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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want him for long.
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They whack whacked the white horse on the legs and he knee-ed himself up. The picador twisted the stirrups straight and pulled and hauled up into the saddle. The horse’s entrails hung d...
#1924 #InOurTime
There was a cat named Crazy Christian Who never lived long enough to screw He was gay hearted, young and handsome And all the secrets of life he knew He would always arrive on time for break…
If my Valentine you won’t be, I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree…
Outside, the snow was higher than the window. The sunlight came in through the window and shone on a map on the pine-board wall of the hut. The sun was high and the light came in over t...
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“How are you going yourself, Jack?” I a… “You seen this, Walcott?” he says. “Just in the gym.” “Well,” Jack says, “I’m going to need a… “He can’t hit you, Jack,” Soldier said.
Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand. He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding. Each time he felt the horn coming. Sometimes the bull only bumped him with his he...
Minarets stuck up in the rain out of Adrianople across the mud flats. The carts were jammed for thirty miles along the Karagatch road. Water buffalo and cattle were hauling carts throug...
Never trust a white man, Never kill a Jew, Never sign a contract, Never rent a pew. Don’t enlist in armies;
So now, Losing the three last night, Taking them back today, Dripping and dark the woods . . .
In the rain in the rain in the rain in t… Does it rain in Spain? Oh yes my dear on the contrary and there… The dancers dance in long white pants It isn’t right to yence your aunts
William Campbell had been in a pursuit race with a burlesque show ever since Pittsburgh. In a pursuit race, in bicycle racing, riders start at equal intervals to ride after one another....
The only man I ever loved Said good bye And went away He was killed in Picardy On a sunny day.
Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to...
On the four lira he had earned by spading the hotel garden he got quite drunk. He saw the young gentleman coming down the path and spoke to him mysteriously. The young gentleman said he...
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