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Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a hare alive; Six, seven, eight, nine and ten, I let him go again. [1] The modern version is derived from three variations collected by Henry Bolton in the 1880s from America. [1]
The frontispiece and title page of Commerce of the Prairies A Map of the Indian Territory, published in Commerce of the Prairies. Gregg's book Commerce of the Prairies, published in two volumes in 1844, is an account of his time spent as a trader on the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1840 and includes commentary on the geography, botany, geology, and culture of New Mexico. [6]
Anaphora is the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. Examples: (1) Give me wine, give me women and give me song. (2) For everything there is a season . . . a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.—Bible, Ecclesiastes.
For example, one large glacial erratic in Germany measures 3 by 6 km (2 by 4 mi) and is 9 m (30 ft) thick. [10] Near Cooking Lake, Alberta , one of several large glacial erratics, which is called the Cooking Lake (Number 6) megablock , covers an area of at least 10 km 2 (4 sq mi), has a length of 4.0 km (2.5 mi) and is about 10 m (33 ft) thick.
"A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, [1] which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, [2] and "one of the best nature poems of that age". [3] It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.
Robert H. Birch with his Banditti outlaw partners, William Fox and John Long burying ill-gotten loot An illustration of Edward Bonney, from his book Banditti of the Prairies who as a bounty hunter and amateur detective in 1846, began a man-hunt doggedly pursued Robert Birch and his accomplices in the "Banditti of the Prairie", from Illinois to ...
Henry B. Bryant was born in Gloucestershire, England on April 5, 1824 and was the youngest son of six children. His father, John Bryant, was a farmer who brought the family to Ohio to a farm near a Native American settlement. Bryant's first education was during the winters in a log school house, and while at home he worked on the family farm ...
The North America Prairies is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and includes the prairies of the Great Plains .