 | Danvers Historical Society - 1917 - 328 pages
...not true, 'you lie like Sam Hyde.' I will relate some of his exploits. He said one day he went out gunning, when he saw sixty humming birds sitting on...powder. He fired and that one shot passed through the eyes of the sixty birds, killing them all, of course. Now this may be true for aught I know, but I... | |
 | Danvers Historical Society - 1917 - 142 pages
...not true, 'you lie like Sam Hyde.' I will relate some of his exploits. He said one day he went out gunning, when he saw sixty humming birds sitting on...powder. He fired and that one shot passed through the eyes of the sixty birds, killing them all, of course. Now this may be true for aught I know, but I... | |
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... Sam and Joe Hyde had the reputation of being great liars, but more especially Sam, and it is a saying unto this day, both in the United States and some say across the Atlantic when any one tells what is not true, 'you lie like Sam Hyde.' I will relate... 