 | 1833 - 250 Seiten
...little touched with the snapping-turtle ; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streaJc of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey...too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson.' " While I was telling what I could do," said the colonel, " the fellow's eyes kept getting... | |
 | 1833 - 250 Seiten
...backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and...scratch down a honey locust; can whip my weight in wild cats,—and if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill, he may throw in a panther,—hug a bear... | |
 | Davy Crockett, James Strange French - 1834 - 220 Seiten
...backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and...scratch down a honey locust; can whip my weight in wild cats,—and if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill, he may throw in a panther,—hug a bear... | |
 | 1837 - 226 Seiten
...backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle ; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning•,...too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson.' " While I was telling what I could do," said the colonel, " the fellow's eyes kept getting... | |
 | Journal - 1844 - 280 Seiten
...half horse and half aligator ; a little touched with the snapping turtle ; can wade the Mississippi ; leap the Ohio ; ride upon a streak of lightning, and...slip without a scratch down a honey locust ; can whip his weight in wild cats ; hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson." CHAPTER... | |
 | Journal - 1844 - 296 Seiten
...aligator ; a little touched with the snapping^urtle ; can wade the Mississippi ; leap the Ohio ; iHpipon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust ; can whip his weight in wild cats ; hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson." CHAPTER... | |
 | 1846 - 860 Seiten
...leap the Ohoi; rifle upon a streak of lightning; and slip without я scratch down a honey-locust ; can whip my weight in wild cats — and if any gentleman pleases for a ten-dollar bill, he may throw in a panther; hug a bear too close for comfort; and eat any man opposed... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1874 - 380 Seiten
...half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honeylocust. I can whip my weight in wildcats, and, if any gentleman pleases, for a ten-dollar bill... | |
 | Augustus Lynch Mason - 1884 - 1056 Seiten
...half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust. I can whip my weight in wild cats, and if any gentleman pleases for a ten-dollar bill he can throw... | |
 | 1907 - 590 Seiten
...the Mississippi, slide down a honey locust and not get scratched. I can whip my weight in wild cats, hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson !" His last statement he would have been glad to modify, for in after years his views turned... | |
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I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle ; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust ;... 
