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But the fishing story has a basis of truth . I can't deny that : barely a basis : the rest all supplied by imagination . That shows how a very small common - place fact can grow into a big and pleasing story , just as a little colorless ...
But the fishing story has a basis of truth . I can't deny that : barely a basis : the rest all supplied by imagination . That shows how a very small common - place fact can grow into a big and pleasing story , just as a little colorless ...
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The story we understand to be from the pen of a young English lawyer : if so , we can only say , that if , in the ' pursuit of Law , ' he should not over . take it , he can fall back upon Literature , without a doubt of ultimate success ...
The story we understand to be from the pen of a young English lawyer : if so , we can only say , that if , in the ' pursuit of Law , ' he should not over . take it , he can fall back upon Literature , without a doubt of ultimate success ...
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However , Jim , in confidence , sometimes tells the story - he did to us — and always very justly attributed his success in life to · Sailor Jack's Ox . ' ' Philadelphia , October , 1860. ' GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS .
However , Jim , in confidence , sometimes tells the story - he did to us — and always very justly attributed his success in life to · Sailor Jack's Ox . ' ' Philadelphia , October , 1860. ' GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS .
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 56 The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2007 |
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