shaved other men, called a barber ; how the soldiers laughed... | |
 | William Max Reid - 1910 - 620 σελίδες
...situation the circumstances would permit. " I have been within the fort— mostly over the works — stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected this morning."...errand to see a war-cannon, and also the strange man who shaved other men, called a barber; how the soldiers laughed at his pretended ignorance, and the... | |
 | William Max Reid - 1910 - 606 σελίδες
...the circumstances would permit. " I have been within the fort — mostly over the works — stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected this morning." Phelps then proceeded to give an account of the Arnold and Allen 205 manner he had effected his discoveries at the fort, without exciting the suspicions... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - 2000 - 254 σελίδες
...could wish, gentlemen," replied Phelps. "I have been within the fort - mostly over the works, stayed there last night, and came away unsuspected this morning."...proceeded to give an account of the manner he had made his discoveries. In the assumed character of a country bumpkin, he made it his apparent errand... | |
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Phelps then proceeded to give an account of the manner he had effected his discoveries at the fort without exciting the suspicions of the garrison relative to the object of his visit ; how, in the assumed character of a green country bumpkin, he made... 