The Mississippi Bubble

The Mississippi Bubble

The Mississippi Bubble - How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by...
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Author: Hough, Emerson,1857-1923
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The Mississippi Bubble

The Mississippi Bubble

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The Mississippi Bubble

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Hough, Emerson,1857-1923
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Mississippi Bubble - How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston

With sudden gesture he swept his hand among the gold coin that lay on the gaming table. He thrust into the mouth of the object before him a handful of louis d'or and English sovereigns. "There is your America," said he. "It runs over with gold. No man may tell its richness. Its beauty you can not imagine." "Faith," said Sir Arthur Pembroke, bending over the table with glass in eye, "if the ladies of that land have feet for this sort of shoon, methinks we might well emigrate. Take you the money of it. For me, I would see the dame could wear such shoe as this." One after another this company of young Englishmen, hard players, hard drinkers, gathered about the table and bent over to examine the little shoe. It was an Indian moccasin, cut after the fashion of the Abenakis, from the skin of the wild buck, fashioned large and full for the spread of the foot, covered deep with the stained quills of the porcupine, and dotted here and there with the precious beads which, to the maker, had more worth than any gold. A little flap came up for cover to the ankle, and a thong fell from its upper edge. It was the ancient foot-covering of the red race of America, made for the slight but effectual protection of the foot, while giving perfect freedom to the tread of the wearer. Light, dainty and graceful, its size was much less than that of the average woman's shoe of that time and place. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 14001
Author: Hough, Emerson
Release Date: Nov 10, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Hutt, Henry, 1875-1950

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