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  • Quite a terror to varmints; would think nothing of ... strand tramp: a jack russell is fairly "dogish", especially in a ring with rats.

    Hoboken 411 2009

  • Quite a terror to varmints; would think nothing of ... strand tramp: a jack russell is fairly "dogish", especially in a ring with rats.

    Hoboken 411 2009

  • What will become of those long groans and unsatisfied complaints of your slaves, for vexing them with insulting words, placing them in the power of dogish and abusive overseers, or under your stripling, misguided, hot-headed son, to drive and whip at pleasure, and for selling parts or whole families to Georgia?

    The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States 1849

  • What will become of those long groans and unsatisfied complaints of your slaves, for vexing them with insulting words, placing them in the power of dogish and abusive overseers, or under your stripling, misguided, hot-headed son, to drive and whip at pleasure, and for selling parts or whole families to Georgia?

    The Fugitive Blacksmith Pennington, James W C 1849

  • What will become of those long groans and unsatisfied complaints of your slaves, for vexing them with insulting words, placing them in the power of dogish and abusive overseers, or under your stripling, misguided, hot-headed son, to drive and whip at pleasure, and for selling parts or whole families to Georgia?

    The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington James W. C. Pennington 1839

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