 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1863 - 752 pages
...facetiousness, " of a halter round your neck, ten gallons of liquid tar decanted on your pate, and the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance ? Dear Captain Ayres, let us advise you to fly without the wild-geese feathers." These warnings of... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - Pennsylvania - 1874 - 294 pages
...promises, in case of his persistence : " A halter around your neck, ten gallons of liquid tar scattered on your pate, with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance." In the meantime demands were made upon the commissioners to refuse the consignment. Equivocal responses... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 660 pages
...doing so, that he would have " a halter around his neck, ten gallons of liquid tar scattered over his pate, with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven his appearance." The same committee threatened the consignees ; and when, on Christmas day, the news... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - Curiosities and wonders - 1894 - 712 pages
...Moments, most heartily to curse those who have made you the Dupe of their Avarice and Ambition. AVhat think you Captain, of a Halter around your Neck —...Appearance ? Only think seriously of this — and ny to the Place from whence you came — fly without Hesitation — without the Formality of a Protest... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Pennsylvania - 1897 - 316 pages
...whatever, boarded the tea ship and handed Captain Ayers a rather warm letter. In it are these words : — " What think you, Captain, of a halter around your neck,...wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance ? " Fly to the place from whence you came. Fly without hesitation, without the formality of a protest,... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Pennsylvania - 1897 - 316 pages
...on your pate, with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance ? " Fly to the place from whence you came. Fly without...the formality of a protest, and above all, Captain Ayers, let us advise you to fly without the wild geese feathers." Monday morning, December 27, the... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1900 - 396 pages
...passionately fond of freedom, the birthright of Americans, and at all events are determined to enjoy it. ... "What think you, captain, of a halter around your...wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance? " Fly to the place from whence you came. Fly without hesitation, without the formality of a protest,... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - United States - 1901 - 438 pages
...them not to bring the Polly, a tea ship, up the river. To the captain of the vessel they wrote : " What think you Captain of a Halter around your Neck.... . . with the Feathers of a dozen wild Geese laid on that to enliven your Appearance ? " November 28, 1773, Captain Hall, of the ship Dartmonth from... | |
 | Ellen Chase - United States - 1910 - 474 pages
...Philadelphia, he might expect to have "a halter around his neck, ten gallons of liquid tar scattered over his pate, with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven his appearance." Nightly discussions were held in Boston. On November 2d Mr. Clark, who3 lived on Chapman... | |
 | Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Horace Mather Lippncott - Architecture, Colonial - 1912 - 496 pages
...advising him of the dire consequences that would attend any attempt to land the tea and asking him: What think you, Captain, of a Halter around your Neck...wild Geese laid over that to enliven your appearance? On December 7 this lurid admonition was reiterated on another handbill and signed by the " Committee... | |
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Captain, of a Halter around your Neck — ten Gallons of liquid Tar decanted on your Pate — with the Feathers of a dozen wild Geese laid over that to enliven your Appearance... 
