001127_1655_000000 on his good nature next day at noon rodolphe appeared at charles's door with two saddle horses one had pink rosettes at his ears and deerskin side saddle rodolphe
001127_1655_000001 felt the pressure of his arm while the leaves rustled and the reeds whistled but when she saw herself in the glass she wondered at her face never had her eyes been so large so black of so profound a depth
001127_1655_000002 she gave herself up to him-the shades of night were falling
001127_1655_000003 it was the first time that emma had heard such words spoken to herself and her pride like one who reposes bathed in warmth expanded softly and fully at this glowing language
001127_1655_000004 well what the deuce do i care for that said charles making a pirouette health before everything you are wrong and how do you think i can ride when i haven't got a habit you must order one he answered the riding-habit decided her when the habit was ready charles wrote to monsieur boulanger that his wife was at his command and that
001127_1655_000005 but if i did not come he continued if i could not see you least i have gazed along on all surrounds you at night every night i arose i came hither i watched you house its glimmering in the moon the trees in the garden swaying before your window
001127_1655_000006 oh rodolphe said the young woman slowly leaning on his shoulder the cloth of her habit caught against the velvet of his coat she threw back her white neck swelling with a sigh and a faltering in tears with long shudder and hiding her face
001127_1655_000007 delighting at the idea that a second puberty had come to her so at last she was to know those joys of love that fever of happiness of which she had despaired she was entering upon marvels where all would be passion ecstasy delirium
001127_1655_000008 justin escaped from the chemist's to see her start and the chemist also came out he was giving monsieur boulanger a little good advice an accident happens so easily be careful your horses perhaps are mettlesome she heard a noise above her it was felicite drumming the windowpanes to amuse little berthe the child blew her a kiss
001127_1655_000009 azure infinity encompassed her the heights of sentiment sparkled under her thought and ordinary existence appeared only afar off down below in the shade through the interspaces of these heights
001127_1655_000010 her mother answered with a wave of her whip a pleasant ride cried monsieur homais prudence above all prudence and he flourished his newspaper as he saw them disappear
001127_1655_000011 then she recalled the heroines of the books that she had read and the lyric legion of these adulterous women began to sing in her memory with the voice of sisters that charmed her
001127_1655_000012 as soon as he felt the ground emma's horse set off at a gallop rodolphe galloped by her side now and then they exchanged a word her figure slightly bent her hand well up and her right arm stretched out she gave herself up to the cadence of the movement that rocked her in her saddle
001127_1655_000013 had put on high soft boots saying to himself that no doubt she had never seen anything like them in fact emma was charmed with his appearance as he stood on the landing in his great velvet coat and white corduroy breeches she was ready she was waiting for him
001127_1655_000014 she became herself as it were an actual part of these imaginings and realised the love dream of her youth as she saw herself in this type of amorous women whom she had so envied besides emma felt a satisfaction of revenge
001127_1655_000015 emma half closed her eyes to pick out her house and never had this poor village where she lived appeared so small from the height on which they were the whole valley seemed an immense pale lake sending off its vapour into the air
001127_1655_000016 the horizontal sun passing between the branches dazzle the eyes here and there around her the leaves or on the ground trembled luminous patches as if hummingbirds flying about had scattered their feathers silence was everywhere something sweet seemed to come forth from the trees
001127_1655_000017 the walls were of straw and the roof so low they had to stoop they were seated side by side on a bed of dry leaves from that day forth they wrote to one another regularly every evening emma placed her letter at the end of the garden by the river and
001127_1655_000018 the bottom of the hill rodolphe gave his horse its head they started together at a bound then at the top suddenly the horses stopped and her large blue veil fell about her
001127_1655_000019 the day following passed with a new sweetness they made vows to one another she told him of her sorrows rodolphe interrupted her with kisses and she looking at him through half closed eyes asked him to call her again by her name to say that he loved her they were in the forest as yesterday in the shed of some wooden shoe
001127_1655_000020 and the little lamp a gleam shining through windowpanes in the darkness ah you never knew that there so near you so far from you was a poor wretch
001127_1655_000021 sometimes through a rift in the clouds beneath a ray of sunshine gleamed from afar the roots of yonville with the gardens at the water's edge the yards the walls and the church steeple
001127_1655_000022 it was early in october there was fog over the land hazy clouds hovered on the horizon between the outlines of the hills others rent asunder floated up and disappeared
001127_1655_000023 just as they were entering the forest the sun shone out god protects us said rodolphe do you think so she said forward forward he continued he tchked with his tongue the two beasts set off at a trot
001127_1655_000024 rodolphe and emma thus went along the skirt of the wood she turned away from time to time to avoid his look and then she saw only the pine trunks in lines whose monotonous succession made her a little giddy the horses were panting the leather of the saddles creaked
001127_1655_000025 the chateau she entered it was if the doors at her approach had opened wide of their own accord a large straight staircase led up to the corridor emma raised the latch of a door and suddenly at the end of the room she saw a man sleeping it was rodolphe she uttered a cry
001127_1655_000026 clumps of trees here and there stood out like black rocks and the tall lines of the poplars that rose above the mist were like a beach stirred by the wind by the side on the turf between the pines a brown light shimmered in the warm atmosphere the earth
001127_1655_000027 this first piece of daring successful now every time charles went out early emma dressed quickly and slipped on tip down steps that led to the waterside but when the plank for the cows was taken up she had to go by the walls alongside of the river
001127_1655_000028 fissure of the wall rodolphe came to fetch it and put another there that she always found fault with as too short one morning when charles had gone out before day break she was seized with the fancy to see rodolphe at once she would go quickly to la huchette stay there an hour and be back again at yonville while everyone was still asleep
001127_1655_000029 this idea made her pant with desire and she soon found herself in the middle of the field walking with rapid steps without looking behind her day was just breaking emma from afar recognised her lover's house its two dove-tailed weathercocks stood out black against the pale dawn beyond the farmyard there was a detached building
001127_1655_000030 you here you here he repeated how did you manage to come ah your dress is damp i love you she answered throwing her arms about his neck
001127_1655_000031 long ferns by the roadside caught in emma's stirrup rodolphe leant forward and removed them as they rode along at other times to turn aside the branches he passed close to her and emma felt his knee brushing against her leg
001127_1655_000032 often in the thicket was heard the fluttering of wings or else the hoarse soft cry of the ravens flying off amidst the oaks they dismounted rodolphe fastened up the horses she walked on in front on the moss between the paths
001127_1655_000033 the sky was now blue the leaves no longer stirred there were spaces full of heather in flower and plots of violets alternated with the confused patches of the trees that were grey fawn or golden coloured according to the nature of their leaves
001127_1655_000034 then she examined the apartment opened the drawers of the tables combed her hair with his comb and looked at herself in his shaving-glass often she even put between teeth big pipe that lay on the table by the bed amongst lemons and pieces of sugar near a bottle of water
001127_1655_000035 the yellow curtains along the windows let a heavy whitish light enter softly emma felt about opening and closing her eyes while the drops of dew hanging from her hair formed as it were a topaz aureole around her face rodolphe laughing drew her to him and pressed her to his breast
001127_1655_000036 she stopped i am tired she said come try again he went on courage then some hundred paces farther on she again stopped and through her veil that fell sideways from her man's hat over her hips
001127_1655_000037 the bank was slippery in order not to fall she caught hold of the tufts of faded wallflowers then she went across ploughed fields in which she sank stumbling and clogging her thin shoes her scarf knotted round her head
001127_1655_000038 fluttered to the wind in the meadows she was afraid of the oxen she began to run she arrived out of breath with rosy cheeks and breathing out from the whole person a fresh perfume of sap of verdure of the open air at this hour rodolphe still slept it was like a spring morning coming into his room
001127_1655_000039 but her long habit got in her way although she held it up by the skirt and rodolphe walking behind her saw between the black cloth and the black shoe the fineness of her white stocking that seemed to him as if it were a part of her nakedness
001127_1655_000040 he did not begin by frightening her with compliments he was calm serious melancholy emma listened to him with bowed head and stirred the bits of wood on the ground with the tip of her foot but at the words
001127_1655_000041 at the end of a week he had gone off hunting after the hunting he had thought it was too late and then he reasoned thus if from the first day she loved me she must from impatience to see me again love me more let's go on with it
001127_1655_000042 aren't our destinies now one oh no she replied you know that well it is impossible she rose to go he seized her by the wrist she stopped then having gazed at him for a few moments with an amorous and humid look she said hurriedly
001127_1655_000043 she turned towards him with a sob oh you are good she said no i love you that is all you do not doubt that tell me one word only one word
001127_1655_000044 rodolphe looked round him biting his moustache they came to a larger space where the coppice had been cut they sat down at the trunk of a fallen tree and rodolphe began speaking to her of his love
001127_1655_000045 she felt her heart whose beating had begun again and the blood coursing through her flesh like a stream of milk then far away beyond the wood on the other hills she heard a vague prolonged cry a voice which lingered
001127_1655_000046 took them a good quarter of an hour to say goodbye then emma cried she would have wished never to leave rodolphe something stronger than herself forced her to him so much so that one day seeing her come unexpectedly he frowned as one put out
001127_1655_000047 and he knew that his calculation had been right when on entering the room he saw emma turn pale she was alone the day was drawing in the small muslin curtain along the windows deepened the twilight
001127_1655_000048 what is the matter with you she said are you ill tell me at last he declared with a serious air
001127_1655_000049 her face appeared in a bluish transparency as if she were floating under azure waves but where are we going he did not answer she was breathing irregularly
001127_1655_000050 six weeks passed rodolphe did not come again at last one evening he appeared the day after the show he had said to himself we mustn't go back too soon that would be a mistake
001127_1655_000051 he again became respectful caressing timid she gave him her arm they went back he said what was the matter with you why
001127_1655_000052 ah do not speak of it again where are the horses let us go back he made a gesture of anger and annoyance she repeated where are the horses where are the horses then smiling a strange smile his pupil fixed his teeth set
001127_1655_000053 why all the world calls you thus besides it is not your name it is the name of another he repeated of another and he hid his face in his hands
001127_1655_000054 why can you not guess he looked at her again but so hard that she lowered her head blushing he went on emma sir she said drawing back a little ah you see replied he in a melancholy
001127_1655_000055 the gilding of the barometer on which the rays of the sun fell shone in the looking glass between the meshes of the coral rodolphe remained standing and emma hardly answered his first conventional phrases
001127_1655_000056 i he said i've been busy i have been ill seriously she cried well said rodolphe sitting down at her side on a footstool no it was because i didn't want to come back
001127_1655_000057 he advanced with outstretched arms she recoiled trembling she stammered oh you frighten me you hurt me let me go if it must be he went on his face changing
001127_1655_000058 voice that i was right not to come back for this name this name that fills my whole soul and that escaped me you forbid me to use madame
001127_1655_000059 but i need you to live i must have your eyes your voice your thought my friend my sister my angel and he put out his arm round her waist she feebly tried to disengage herself he supported her thus as they walked along
001127_1655_000060 the traces of their horses side by side the same thickets the same stones to the grass nothing around them seemed changed and yet for her something had happened more stupendous than if the mountains had moved in their places rodolphe now and again bent forward and took her hand to kiss it
001127_1655_000061 yes i think of it constantly the memory of you drives me to despair ah forgive me i will leave you farewell i will go far away so far that you will never hear of me again and yet
001127_1655_000062 how kind it would be of you he went on rising if you would humour a whim of mine it was to go over her house he wanted to know it and madame bovary seeing no objection to this they both rose when charles came in
001127_1655_000063 and rodolphe imperceptibly glided from the footstool to the ground but a sound of wooden shoes was heard in the kitchen and he noticed the door of the room was not closed
001127_1655_000064 today i know not what force impelled me towards you for one does not struggle against heaven one cannot resist the smile of angels one is carried away by that which is beautiful charming adorable
001127_1655_000065 but they heard the two horses browsing on the leaves oh one moment said rodolphe do not let us go stay
001127_1655_000066 no i'll send him to you we'll come that will be more convenient for you ah very good i thank you and as soon as they were alone why don't you accept monsieur boulanger's kind offer she assumed a sulky air invented a thousand excuses and finally declared that perhaps it would look odd
001127_1655_000067 at dinner her husband thought she looked well but she pretended not to hear him when he inquired about her ride and she remained sitting there with her elbow at the side of her plate between the two lighted candles
001127_1655_000068 she was charming on horseback upright with her slender waist her knee bent on the mane of her horse her face somewhat flushed by the fresh air in the red of the evening on entering yonville she made her horse prance in the road people looked at her from the windows
001127_1655_000069 good morning doctor rodolphe said to him the doctor flattered at this unexpected title launched out into obsequious phrases of this the other took advantage to pull himself together a little
001127_1655_000070 emma he said what well i spent the afternoon at monsieur alexandre's he has an old cob still very fine only a little broken-kneed and that could be bought i am sure for a hundred crowns
001127_1655_000071 he added and thinking it might please you i have bespoken it bought it have i done right do tell me she nodded her head in assent then a quarter of an hour later
002221_13983_000000 in early december twenty sixteen dmitriev again broached the topic of meeting incoming administration officials with nader in january or february
002221_13983_000001 with the intent to influence delay or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding or to hinder delay or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer
002221_13983_000002 dozens of i r a employees were responsible for operating accounts and personas on different u s social media platforms the i r a referred to employees assigned to operate the social media accounts as specialists
002221_13983_000003 raffel josh white house communications adviser april twenty seventeen to february twenty eighteen racine alexei ukrainian associate of henry oknyansky who claimed to possess derogatory information regarding hillary clinton
002221_13983_000004 on november sixteen twenty sixteen catherine vargas an executive assistant to kushner received a request for a meeting with russian ambassador sergey kislyak
002221_13983_000005 three ambassador kislyak's meeting with jared kushner and michael flynn in trump tower following the election
002221_13983_000006 the security council which includes russia was scheduled to vote on the resolution the following day there was speculation in the media that the obama administration would not oppose the resolution
002221_13983_000007 rather a few days after the meeting gorkov's assistant texted kushner's assistant quote hi please inform your side that the information about the meeting had a very positive response unquote
002221_13983_000008 shortly thereafter flynn sent a text message to mcfarland summarizing his call with kislyak from the day before which she emailed to kushner bannon priebus and other transition team members
002221_13983_000009 although a prosecutor's internal report would not represent a formal public accusation akin to an indictment the possibility of the report's public disclosure and the absence of a neutral adjudicatory forum to review its findings
002221_13983_000010 an effort to influence a proceeding can qualify as an endeavor to obstruct justice even if the effort was subtle or circuitous and however cleverly or with whatever cloaking of purpose it was made
002221_13983_000011 the text message and email did not include sanctions as one of the topics discussed with kislyak flynn told the office that he did not document his discussion of sanctions because it could be perceived as getting in the way of the obama administration's foreign policy
002221_13983_000012 kremlin official residence of the president of the russian federation it is used colloquially to refer to the office of the president or the russian government
002221_13983_000013 dmitriev sent nader a list of publicly available quotes of dmitriev speaking positively about donald trump quote in case they were helpful unquote
002221_13983_000014 using these accounts and others the i r a provoked reactions from users and the media multiple i r a posted tweets gained popularity
002221_13983_000015 putin suggested that aven needed to take steps to protect himself and alfa-bank aven also testified that putin spoke of the difficulty faced by the russian government in getting in touch with the incoming trump administration
002221_13983_000016 sent a message to a u s tea party activist writing that quote mr trump posted about our event in miami this is great unquote
002221_13983_000017 a united nations vote on israeli settlements on december twenty-one twenty sixteen egypt submitted a resolution to the united nations security council calling on israel to cease settlement activities in palestinian territory
002221_13983_000018 over the following weeks the two assistants exchanged a handful of additional cordial texts on february eight twenty seventeen gorkov's assistant texted kushner's assistant berkowitz to try to set up another meeting and followed up by text at least twice in the days that followed
002221_13983_000019 prince also believed he provided bannon with dmitriev's contact information according to prince bannon instructed prince not to follow up with dmitriev and prince had the impression that the issue was not a priority for bannon prince related that bannon did not appear angry just relatively uninterested
002221_13983_000020 foresman subsequently traveled to moscow inquired of a source he believed to be close to putin and heard back from that source that ushakov would be the official channel for the incoming u s national security advisor
002221_13983_000021 malloch theodore ted chief executive officer of global fiduciary governance and the ted roosevelt group he was a london based associate of jerome corsey
002221_13983_000022 using fictitious u s personas ira employees operated social media accounts and group pages designed to attract u s audiences
002221_13983_000023 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the united states and violate u s laws as well as making false statements to the f b i
002221_13983_000024 obstruction of justice law generally requires a nexus or connection to an official proceeding in section fifteen oh three the nexus must be to pending judicial or grand jury proceedings
002221_13983_000025 dmitriev reported directly to putin and frequently referred to putin as his boss r d i f has co-invested in various projects with u a e sovereign wealth funds
002221_13983_000026 director of investor relations at russian state-owned oil company rosneft and associate of carter page berkowitz avi assistant to jared kushner
002221_13983_000027 foresman acknowledged that flynn had not asked him to undertake that inquiry in russia but told the office that he nonetheless felt obligated to report the information back to flynn and that he worked to get a face-to-face meeting with flynn in january twenty seventeen so that he could do so
002221_13983_000028 ultimately while we believed that we had the authority and legal justification to issue a grand jury subpoena to obtain the president's testimony
002221_13983_000029 during the course of our discussions the president did agree to answer written questions on certain russia related topics and he provided us with answers
002221_13983_000030 prince booked a ticket to the seychelles on january seven twenty seventeen the following day nader wrote to dmitriev that he had a pleasant surprise for him
002221_13983_000031 the u s sanctions against russia flynn was also the transition team member who spoke with the russian government when the obama administration imposed sanctions and other measures against russia
002221_13983_000032 the investigation did not identify evidence of flynn or kushner meeting with ushakov after being given his name in the meantime although he had already formed the impression that kislyak was not necessarily the right point of contact
002221_13983_000033 three u s operations through facebook many ira operations used facebook accounts created and operated by its specialists
002221_13983_000034 and reminded the facebook specialist quote it is imperative to intensify criticizing hillary clinton unquote i r a employees also acknowledged that their work focused on influencing the presidential election redactions harm to ongoing matter
002221_13983_000035 when dmitriev and gerson met they principally discussed potential joint ventures between gerson's hedge fund and r d i f dmitriev was interested in improved economic cooperation between the united states and russia
002221_13983_000036 violated u s law through these operations principally by undermining through deceptive acts the work of federal agencies charged with regulating foreign influence in u s elections
002221_13983_000037 as explained further in volume one section five a infra the office concluded and a grand jury has alleged that prigozhin his companies and i r a employees
002221_13983_000038 we also assessed that based on the significant body of evidence we had already obtained of the president's actions and his public and private statements describing or explaining those actions
002221_13983_000039 email correspondence suggests that the meeting ultimately went forward but flynn has no recollection of it or of the earlier december meeting
002221_13983_000040 these groups and accounts which addressed divisive u s political and social issues falsely claimed to be controlled by u s activists over time these social media accounts became a means to reach large u s audiences
002221_13983_000041 and asked gerson who he should meet with in the incoming administration who would be helpful toward this goal gerson replied that he would try to figure out the best way to arrange appropriate introductions
002221_13983_000042 he did not similarly agree to provide written answers to questions on obstruction topics or questions on events during the transition
002221_13983_000043 under both statutes the government must demonstrate a relationship in time causation or logic between the obstructive act and the proceeding or inquiry to be obstructed
002221_13983_000044 the attendance at rallies varied some rallies appear to have drawn few if any participants while others drew hundreds the reach and success of these rallies was closely monitored
002221_13983_000045 roscongress foundation russian entity that organized the saint petersburg international economic forum rosneft russian state-owned oil and energy company
002221_13983_000046 after the event the i r a posted videos and photographs of the event to the i r a's social media accounts the office identified dozens of u s rallies organized by the i r a
002221_13983_000047 with them referring to members of the incoming administration prince opened the attachment at trump tower within an hour of receiving them prince stated that while he was at trump tower that day he spoke with kellyanne conway wilbur ross steve mnuchin
002221_13983_000048 we chose not to do so we made this decision in view of the substantial delay that such an investigative step would likely produce at a late stage in our investigation
002221_13983_000049 at the time simes was lobbying the trump transition team on burt's behalf to appoint burt u s ambassador to russia burt contracted signs by telephone
002221_13983_000050 after the election gerson assisted the transition by arranging meetings for transition officials with former u k prime minister tony blair and a u a e delegation led by crown prince mohammad
002221_13983_000051 the nexus can include a connection to a pending federal agency proceeding or a congressional inquiry or investigation
002221_13983_000052 i r a employees travelled to the united states in mid twenty fourteen on an intelligence gathering mission to obtain information and photographs for use in their social media posts
002221_13983_000053 gerson richard rick new york hedge fund manager and associate of jared kushner during the transition period he worked with kirill dmitriev on a proposal for reconciliation between the united states and russia
002221_13983_000054 but noted that confidentiality would be required because of the sensitivity of holding such meetings before the new administration took power and before cabinet nominees had been confirmed by the senate
002221_13983_000055 and asked if he could arrange a meeting with kushner to discuss setting up a high-level communications channel between putin and the incoming administration simes told the office that he declined and stated to burt that setting up such a channel was not a good idea
002221_13983_000056 bossert thomas tom former homeland security advisor to the president who also served as a senior official on the presidential transition team
002221_13983_000057 spicer sean white house press secretary and communications director january twenty seventeen to july twenty seventeen stone roger advisor to the trump campaign redaction harm to ongoing matter
002221_13983_000058 the i r a conducted social media operations targeted at large u s audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the u s political system these operations constituted active measures активные мероприятия
002221_13983_000059 based on what simes had read in the media he stated that he already had concerns that trump's business connections could be exploited by russia and simes said that he did not want c n i to have any involvement or apparent involvement in facilitating any connection
002221_13983_000060 annual event held in russia and attended by prominent russian politicians and businessmen tatneft russian energy company
002221_13983_000061 foresman robert bob investment banker who sought meetings with the trump campaign in spring twenty sixteen to discuss russian foreign policy and after the election met with michael flynn
002221_13983_000062 during the rollout of the sanctions president-elect trump and multiple transition team senior officials including mcfarland steve bannon and reince priebus were staying at the mara lago club in palm beach florida
002221_13983_000063 a term that typically refers to operations conducted by russian security services aimed at influencing the course of international affairs the i r a and its employees began operations targeting the united states as early as twenty fourteen
002221_13983_000064 and others while waiting to see bannon south side location data for prince's mobile phone indicates that prince remained at trump tower for approximately three hours
002221_13983_000065 the earliest evidence of a rally was a confederate rally in november twenty fifteen the i r a continued to organize rallies even after the twenty sixteen u s presidential election
002221_13983_000066 russian international affairs council russia based nonprofit established by russian government decree it is associated with the ministry of foreign affairs and its members include ivan timofeev dmitry peskov and petr aven
002221_13983_000067 gates richard rick the third deputy campaign manager for trump campaign trump inaugural committee deputy chairman and longtime employee of paul manafort
002221_13983_000068 gerson said he would ask kushner and michael flynn who the key person or people were on the topics of reconciliation with russia joint security concerns and economic matters
002221_13983_000069 namely that he had arranged for dmitriev to meet a special guest from the new team referring to prince nader asked dmitriev if he could come to the seychelles for the meeting on january twelfth twenty seventeen and dmitriev agreed
002221_13983_000070 director of programs at the russian international affairs council and program director of the valdai discussion club who communicated in twenty sixteen with george papadopoulos attempting to arrange a meeting between the russian government and the trump campaign
002221_13983_000071 boyarkin viktor employee of russian oligarch oleg deripaska boyd charles chairman of the board of directors at the center for the national interest a u s based think tank with operations in and connections to russia
002221_13983_000072 there is an interest and an understanding for the need to establish such a channel but the individual emphasized that at this moment with so much intense interest in the congress and the media over the question of cyber hacking and who ordered what
002221_13983_000073 the florida rallies drew the attention of the trump campaign which posted about the miami rally on candidate trump's facebook account as discussed below
002221_13983_000074 millian sergei founder of the russian american chamber of commerce who met with george papadopoulos during the campaign mnuchin steven secretary of the treasury
002221_13983_000075 dmitry prime minister of russia melnik yuriy spokesperson for the russian embassy in washington d c who connected with george papadopoulos on social media
002221_13983_000076 although a proceeding need not already be in progress to trigger liability under section fifteen twelve c a nexus to a contemplated proceeding still must be shown
002221_13983_000077 according to burt the very influential person referenced in his email was simes and the reference to a trusted third party was a fabrication as no such third party existed
002221_13983_000078 on december twenty-eighth twenty sixteen the media began reporting that retaliatory measures from the obama administration against russia were forthcoming when asked about imposing sanctions on russia for its alleged interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election
002221_13983_000079 quote for purposes of section fifteen twelve an official proceeding need not be pending or about to be instituted at the time of the offense end quote eighteen u s c section fifteen twelve f one
002221_13983_000080 mifsud joseph maltese national and former london based professor who immediately after returning from moscow in april twenty sixteen told george papadopoulos that the russians had dirt in the form of thousands of clinton emails
002221_13983_000081 in a note that precedes the president's written responses in assessing the evidence we obtained we relied on common principles that apply in any investigation
002221_13983_000082 nader considered dmitriev to be putin's interlocutor in the gulf region and would relay dmitriev's views directly to crown prince mohammed
002221_13983_000083 nader wrote to dmitriev quote this guy prince is designated by steve bannon to meet you i know him and he is very very well connected and trusted by the new team his sister is now a minister of education unquote
002221_13983_000084 we had sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and to make certain assessments without the president's testimony the office's decision making process on this issue is described in more detail in appendix c infra
002221_13983_000085 the three men also discussed u s policy toward syria and kislyak floated the idea of having russian generals brief the transition team on the topic using a secure communications line
002221_13983_000086 according to nader dmitriev said that his and the government of russia's preference was for candidate trump to win and asked nader to assist him in meeting members of the trump campaign redaction grand jury
002221_13983_000087 for example on may thirty one twenty sixteen the operational account matt skiber began to privately message dozens of pro trump facebook groups asking them to help plan a quote pro trump rally near trump tower unquote
002221_13983_000088 quote guilty knowledge can rarely be established by direct evidence therefore mens rea elements such as knowledge or intent
002221_13983_000089 putin wanted dmitriev to be in charge of both the financial and the political relationship between russia and the gulf states in part because dmitriev had been educated in the west and spoke english fluently
002221_13983_000090 kushner also asked kislyak to identify the best person whether kislyak or someone else with whom to direct future discussions someone who had contact with putin and the ability to speak for him
002221_13983_000091 many of the same ira employees who oversaw the ira's social media accounts also conducted the day-to-day recruiting for political rallies inside the united states reduction harm to ongoing matter
002221_13983_000092 corrupt persuasion can also be shown in certain circumstances when a person with an improper motive urges a witness not to cooperate with law enforcement
002556_2080_000000 i never said you will or you won't just waited till he got outside and thumbed my nose at him high spirited that's me all over an english officer came over the other day an told us all about the war he didn't quite finish it cause he only had three quarters of an hour
002556_2080_000001 me an hims goin down next week to put in a stock of tonics its awful hard to write letters mabel somebody's always fallin over your feet or draggin something wet over the paper if you've got a cot near the door like mine is
002556_2080_000002 they're always inspecting us i feel like a piece of prize beef they never inspect a man all the way through guess the inspectors get paid by the day durin' the duration of the inspection
002556_2080_000003 i was scoutin' round for wood today and burned up those military hairbrushes your mother gave me when we came away i told her they'd come in mighty handy someday they say a fellow tried to take a shower the other day before he could get out it froze round him
002556_2080_000004 dear mable this is the last time i will ever take my pen in hand for you all is over among us i felt it coming for some time mable today among some letters that i got from girls was one from a girl what knows you well
002556_2080_000005 day after tomorrow's inspection they do it every saturday that's another thing i'm thankful for there's only one saturday a week we pull everything out and pile it on our cots then the captain and the sergeant comes in
002556_2080_000006 the other day he had some medicine for a cold it says on the bottle that it was seventeen percent alcohol he drank the whole thing right down so as nobody couldn't get hold of it it made him awful sick but he says that's because he is used to it for such a long time
002556_2080_000007 they give you candy that comes by the bale then they come round an watch you eat it i bet if you walked into there place an watched them eat theyd raise an awful holler they make speeches to you that youd get your money back without askin up north they give you free movies thats so old they look as if they was taken in the rain
002556_2080_000008 one day it's our teeth and another our heart and another our lungs the other day we was all lined up in the company street and the sergeant says inspection arms i lays down my gun and rolls up my sleeves just to show you how technical the army is he didn't want to see my arms at all but my gun how's a fellow gonna tell mable
002556_2080_000009 it seems like feedin the hippo at the zoo mable dont matter so much as long as theres lots of it im goin into town tonite with a bunch to eat a swell dinner on a china plate all but angus mackenzie he eats all his dinners on me
002556_2080_000010 the government gives us our wood but i guess that the man who decided how much it was going to give us had an office in the sandwich islands i says the other day that if they'd dip our allowance in fusfrus we'd at least have matches eh mable i'm the same old bill mable cracking jokes and keeping everybody laughing when things is blackest
002556_2080_000011 he's a human being even if he is a captain mable so every time i saw him i used to stop him and talk to him democratic that's me all over mable smith he says if they was all like you round here war would be hell no joke by which he meant that we would make it hot for the boshes
002556_2080_000012 in the meantime i been doin some guard duty seems like i been doin it every night but i know what they're up against and i don't say nothin guard duty is something like extemporaneous speaking
002556_2080_000013 every time its the same he says thats very dirty smith wheres your other shirt an i say i aint got none sir an he says sargent make a note of that an then the sargent rites somethin in a little book next time just the same the captin says wheres my shirt an the sargent makes a note
002556_2080_000014 the captain appreciates me though the other day he watched me work awhile and then he says smith he calls me smith now we've got very friendly since i've been nice to him i noticed none of the other fellows had much to say to him i kind of felt sorry for him
002556_2080_000015 he said all right he'd make me a food specialist said i'd have to go into it pretty deep i been into it up to my elbows in the kitchen ever since never trust seargents least of all top seargents
002556_2080_000016 he didn't eat nothin for three meals and then he looked at himseif with the mirror turned the other way it's like one of those coney island places where a fello can go in and laff at himself for a dime next time send me one that will break
002556_2080_000017 you might read this part to your mother i don't want nothin' from her either write as soon an plain mable cause i don't get much chance to study yours till the south is warm bill your mother's present cost me three dollars and seventy-seven cents
002556_2080_000018 you got to know everything your goin to say before you start its very tecknickle for instance you walk a post but there aint no post an you mount guard but you dont really mount nothin
002556_2080_000019 they was quite a few things i didn't know even at that he said that the heavy artillery was commanded by the c c o d a and the light artillery by the c o a
002556_2080_000020 the other fellow has big spoons i guess they are old lacrosse players a big wad of food hits your plate splash and knocks it squeegee the other fellow hits the plate and knocks it the other way when you get it all its running out of one dish up your sleeve and out of the other back into the food pans
002556_2080_000021 i know you'll be glad to know my feet ain't hurtin so much remember me to the hired girl and your mother yours through the winter bill
002556_2080_000022 most of the stuff ain't been used much the picture has some mud on it cause i had to keep it in the bottom of my barrack bag an my shoes came next the socks i can't send back cause i sold them to joe glucos and you wouldn't want them now
002556_2080_000023 and being disappointed as who wouldn't be i says oh hell i thought it was a relief an he objected to that the relief mabel but whats the use you wouldn't understand it
002556_2080_000024 but it seems that you got to keep on drawing it all the time then later i hear footsteps i was expecting the relief so i was right on the job and a man come up and i poked my pistol right in his face and says halt who goes there and he says officer of the day
002556_2080_000025 and then a bunch of fellows went away to learn to be officers that kind of struck my fancy it being about the only thing i hadn't done around here i went to the captain and told him i thought i'd like to go to he said i could go and then he added something he said a company was built up something like a man there was the brain which was the officers
002556_2080_000026 she says she went up to your house the other night an he was sitting in your lap sticking his tongue out at my picture on the mantlepiece after that mable there's nothin to say so i repeat all is over among us i'm returning today by parcels post the red sweater and the gloves that has no fingers and the socks that you wear over your head and your picture
002556_2080_000027 we celebrated christmas by sleepin till a quarter to seven instead of hap past six only they forgot to tell the fello what blows the horn an he blew it at hap past six anyway imagine if anybody home had told me i could sleep till a quarter of seven christmas morning i guess you know what id a told him eh mable
002556_2080_000028 you ought to see us eat breakfast mable we got so many overcoats and things on that a fellow don't get no elbow action some fellows eats with their wool gloves that ain't a good scheme though it makes things taste like eatin' peaches with their skins on
002556_2080_000029 i says i dont wait till the sheep is stole i drew it this afternoon from the supply sargent an i showed it to him tucked inside my shirt where noone could get it away from me without some tussel you bet mable
002556_2080_000030 i guess they was right cause i read it to the fellows in the tent and it seemed to depress them awful i'm writing it to you it's about the war you'll probably notice that yourself if you read it careful here it is
002556_2080_000031 there's a fellow in town what says he'll send flowers anywhere you want by telegraph i was gonna send you some for christmas morning then i figured it was a silly idea in the first place they'd get smashed on the way and then you can't get enough flowers in one of them little envelopes to make one good smell
002556_2080_000032 army food always runs cooks love loose grub they're awful stupid if there's anything solid you get it in the pan with the rim on it then they pour the soup on your cover when you sit down half of what you got left spills out on the table it isn't so bad now cause everything freezes about as soon as it hits
002556_2080_000033 kitchen police don't explain what i do very well i don't walk a beat or carry a club or arrest nobody or nothin' i just well i wish that hired girl of yours could come down and do kitchen police for a couple of days she wouldn't be quittin' as regular as she does
002556_2080_000034 she told me all about this fellow broggins she says you take him around with you everywhere that's the kind of a fellow i thought he was mable but i'm surprised at you she says your awful fond of him and he's so cute i ain't cute an ain't never pretended to be a man's man that's me all over mable
002556_2080_000035 chair mable that's french i didn't expect you to know what it means though the y m c a are learnin' me french now i only had three lessons so far but i can talk it pretty good
002556_2080_000036 and you turn out the guard but you don't really turn them out they come out themselves just the other night i was walking along thinking of you mable and my feet which was hurting it made me awful lonesome an officer come up and he says why don't you draw your pistol when you here someone coming
002556_2080_000037 and then some was the muscle and some was the bone he said i seem to be pretty well fitted for my part by nature so as he wouldn't change me i've always been strong ever since i was a kid mable i've wrote a poem i sent it to the division paper they wouldn't print it cause they said it was so real that it might depress the men
002556_2080_000038 i'm awful sick of eating out of a tin frying pan when you put the food in it it folds up like a jackknife going the wrong way it takes months to make a good mess kit eater we get our mess from some fellows what stands behind a counter one of them divides the coffee he does it by putting half in your cup and half on your thumb
002556_2080_000039 went to a dance the other night and met some swell girls i made them all laugh i says i guess i got the instincts of a soldier all right the minute i smell powder i'm right on my toes i haven't been very well lately i guess i'll cut out eating at meals it spoils my appetite for the rest of the day
002556_2080_000040 i went up for thirds at breakfast the other morning as usual an the cook said you seem to like coffee right away without stoppin to think or nothin i says back yes thats the reason im willin to drink so much hot water to get some eh mable
002556_2080_000041 if it keeps on like this there won't be nobody to do the actual fighting but me mable it's too much responsibility for one man suppose i was to get sick or something
002556_2080_000042 the stuff that you sent me to eat i haven't kept i guess you wouldn't want that anyway mable the stuff that your mother sent me i'm going to keep she wasn't my girl and she didnt have to send all that stuff if she didn't want to
002556_2080_000043 the christmas holidays is over i spent mine doing kitchen police the only thing what pealed for me christmas morning was potatoes and the only thing what rung out was dish cloths but i guess you ain't familiar enough with the poets to get that mable it shows that i can be funny an bright though even under adversary conditions
002556_2080_000044 i've been feeling awful sorry for you mable what with missing me and your fathers liver gone back on him again things must have been awful lonesome for you it isn't as if you was a girl what had a lot of fellows hanging round all the time not that you couldn't have em mable but you don't an there's no use making no bones about it
002556_2080_000045 i guess there's something in the drill regulations which makes him say that cause i ain't got no other shirt yet well mable i'm getting hungry again now guess i'll have to stop and buy a couple of pies we don't get nothing to eat for an hour yet yours till the ice cracks in the pale bill
002556_2080_000046 i got some good news for you mable the cook says we only drew ten days supply of food last time he says he guesses when we eat that up well go to france he's an awful smart fellow the cook he's got a bet on that if the allies don't buck up and win the germans is coming out ahead max glucos a fellow in the tent is referee
002556_2080_000047 i like to forgot to thank you for the christmas presents you and your mother sent me i'm glad you minded what i said about not wantin' nothin' although i'd sent you two presents what was worth more than i could afford four dollars and eighty-seven cents as i said to joe loomis who was in the tent when your presents came
002556_2080_000048 here the thunder of the guns smashing down the german huns and the sticky pools of gory blood soaking up the oozy sod the rushing roaring shrieking boom of bullets crashing through the gloom
002556_2080_000049 a poilus mable is a french peasant girl and they say that they are very belle now don't mispronounce things and get sore till you know you pronounce that like bell and push button it means good lookers
002556_2080_000050 biff and from their hellish lair the shrieks of germans rent the air bloody limbs lie on the ground bits of hun go flying round bang and through the cannons roar is plainly heard the splashing gore
002556_2080_000051 i can see faults where others can't underneath a pleasant exterior i am made of sterner stuff as the poets say i have gave up frivolity with the exception of going into town once in a while to take a bath i'm strong for this sanity stuff under any conditions
002556_2080_000052 and i aint agoin to hold it up against you that i been savin in the bank for most two years sos to have a little somethin towards that house with the green blinds an that i got somethin like eighty-seven dollars twenty-two cents in the bank if you can believe what that eagle beak in the cage rites in your book
002556_2080_000053 it ain't what the thing cost or whether you could ever use it for anything it's the thought sentiment before pleasure that's me all over mabel thanks for the red sweater mabel we ain't allowed to use them but you don't want to feel bad about that because i got lots of others that didn't need it anyway
002556_2080_000054 when we get voila as the french say for over there it'll come handy to be able to sit down and have a dosey dos with them poilus that means chew the rag in english
002556_2080_000055 i didn't say nothin' cause after all she was payin' for the dinner later on though she says i think it's fine you boys has made so many friends among the officers cause i think they're such nice men can you beat it mable and when she went home she sent max an officer's hat cord cause she said she didn't think it would fade as quick as that old blue thing he was wearin'
002556_2080_000056 the fellow that invented our eating tables must have been a supply sargent once all the seats is nailed to the table when you get a spoonful of loose food up some fellow puts his foot in your lap and leaves a couple of pounds of mud there i just brush it off though on the next fellow never complain that's me all over
002556_2080_000057 all wasted you might say when you think of the fun i might have had with it in the last two years those things we'll just forget you seem to have already and that seasons pass i got for you for the happy hour so you could keep in touch with things while i was away keep that and take broggins
002556_2080_000058 its gettin awful cold no wonder this is a healthy place all the germs is froze i guess their idea of the hardenin proces is to freeze a fello stiff the captin said the other day we was gettin in tents of trainin thats all right but id kind of like to see those steam heated barraks
002556_2080_000059 nothin if not right thats me all over mable i had dinner in town with max glocoses mother hes a fello in our tent she's a nice enough old lady but she ain't military mable we was walking down the street before dinner and saluting officers so fast it looked like we was scratching our foreheads and every time we saluted she bowed
002556_2080_000060 there's some mistake up north mable about the way we're built mable it's kind of depressing to think that you could forget about us so quick everyone's getting sweaters without sleeves and gloves without fingers we still got everything we started with mable why not socks without feet and pants without legs
002556_2080_000061 mon croquette that's not the kind with the evening dress toothpick in the top mable a croquette is a french society woman study these letters of mine and see how i use the words you ought to be able to pick up enough french to understand me talking it when i come home
002556_2080_000062 and there's a special n c o who has nothin to do but look after the s a a just imagine mable i wish i'd studied chemistry more when i was in school it would make things a lot easier for me now
002556_2080_000063 and when you get goin' finally at about the fourth try some sergeant always comes in with a list and makes you check up something sometimes i go over to the y m c a mable but as soon as you get writin' a bald headed fellow jumps up and says now fellows we'll all sing all the fellows what's writin' looks up an says aw one thing and another
002556_2080_000064 but this cannot go on for long cause uncle sam is comin strong and when we charge the german line we'll chuck the damn thing in the rhine and blood and slaughter rape and gore and bel le french will rain no more
002556_2080_000065 like that fellow in the bible who turned into a pillow of salt they had to break the whole thing off in the pipe with him inside it an stand it in front of the stove when it melted he finished his shower and said he felt fine
002556_2080_000066 as for all the things i have give you mable keep 'em i don't want 'em no more i ain't even gonna mention all the money i've spent on you for movies and sodas and the lord knows what not i ain't the kind of  fellow to throw that up to a fellow or even mention it in no ways i kept track of it though in a little book it costed twenty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents and some odd cents
002556_2080_000067 they're crazy about us fellows they call us sammies they named one of their rivers for us you have heard of the battle of the sammy but i don't suppose you have they have been learning us a lot about gas at attacks lately they're not the kind your father has
002556_2080_000068 you know how quick i am at picking up any kind of trick stuff like that the only difference between french and english is that they're pretty near alike but the french don't pronounce their words right when i use french words i'll underline them that'll give you some idea of the language
002556_2080_000069 i hope my presents arrived all right i guess you'll like 'em you ought to at the price as i says to the girl what sold 'em when she says she didn't have nothin' cheaper nothin's too good for where they're goin' isn't that typical of me mable
002556_2080_000070 im makin a study of war im goin to tell you a sekrut im workin on a plan to end the war i got thinkin as i will an it struck me that no one had gone into this at all there all figurin how to go on with it but none of em how to quit it
002556_2080_000071 the gas fellow said the other day that gas was perfectly safe cause you could always tell when it was comin' you could hear it escape or see it or smell it the only trouble was he said that when the gas started the machine guns made so much noise you couldn't hear it and it always came at night sos you couldn't see it and when you smelled it it was most to late to bother anyhow
002556_2080_000072 i always heard how the french was cigarette fiends i guess they got it so bad they put in the holders so they could smoke during a gas attack i'm going to put on my mask an have my picture took en cabinet that's nothing to do with furniture mable it's the french for what it's going to look like when it's done
002556_2080_000073 i started this letter almost a week ago i just found it in my baking can they call it a baking can but it's too small to bake nothing i keep my soap in it i got some news for you the regiment is to be dismantled
002556_2080_000074 we're eating as fast as we can perhaps we can eat it all in less than ten days so maybe we'll be gone mable before i write you from here again there's a french sergeant comes around once in a while and says the war is gonna be over quick he ought to know cause he's been over there and seen the whole thing he smokes cigarettes something awful and don't say much
002556_2080_000075 a fellow told me that was the only way to talk it good i don't understand it very well so far the only way i know it's french is by the pictures someday i'm gonna find out what the name is then i'm gonna get the english of it those are some pictures ain't i fierce mable i guess that's why i get on with women so well
002556_2080_000076 because the poor cus can't talk much english it must be awful not to talk english think of not bein able to say nothin all your life without wavin your arms around and then lookin it up in a dickshunary
002556_2080_000077 i think the end's the best a lot of fellows have said that we ought to have more of that it gets the slackers the rhine is a german river where they make wine near berlin mable
002556_2080_000078 the captain called me over this mornin' and asked me where i'd like to be transferred i said home if it was the same to him so they're going to send me to the artillery this is very dangerous and useful limb of the service mable i don't know my address just write me care of the general i got the red muffler that your mother sent me give her my love just the same
002556_2080_000079 i guess you won't hear much about the poets anymore mable all you'll hear about is a broggins i hate a man what talks about himself i suppose he has joined the home defense are you gonna have a military wedding mable
002556_2080_000080 tell that to your mother i know it will please her i got so many presents from other girls and the like that it's kind of hard to remember if you sent me anything else if you did just tell me in your next letter and i'll thank you when i write again
002556_2080_000081 you remember what the fellow what trained the high school show said when he saw me act temperature that's me of course it's harder to borrow pipe tobacco and cigars but i'm tryin to show the fellows how bad cigarettes is pretty soon i'll be all okay again
002556_2080_000082 i been thinkin' that over seems to me there's a joker in the contract somewhere ask your father to read it over and see if it sounds droit that's french for right to him better still ask higgins the grocer to give it the once over he's got a grand tete as the french say when they mean brains
002556_2080_000083 i may be selfish mable but a girl can't make a cake and eat it too as the old saying is give my best to your father and mother tell them i sympathize with them in their loss it's no use writing any more cause i'm firm as the rock of gibber alter concrete that's me all over mable
002556_2080_000084 you keep mentioning a fellow named broggins in your letters now i ain't got a spark of jealousy in my nature big that's me all over mable but i warn you frankly if i ever catch one of these ailin' enemies winding up your victrola i'll kick him out of the house
002556_2080_000085 these are more like the open places on the street and sixth avenue only in the army when anything like this happens they give you a gas mask a gas mask is like a cracked ice bag with windows in it and in the front they got a cigarette holder
002556_2080_000086 i'm kind of sorry for your father if you have his liver on your hands don't blame me you know the doctor said any kind of shock would set him off a mile and now mable i'm closing for the last time it won't be no use running to the door when you here the postman no more cause he won't have nothing but the gas bill
002556_2080_000087 i feel so sorry for those fellows that i'm studying french a lot harder sos they'll have something to talk to when we get over there i'm readin' a book now that's wrote all in french no english in it anywhere mable
002556_2080_000088 an tell your mother thanks for the preserves and cake i think that's what they was they must have packed them between a steam roller and a donkey engine from the looks joe loomis picked out most of the glass and tried some he'd eat anything that fellow mabel he said it must have been pretty good when it started
002556_2080_000089 i cut out cigarettes too i was getting to be a fiend got so i had to light one whenever i got thinking i was using up most a package a day nervous and high strung that's me all over mable i smoke cigars and a pipe instead a fellow with an active mind has got to have something
002904_2350_000000 of the commune composed of the hearts of all citizens united in one common will such were the words of the council of florence and this spirit appears in all communal works of common utility such as the canals terraces vineyards and fruit gardens around florence or the irrigation canals
002904_2350_000001 close bracket great britain from which the scattered groups of deer must have gathered for a migration which was undertaken under the pressure of exceptional circumstances and realizes the difficulties which had to be overcome before all the deer came to the common idea of crossing the amur further south where it is narrowest one cannot but deeply admire the amount of sociability
002904_2350_000002 moreover it is evident that life in societies would be utterly impossible without a corresponding development of social feelings and especially of a certain collective sense of justice growing to become a habit
002904_2350_000003 after the fall of the roman empire we have to study the new aspects taken by the sociable wants of the masses in the middle ages and especially in the medieval guilds and the medieval city far from being the fighting animals they have often been compared to
002904_2350_000004 are depicted by all those who know them as a most sympathetic people thus carl bock the same author who has given such a terrible picture of head-hunting writes as regards morality i am bound to assign to the dayaks a high place in the scale of civilization robberies and theft are entirely unknown among them
002904_2350_000005 and in the federation of villages belonging or supposed to belong to one stem and when new requirements induced men to make a new start they made it in the city which represented a double network of territorial units
002904_2350_000006 may be quoted as instances in point however associations which do not extend beyond the family bonds are of relatively small importance in our case
002904_2350_000007 are not kept down by competition that at no time of the year they can struggle for food and that if they never reach anything approaching to overpopulation the cause is in the climate not in competition
002904_2350_000008 it calls four six or ten other beetles to perform the operation with united efforts if necessary they transport the corpse to a suitable soft ground and they bury it in a very considerate way without quarrelling as to which
002904_2350_000009 was bred by so many agencies and the causes of discord and jealousy might have been so numerous it is gratifying to see that cities scattered over a wide continent had so much in common and were so ready to confederate for the prosecution of so many common aims they succumbed in the long run before powerful enemies
002904_2350_000010 in ireland the system prevailed up to the great famine and as to england marshall's works which passed unnoticed until nasse and sir henry maine drew attention to them leave no doubt as to the village-community system having been widely spread in nearly all english counties at the beginning of the nineteenth century
002904_2350_000011 the men were still alive and appealed for help and several miners volunteered to work at any risk and as we went down the mine their wives had only silent tears to follow them not one word to stop them there is the gist of human psychology unless men are maddened in the battlefield they cannot stand it to hear appeals for help and not to respond to them
002904_2350_000012 our seamen u s page one hundred and ten mr pinsal added i don't wish to disparage the rich but i think it may be reasonably doubted whether these qualities are so fully developed in them
002904_2350_000013 lord shaftesbury had understood this terrible truth when he started his flowers and watercress girls fund out of which loans of one pound and only occasionally two pounds were granted to enable the girls to buy a basket and flowers when the winter sets in and they are in dire distress
002904_2350_000014 arctic expeditions have done the same when they no more could carry their invalid comrades live a few days more maybe there will be some unexpected rescue west european men of science when coming across these facts are absolutely unable to stand them they can not reconcile them with a high development of tribal morality
002904_2350_000015 and when this form of combination had been found and a series of favourable circumstances permitted the cities to affirm their independence they did so with a unity of thought which can but excite our admiration even in our century of railways telegraphs and printing
002904_2350_000016 territorial unions grew up instead of the consanguine unions of old and this new organization evidently offered many advantages under the given circumstances it recognized the independence of the family and even emphasized it
002904_2350_000017 the immense development of individual initiative which in its turn evidently led to the development of that high and varied intelligence which cannot but strike the human observer
002904_2350_000018 vied with the big agglomerations in this work and the cathedrals of laon and st ouen hardly stand behind that of rheims or the communal house of bremen or the folkmote's bell tower of breslau no works must be begun by the commune but such as are conceived in response to the grand heart
002904_2350_000019 other than the offense in trying to inflict a wound they may kill the offender or wound him more than they intended to do and this becomes a cause for a new feud so that the primitive legislators were careful in requiring the retaliation to be limited to an eye for an eye
002904_2350_000020 as we saw it with the bisons and other ruminants it also takes higher forms guaranteeing more independence to the individual without depriving it of the benefits of social life with most rodents the individual has its own dwelling which it can retire to when it prefers being left alone
002904_2350_000021 they offered their sword and their followers to settle the differences by a free fight instead of letting the discontent find out the channels which it did not fail to secure itself in olden times
002904_2350_000022 with no other intention but to increase their own wealth and their own powers in this three cornered contest between the two classes of revolted individuals and the supporters of what existed
002904_2350_000023 in this case the example of the french revolutionary convention which had issued a draconic law against coalitions of workers coalitions between a number of citizens being considered as attempts against the sovereignty of the state which was supposed equally to protect all its subjects
002904_2350_000024 i have seen men dying from consumption and knowing it and yet knocking about in snow and fog to prepare meetings speaking at meetings within a few weeks from death and only then retiring to this hospital with the words now friends i am done the doctors say i have but a few weeks to live
002904_2350_000025 that they could henceforward resist the encroachments of the inner enemies the lords as well as the invasions of foreigners a new life of freedom began to develop within the fortified enclosures the medieval city was born
002904_2350_000026 it has been extremely exaggerated but it is occasionally met with among nearly all savages and in such cases it has the same origin as the exposure of children when a savage feels that he is a burden to his tribe when every morning his share of food is taken from the mouths of the children and the little ones are not so stoical as their
002904_2350_000027 if its courage is only equalled by the most courageous vertebrates and if its brain to use darwin's words is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world perhaps more so than the brain of man
002904_2350_000028 the fittest are thus the most sociable animals and sociability appears as the chief factor of evolution both directly by securing the well-being of the species while diminishing the waste of energy and indirectly by favouring the growth of intelligence
002904_2350_000029 resulted later on in serfdom and in all the wars of the states period of human history history finds great difficulties in restoring to life the institutions of the barbarians at every step the historian meets with some faint indication which he is unable to explain with the aid of his own documents only
002904_2350_000030 each of them was a natural growth in the full sense of the word an always varying result of struggle between various forces which adjusted and re-adjusted themselves in conformity with their relative energies
002904_2350_000031 in barbarian society to assist at a fight between two men arisen from a quarrel and not to prevent it from taking a fatal issue meant to be oneself treated as a murderer but under the theory of the all-protecting state the bystander need not intrude it is the policeman business to interfere or not
002904_2350_000032 the gazelles the ibex and in fact the whole of the three numerous families of the antelopides the caprides and the ovides their watchfulness over the safety of their herds against attacks of carnivores the anxiety displayed by all individuals in a herd of chamois as long as all of them have not cleared the difficult
002904_2350_000033 he saw in it a confirmation of his pantheistic views and said if it be true that this feeding of a stranger goes through all nature as something having the character of a general law then many an enigma would be solved
002904_2350_000034 open footnote in almost all parts of the country in the midland and eastern counties particularly but also in the west in wiltshire for example in the south as in surrey in the north as in yorkshire there are extensive open and common fields out of three hundred and sixteen parishes of northampton
002904_2350_000035 everyone confesses of his own petty quarrels and finally the real cause is discovered an enemy from the next village has called it down and a raid upon that village is decided upon
002904_2350_000036 where land can be spared the communities give also a portion of their domain to allotments for fruit growing finally the sudden extension lately taken in russia by the little model farms orchards kitchen gardens and silkworm
002904_2350_000037 the common meal like the festival at the old tribal folkmote the mahl or malum or the buryate aba or the parish feast and the harvest supper was simply an affirmation of brotherhood it symbolized the times when everything was kept in common by the clan
002904_2350_000038 of each separate group of individuals in art crafts science commerce and political organization how far this attempt has been successful will be best seen when we have analyzed in the next chapter the organization of labour
002904_2350_000039 the europeans as regards swords crosses and other marks of public distinction open footnote see appendix eight close footnote the high standard of the tribal morality of the eskimos has often been mentioned in general literature nevertheless the following remarks upon the manners of the aleoutes
002904_2350_000040 is also done by all the neighbours they are treated with chestnuts and wine and the young people dance after the work has been done the same custom is practised for making nut oil and crushing hemp in the commune of l the same is done for bringing in the corn crops
002904_2350_000041 pinecones become rare in the forest they inhabit they emigrate in bands as to the black squirrels of the far west they are eminently sociable apart from the few hours given every day to foraging they spend their lives in playing in numerous parties
002904_2350_000042 one feature more of the old village communities deserves a special mention it is the gradual extension of the circle of men embraced by the feelings of solidarity not only the tribes federated into stems but the stems as well even though of different origin
002904_2350_000043 so among primitive men the weakest and stupidest went to the wall while the toughest and shrewdest those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances but not the best in another way survived
002904_2350_000044 we find them closely bound together by an extremely ancient clan organization which enables them to combine their individually weak forces to enjoy life in common
002904_2350_000045 must be right bread must be baked in justice and so on transport this language into our present life and it would seem affected and unnatural but it was natural and unaffected then because the medieval artisan did not produce for an unknown buyer
002904_2350_000046 of institutions for mutual support which exist among other barbarians or have existed among our ancestors and with some better favoured stems open bracket in bornu uganda
002904_2350_000047 each one must be equal to each other and as we are surrounded by storms high waves pirates and other dangers we must keep a strict order that we may bring our voyage to a good end that is why we shall pronounce the prayer for a good
002904_2350_000048 a fine is paid and part of it goes to the negoria then bracket the community close bracket the soil is kept in common but the crop belongs to those who have grown it
002904_2350_000049 no fewer than twelve different functionaries of the state must give their approval and an aggregate of fifty-two different acts must be performed by them and exchanged between them before the peasant is permitted to pay that money to the communal council
002904_2350_000050 and in the preventing of a european war during the last quarter of a century this spirit has undoubtedly had its share the religious charitable associations which again represent a whole world
002904_2350_000051 although the alarm was given and the peasants in the neighbourhood were on the lookout for him next morning found him concealed in a ditch close by a small village perhaps he intended to steal some food
002904_2350_000052 it is however russia which offers perhaps the best field for the study of cooperation under an infinite variety of aspects in russia it is a natural growth an inheritance from the middle ages and while a formally established co-operative society would have to cope with many legal difficulties and official suspicion
002904_2350_000053 sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle of course it would be extremely difficult to estimate however roughly the relative numerical importance of both these series of facts but if we resort to an indirect test and ask nature who are the fittest those who are continually at war with each other
002904_2350_000054 it has been remarked more than once that the chief error of hobbes and the eighteenth-century philosophers as well was to imagine that mankind began its life in the shape of small straggling families something like the limited and temporary families of the bigger carnivores
002904_2350_000055 or merchant families conquered and maintained the right of electing the military defensor and supreme judge of the town or at least of choosing between those who pretended to occupy this position in italy the young communes were continually sending away their defensors or domini fighting those who refused to go the same went on in the east in bohemia
002904_2350_000056 the javanese dessa the malayan kota or tofa and under a variety of names in abyssinia the soudan in the interior of africa with natives of both americas with all the small and large tribes of the pacific archipelago
002904_2350_000057 drawing large incomes from the estates they had still retained they surrounded themselves with numerous clients and feudalized the customs and habits of the city itself and when discontent began to be felt in the artisan classes of the town
002904_2350_000058 but even in the amur and usuri regions where animal life swarms in abundance facts of real competition and struggle between higher animals of the same species came very seldom under my notice though i eagerly searched for them
002904_2350_000059 and the trade itself seems to have been carried on for the entire city by its trustees the guild gradually became a sort of privileged body it jealously prevented the outsiders who soon began to flock into the free cities from entering the guild and kept the advantages resulting from trade
002904_2350_000060 and though his work is full of admirable hints in all possible directions it was written at a time when the evolution of human societies could not yet be treated with the knowledge we now possess
002904_2350_000061 in some instances they proceeded with great caution in one village they began by putting together all meadow land but only a small portion of the fields about five acres per soul was rendered
002904_2350_000062 but such a combination of conditions is precisely what we do not see in nature each species is continually tending to enlarge its abode migration to new abodes is the rule with the slow snail as with the swift bird
002904_2350_000063 the same is true as regards what superficial observers describe as parricide we just now saw that the habit of abandoning old people is not so widely spread as some writers have maintained it to be
002904_2350_000064 the loans were given to girls who had not a sixpence but never failed to find some other poor to go bail for them of all the movements i have ever been connected with lord shaftesbury wrote i look upon this watercress girls movement as the most successful
002904_2350_000065 or mammals combine under the pressure of exceptional circumstances to emigrate in this last case it becomes a voluntary deviation from habitual moods of life the combination sometimes appears in two or more degrees the family first then the group and finally the association of groups habitually scattered but uniting in case of need
002904_2350_000066 on the other hand the first rudiments of knowledge which appeared at an extremely remote epoch when they confounded themself with witchcraft also became a power in the hands of a individual which could be used against the tribe
002904_2350_000067 where their numbers are kept down by man not by competition closed bracket they rather seem opposed to the theory of over population if horses and cattle could so rapidly multiply in america
002904_2350_000068 of certain political liberties it was an attempt at organizing on a much grander scale than in a village community a close union for mutual aid and support for consumption and production and for social life altogether without imposing upon men the fetters of the state but giving full liberty of expression to the creative genius
002904_2350_000069 debts have certainly their importance for both the agricultural labourers and the nearly three millions of small peasant proprietors it is even doubtful whether small peasant proprietorship could be maintained without these additional resources but
002904_2350_000070 as a mortgage for state loans put up for sale and plundered as such then returned again to the communes and confiscated again in eighteen thirteen was brack and only in eighteen sixteen what remained of them that is about fifteen million acres of the least productive land was restored to the village communities
002904_2350_000071 and of a quite opposed results which are obtained when a deep modification of leading ideas has taken place self-reliance and federalism the sovereignty of each group and the construction of a political body from the simple to the composite were the leading ideas in the eleventh century but since that time the conceptions had entirely changed
002904_2350_000072 political education science and law were rendered subservient to the idea of state centralization it was taught in the universities and from the pulpit that the institutions in which men formerly used to embody
002904_2350_000073 closely live together and know how poverty begins they consider it as an accident which may visit every one don't say that you will never waver because that nor go to prison is a proverb of the russian peasants.
002904_2350_000074 policy and the wars it engendered whole regions once populous and wealthy were laid bare rich cities became insignificant boroughs the very roads which connected them with other cities became impracticable industry art and knowledge fell into decay
002904_2350_000075 with many striking illustrations of social life could be taken from the life of a reindeer and especially of that large division of ruminants which might include the roebucks the fallow deer the antelopes
002904_2350_000076 we have now to follow the further developments of the same ever living tendency for mutual aid taking the village communities of the so called barbarians at a time when they were making a new start of civilization
002904_2350_000077 it has often been intimated that larger birds may occasionally transport some of the smaller birds when they cross together the mediterranean but the fact still remains doubtful on the other side it is certain that some smaller birds join the bigger ones for migration the fact has been noticed several times and it was recently confirmed by l buxbaum
002904_2350_000078 joined together in confederations some unions were so close that for instance the vandals after part of their confederation had left for the rhine and thence went over to spain and africa respected for forty consecutive years of the landmarks and the abandoned villages of their confederates and did not take possession of them until
002904_2350_000079 the different institutions open bracket village communities guilds and so on close bracket by means of which the masses endeavoured to maintain the tribal unity notwithstanding the agencies which were at work to break it down
002904_2350_000080 they hand down to posterity the most minute descriptions of every war every battle and skirmish every contest and act of violence every kind of individual suffering but they hardly bear any trace of the countless acts of mutual support
002904_2350_000081 traces of human societies are found in the relics of both the oldest and the later stone age and when we come to observe the savages whose manners of life are still those of neolithic man
002904_2350_000082 the same impression appears in the works of most russian zoologists and it probably explains why kessler's ideas were so welcomed by the russian darwinists whilst like ideas are not in vogue amidst the followers of darwin
002904_2350_000083 which usually consists of several joint families open bracket kharoubas close bracket claiming a community of origin as well as of smaller families of strangers several villages of
002904_2350_000084 the more so as we know numbers of associations for more general purposes such as hunting mutual protection and even simple enjoyment of life audubon already mentioned that eagles
002904_2350_000085 it simply proved that however numberless the buffaloes and other ruminants were at that time in the new world its grass-eating population was far below what the prairies could maintain if millions of intruders have found plenty of food without starving out the former population of the prairies we must rather conclude that the europeans found a want of grass-eaters in america
002904_2350_000086 whole families come out of their galleries and indulge in play the young ones scratch one another they worry one another and display their gracefulness while standing upright and in the meantime the old ones keep watch they go visiting one another and the beaten footpaths
002904_2350_000087 the ethical importance of the communal possessions small as they are is still greater than their economical value they maintain in village life a nucleus of customs and habits of mutual aid which undoubtedly acts as a mighty check
002904_2350_000088 the spectator has no need to turn his thumb down as no quarter is given or further down in the same article did he not tell us that as among animals
002904_2350_000089 three thousand in eighteen eight and eighteen nine the farmers alliance and so on they were poisoned like rats killed by hunters lying in ambush before the carcass of some animal killed wherever met with one foot
002904_2350_000090 or even its movements would have had the same effect of bringing several eagles to the prey but in this case there is strong evidence in favour of mutual warning because the ten eagles came together before descending towards the prey
002904_2350_000091 were of little value for protecting the land a general movement began all over europe for fortifying the villages with stone walls and citadels thousands of fortified centres were then built by the energies of the village communities and once they had built their walls once a common interest had been created in this new sanctuary the town walls they soon understood
002904_2350_000092 they have won their friendship when da alaska and its resources cambridge u s eighteen seventy whose like distributions of wealth appear to be a regular habit with the eskimos and to take place at a certain season after an exhibition of all that has been obtained during the year benefit noted and
002904_2350_000093 captain brackett gathered all crew and passengers on the deck and held the following language as reported by a contemporary as we are now at the mercy of god and the waves he said
003169_2581_000000 brother cartwright he steps up to the hole in the floor when he first comes in and says gentle like and soothing like a undertaker when he tells you where to set at a home funeral brother walters brother hank yells out don't you brother me you sniffling psalm singing yaller faced pigeon-toed hypocrite you
003169_2581_000001 but i ain't got no money i says and i was gonna ast you could you spare me half a dollar great jehosephat says hank but ain't you gettin' stuck up what's the matter of you crawlin' in under the tent like you always done
003169_2581_000002 but she leaves the door open and goes on a-making tea and they ain't skeercly a sound from the cistern only little ripply noises like it might have been fish pretty soon a woman says it has drawed elmira won't you have a cup elmira she kicked some more but she took hern
003169_2581_000003 look at this here hotel and livery stable danny twenty years ago i didn't have no more'n you've got danny but i always went by them mottoes hard work and bein' honest you got to nail them shoes on danny and fix that wheel
003169_2581_000004 well one night he says they was an awful fight on the plains of oregon wherever them is and he got plugged full of bullet holes and his hoss run away with him and he was carried off and the hoss was going at a dead run
003169_2581_000005 they was one thing in that house i always admired when i was a kid and that was a big cistern most people had their cisterns outside their house and they is a tin pipe takes all the rain water off the roof and scoots it into them
003169_2581_000006 well alright jake says i if you feel that way about it just give me a chaw of tobacco and come around and help me hitch 'em up si emery was there asleep on a pile of straw guarding that property but ralph scott wasn't around
003169_2581_000007 chapter one  how i come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggravation mixed up with it i might of had one just as well as not if old hank walters hadn't been so all fired infernal bullheaded about things in general and his wife elmira a blame sight worse
003169_2581_000008 by and by tom alexander come busting into the house and his wife ms alexander was with him what's the matter with all you folks he says they ain't nobody hanging in that there blacksmith shop i broke the door down and went in and it was empty
003169_2581_000009 two or three old backsliders in the crowd come right up and repented all over again on the spot the whole kill and billing of 'em got the power good and hard like they does at camp meetings and revivals but hank he only cussed he was obstinate hank was and his pride and dander had riz up
003169_2581_000010 he had won from jake smith which run it and from the others but shucks it never made no difference what you won in that crowd they had done doctor kirby and looey like they always done a drummer or a stranger that come along into that town and was fool enough to play poker with them
003169_2581_000011 i throwed him and he hit the ground with considerable of a jar and then i put my knee in the pit of his stomach and churned it a couple and i thinks to myself what a fool i must of been fur better'n a year because i might of done this any time
003169_2581_000012 and the blood was running down onto the ground and the wolves smelt the blood and took out after him yipping and yowling something frightful to hear and the hoss he kicked out behind and killed the head wolf and the others stopped to eat him up and while they was eating him the hoss gained a quarter of a mile
003169_2581_000013 finally he says you're taking a ornery low down advantage of me you are let me out in this here cistern and i'll show you who'll stick it out longest on dry land darn your religious hides
003169_2581_000014 doctor he cusses the poker game and country towns and medicine shows and the hull creation and says he is so disgusted with life he guesses he'll go and be a preacher or a bearded lady in a sideshow but looey he don't cheer up none he says
003169_2581_000015 he unrolled a big chart and the injun helt it by that there gasoline lamp so all could see turning the pages now and then it was a map of a man's inside organs and digestive ornaments and things they was red and blue like each organ's own disease had turned it and some of em was yaller and they was a long string of diseases printed in black hanging down from each organ's picture
003169_2581_000016 then they was a pretty howdy-do and they all sings out where's the corpse and some thinks maybe some one has cut it down and took it away and all gabbles to oncet but for a minute no one thinks maybe little danny has been egged on to tell lies little danny ain't saying a word but elmira she grabs me and shakes me and she says you little liar you what do you mean by that tale you told
003169_2581_000017 they wasn't a chancet fur an outsider if the drummer lost they would take his money and that would be all they was to it but if the drummer got to winning good some one would slip out'n the hotel and tell si emery which was the city marshal
003169_2581_000018 then i got right mad and i run in on him again and this time i got to him and wrastled with him well sir i never was so surprised in all my life before for i hadn't had hold on him more'n a minute before i seen i'm stronger than hank is
003169_2581_000019 tom alexander he laughs and he says what in blazes you want to jump in there for hank you darn idiot says hank you quit mocking me and get a ladder and when i get out in here i'll learn you to ask what did i want to jump in here for
003169_2581_000020 ourn worked the same but our cistern was right in under our kitchen floor and they was a trap door with leather hinges opened into it right by the kitchen stove but that wasn't why i was so proud of it it was because that cistern was just plumb full of fish bullheads and red horse and sunfish and other kinds
003169_2581_000021 the first thing you knowed they was a regular revival meeting there and that preacher was preaching a regular revival sermon i been to more than one camp meeting but for just naturally taking hold of the whole human race by the slack of its pants and dangling of it over hell fire i never heard nothing could come up to that there sermon
003169_2581_000022 i never know they was so many diseases nor yet so many things to have them in well i was feeling pretty good when the show started but the doc he kept looking right at me every now and then when he talked
003169_2581_000023 i got him by the ears and i slammed his head into the gravel a few times him a reaching for my throat and a pounding me with his fists but me a taking the licks and keeping holt and i had a mighty contested time for a few minutes there on top of hank chuckling to myself and batting him one every now and then for luck and trying to make him holler it's enough but hank is stubborn he won't holler
003169_2581_000024 hank is dead and throws her apron over her head and sets right down in the path and boo hoos like a baby and i bellers louder ms rogers she never waited to ask nothing more
003169_2581_000025 just then old miss rogers which is one of our neighbours comes by while elmira is shaking me and yelling what did i mean and how did it happen and had i saw it and where was hank's corpse and miss rogers she says what's danny been doing now elmira me being always up to something elmira she turned around and seen her and she gives a whoop and then hollers out
003169_2581_000026 first thing i know you'll be wanting a pair of these here yaller shoes and a stovepipe hat no says i i ain't no dude hank and you know it but they is always things about a circus to spend money on besides just the circus herself they is the side show for instance and they is the grand concert afterward i calculated i'd take 'em all in this year the whole dern thing just fur oncet
003169_2581_000027 hank is a corpse says i blubbering a corpse says elmira dropping her coffee which she was carrying home from the general store and post office danny what do you mean i seen i was to blame somehow and i wished then i hadn't said nothing about hank being a corpse and i made up my mind i wouldn't say nothing more
003169_2581_000028 so when she grabs hold of me and asks me again what did i mean i blubbered harder just the way a kid will and says nothing else i wish i hadn't set them flatirons on that door for it come to me all at once that even if hank has turned into a corpse i ain't got any right to keep him in that sister
003169_2581_000029 get me a ladder gol dern you and i'll come out'n here and learn you to brother me i will only that wasn't nothin' to what hank really said to that preacher no more like it than a little yaller fluffy canary is like a buzzard brother walters says the preacher calm but firm we have all decided that you ain't gonna come out of that cistern till you sign the pledge
003169_2581_000030 and i couldn't keep my eyes off'n him does your heart beat fast when you exercise he asks the crowd is your tongue coated after meals do your eyes leak when your nose is stopped up do you perspire under your armpits do you ever have a ringing in your ears does your stomach hurt after meals does your back ever ache do you ever have pains in your legs do your eyes blur when you look at the sun
003169_2581_000031 each woman took hern and one woman a sipping of hern she says the departed had his good pints elmira which was the best thing had been said of hank in that town for years and years
003169_2581_000032 and hank would just cuss and cuss every time he busted out into another cussing spell they would start another hymn finally the men out in the front yard got warmed up too and begun to sing all but bill nolan's crowd and they gave hank up for lost and went away disgusted
003169_2581_000033 that was before siwash injun sagraw was ever found out about doctor kirby broke down and cried right there in the wagon when he thought of how his father might of been saved if he was only alive now that that medicine was put up into bottle form six for a five dollar bill so long as he was in town and after that two dollars for each bottle at the drug store
003169_2581_000034 fur now i've licked hank oncet i figger he won't rest till he has wiped that disgrace out and he won't care a dern what he picks up to do it with nuther they was a crick about a hundred yards from our house in the woods and i went over there and laid down and watched it run by
003169_2581_000035 i thinks that lamming is about due now but whilst all eyes is turned on me and elmira they comes a voice from that cistern it is hank's voice and he sings out tom alexander is that you some of the women scream for some thinks it is hank's ghost but one woman says what would a ghost be doing in a cistern
003169_2581_000036 and both of them ready to row at a minute's notice and stick to it forevermore hank he was considerable of a lusher one saturday night when he come home from the village in his usual fix
003169_2581_000037 you come here and take off your shirt but i just moves away hank he runs in on me and he swings his strap i throwed up my arm and it cut me across the knuckles i run in on him and he dropped the strap and fetched me an openhanded smack plumb on the mouth that jarred my head back and like to of busted it loose
003169_2581_000038 all right doc but it's no use talking you can talk all right we all know that the question is how are we going to get our horses and wagon away from these rubes i listens some more and i seen them fellers was really into bad trouble doctor kirby he had got into a poker game at smith's palace hotel the night before right after the show
003169_2581_000039 it was about a even bet which would get me first i kind of got to wondering which i figured from what he said i'd had consumption the longest while but my kind of kidney trouble was an awful sly kind and i was liable to jump in without no warning at all and just naturally wipe me out quick so i sort of bet on the kidney trouble
003169_2581_000040 hollers out before she reached the porch hank walters is dead and then she went footing it up the street they was a black plume on her bonnet which nodded the same as on a hearse and she was into and out of seven front yards in five minutes
003169_2581_000041 well says i he needed it considerable but says he still more solemn the good book says to honour thy father and thy mother well i says mebby it does and mebby it don't but he ain't my father nohow and he ain't been getting no more'n his come-uppings vengeance is mine saith the lord the big man remarks very serious
003169_2581_000042 well the doctor he had started out winning the night before and si emery and ralph scott had arrested them and that morning while i had been laying by the crick and the rest of the town was seeing the fun they had been took afore squire matthews and fined one hundred and twenty-five dollars apiece
003169_2581_000043 but the kick was already started into the air and when he turns he can't stop it and so hank gets twisted and falls down and steps on himself that basket lets out a yowl it's kittens says hank still setting down and staring at that there basket all of which you understand i am a-telling you from hearsay as the lawyers always asts you in court
003169_2581_000044 so they fixed it up that brother cartwright was to write out a pledge on the inside leaf of the bible and tie that bible onto a string and a lead pencil onto another string and let the strings down hank and he was  make his mark for he couldn't write and they was to be pulled up again
003169_2581_000045 are your teeth coated does your hair come out when you comb it is your breath short when you walk up stairs do your feet swell in warm weather are there white spots on your fingernails do you draw your breath part of the time through one nostril and part of the time through the other do you ever have a nightmare
003169_2581_000046 and i had some of 'em yet i begun to feel kinda sick and looking at them organs and diseases didn't help me none either the doctor he lit out on another string of symptoms and i had them too seems to me i had purty nigh everything but fits kidney complaint and consumption both had a holt on me
003169_2581_000047 so along about ten o'clock he sings out i give in gosh dern ye i give in let me out and i'll sign your pesky pledge brother cartwright was for getting a ladder and letting him climb out right away but elmira she says don't you do it brother cartwright don't you do it you don't know hank walters like i does if he once gets out o there before he's signed that pledge he won't never sign it
003169_2581_000048 did your nose bleed easily when you were growing up does your skin fester when scratched are your eyes gummy in the mornings then he says if you have any or all of these symptoms your blood is bad and your liver is wasting away well sir i seen i was in a bad way for at one time or another i had had most of them there signs and warnings and i hadn't heeded em
003169_2581_000049 but i was scared to say nothing about that there cistern so i just bawled some more was it in the blacksmith shop says ms alexander i nodded my head again and let it go at that is he in there now asked ms alexander i nodded again
003169_2581_000050 at that hank fairly roared he was so mad he says elmira when i get out'n here i'll give you what you won't forget in a hurry i hearing you a forgiving me and a-weeping over me and i won't be forgived nor weeped over by no one you go and get that ladder
003169_2581_000051 siwash indian sagraw nature's universal medicinal specific discovered by dr hartley l kirby among the aborigines of oregon on account of being so busy neither hank nor me had hearing the wagon come along the road and stop the big man in the plug hat he says or they was words to that effect just as serious why are you mauling that aged gent
003169_2581_000052 hank he scratches his head for he's kind of confuddled and thinks maybe he really has brought this basket with him he tries to think of all the places he has been that night but he can't think of any place but bill nolan's saloon so he says elmira honest i ain't had but one drink all day
003169_2581_000053 but elmira only answers you wasn't sober when you fell into there hennerey walters and now you can just stay in there till you get a better temper on you and all the women says that's right elmira spunk up to him
003169_2581_000054 hank he gets up and then he sets down sudden on a horse block and wipes his face on his sleeve which they was considerable blood come onto the sleeve i looks around to see who has had hold of me and it is two men one of them looks about seven feet tall on account of a big plug hat and a long white linen duster and has a beautiful red beard
003169_2581_000055 well they played a purty close game of poker in our little town it was jest like the doctor says to looey by george he says it is a why nell perfect thing if you lose you lose and if you win you lose
003169_2581_000056 but i seen i was a goner and i forgive hank all his orneriness for a feller don't wanna die holding grudges taking it the whole way through that was about the best medicine show i ever seen but they didn't sell much all the people had any money was to the circus again that night so they sung some more songs and closed early and went into the hotel
003169_2581_000057 he stumbled over a basket that was setting on his front steps then he got up and drawed back his foot unsteady to kick it plumb into kingdom come just then he hearing elmira opening the door behind him and he turned his head sudden
003169_2581_000058 and purty soon i thinks what am i going to do for hank will be so mad when i let him up he'll just naturally kill me without i kill him and i was scared because i don't want neither one of them things to happen whilst i was thinking it over and getting scareder and scareder and banging hank's head harder and harder someone grabs me from behind they was two of them and one gets my collar and one gets the seat of my pants and they drug me off'n him
003169_2581_000059 then the drummer or whoever it was would be took to the calaboose and spend all night there in the morning they would be took before squire matthews that was justice of the peace they would be fined a big fine and he would get all the drummer had won and all he had brung to town with him besides
003169_2581_000060 they was considerable splashing around in the water for a couple of minutes and then all of a sudden a live fish come a-whirling out of that hole which he had catched it with his hands it was a big bullhead and its whiskers around its mouth was stiffened into spikes
003169_2581_000061 elmira sings out hank mad and bossy you go get me a ladder but elmira her temper riz up too all of a sudden don't you dare order me around like i was the dirt under your feet hennerey walters she says
003169_2581_000062 and he was scared of getting a cramp in his legs and sinking down with his head under water and being drownded he said afterward he'd of done the last with pleasure if they was any way of suing that crowd for murder
003169_2581_000063 elmira she sings out kittens nothing it's a baby and she opens the basket and looks in and it was me hennerey walters she says picking me up and shaking me at him like i was a crime hennerey walters where did you get this here baby she always calls him hennerey when she is getting ready to give him fits
003169_2581_000064 ms alexander turned to me and wants to know what happened and how it happened and where it happened but i don't want to say nothing about that cistern so i busts out bellering fresher'n ever and i says he was drunk and he come home drunk and he done it then and that's how he cone it i says and you seen him she says i nodded where is he says she and elmira both to oncet
003169_2581_000065 miss alexander she runs across the street to where we was and she kneels down and puts her arm around elmira which was still rocking back and forth in the path and she says how do you know he's dead elmira i seen him not more than an hour ago danny seen it all says elmira
003169_2581_000066 and then he kinda rouses up a little bit and gets surprised and says that a baby you got there elmira and then he says dignified so far as that's concerned elmira where did you get that there baby
003169_2581_000067 so they done it they went and they come back with vittles and they made up hot coffee and they feasted and that preacher and theirselves and elmira and me all right in hank's hearing and hank was getting hungry himself and he was cold in that water and the fish was nibbling at him and he was getting cussed out and weak and soaked full of despair and there wasn't no way for him to sit down and rest
003169_2581_000068 some of the folks there hadn't had no suppers so after all the other sinners but hank had either got converted or else sneaked away some of the women says why not make a kind of love feast out of it and bring some vittles like they does to church sociables because it seems likely satan is gonna wrestle all night long like he done with the angel jacob and they ought to be prepared
003169_2581_000069 in the road they is a big stout road wagon with a canopy top over it pulled by two horses and on the wagon box they is a strip of canvas which i couldn't read then what was wrote on the canvas but i learnt later it said in big print
003169_2581_000070 squire matthews and jake smith and windy goodell and mart watson which the two last was lawyers was always playing that there game on drummers that was fool enough to play poker hank he says he bet they divided it up afterwards though it was supposed them fines went to the town
003169_2581_000071 she seen she had a piece of news and she's bound to be the first to spread it like they is always a lot of women wants to be in them country towns she run right cross that road to where the alexanders lived miss alexander she seen her coming and unhooked the screen door and miss rogers she
003169_2581_000072 you never seen the day you could do it says tom alexander meaning the day he could lick him and if you feel that way about it you can stay there for all of me i guess a little water won't hurt you none and he left the house
003169_2581_000073 and hank tells him what he thinks of pledges and him and church doings and it wasn't purty and he says if he was as deep in eternal fire as what he now is in rainwater and every fish that nibbles at his toes was a preacher with a red hot pitchfork a jabbing at him
003169_2581_000074 hank he looks at me like i'd asked for a house and lot or a million dollars or something like that but he don't say nothing he just snorts hank i says i been doing right smart work around the shop for two three years now if you wasn't loafing so much you'd a noticed it more and i ain't never ask for a cent of pay for it nor you ain't worth no pay says hank you ain't worth nothing but to eat vittles and wear out clothes
003169_2581_000075 but they ate him up and they was gaining again for the smell of human blood was on the plains of oregon he says and the sight of his mother's face when she asked him never to be a cowboy come to him in the moonlight and he knowed that somehow all would yet be well
003169_2581_000076 she looks at him and she sees he don't really know where i come from old hank mostly was truthful when liquored up for that matter and she knowed it for he couldn't think up no lies excepting a general denial when intoxicated up to the gills
003169_2581_000077 old miss primrose she always prided herself on being honest no matter what come and she ups and says i don't believe in no hippercritics at a time like this no more'n no other time the departed wasn't no good and the whole town knowed it
003169_2581_000078 so he didn't wake up till we hitched him up he says he will ride around to the shop with me but jake says it's all right see i'll go over myself and fetch him back purty soon which he was wore out with being up so late the night before and goes back to sleep again right off
003169_2581_000079 so long as hank has turned into a corpse and that makes him dead what's the difference whether he's in the blacksmith shop or not for i hadn't had any plain idea being such a little kid that a corpse meant to be dead and wasn't sure what being dead was like neither except they had funerals over you then
003169_2581_000080 elmira walters that was elmira appleton if you let hank out in that cistern before he has signed the pledge and promised to join the church you're a bigger fool then i take you to be a woman has got to make a stand
003169_2581_000081 with shows and electric belts and things that they got to stop dreening that town of hard earned money and he has decided to make an example of em the only two lawyers in town is windy and mart which has been in the poker game theirselves the same as always the doctor says the whole thing is a put up job and he can't get the money and he wouldn't if he could
003169_2581_000082 beneath a shady chestnut tree the village blacksmith stands the smith a pleasant soul is he with warts upon his hands he stares at hank hard and solemn and serious while he is saying that poetry at him hank fidgets and turns his eyes away but the feller touches him on the breast with his finger and makes him look at him
003169_2581_000083 elmira looks into the basket they was one of them long rubber tubes stringing out of a bottle that was in it and i had been sucking that bottle when interrupted and they wasn't nothing else in that basket but a big thick shawl which had been wrapped all around me and elmira often wore it to a meeting afterward
003169_2581_000084 the doctor he tells squire matthews it is an outrage and it ain't legal if tried in a bigger court and they ain't that much money in the world so for as he knows and he won't pay it but the squire he says the time has come to teach them travelling fakirs as is always running around the country
003169_2581_000085 i laid awful still thinking i wished i was away from that town pretty soon a squirrel comes down and sets on a log and watches me i throwed an acorn at him and he scooted up a tree quicker'n scat and then i wished i hadn't scared him away for it looked like he knowed i was in trouble
003169_2581_000086 and just as hank made that mark he spoke some words over him and then he says now henry walters i have baptized you and you are a member of the church you'd a thought hank would of broke out cussing again at being took unexpected that a way for he hadn't really agreed to nothing but signing the pledge but nary a cuss
003169_2581_000087 hank's father had built that cistern and one time he brung home some live fish in a bucket and dumped them in there and they growed and they multiplied in there and refurnished the earth
003169_2581_000088 hank he says all right and they done it but just as hank was making his mark on the leaf of the book that preacher done what i has always thought was a mean trick he was lying on the floor with his head and shoulders into that hole as far as he could holding a lantern way down into it so as hank could see
003169_2581_000089 i hadn't meant to give out no untrue stories but a kid will always tell a lie not meaning to tell one if you sort of invite him with questions like that and get him scared the way you're acting besides i says to myself
003169_2581_000090 hank he rose up then and he says mister be you a preacher cause if you be the sooner you have drove on the better for ye i got a grudge against all preachers that feller he just looks hank over calm and easy and slow before he answers and he wrinkles up his face like he never seen anything like hank before then he fetches a kind of aggravating smile and he says
003169_2581_000091 you never fought it out fair and square neither man playing to outlast man like you done with this here pledge but you sneaked it in on me when i wasn't looking there was a lot of men in that crowd that thought the preacher had went too far and sympathized with hank the way he done about that hurt brother cartwright in our town
003169_2581_000092 she might of banged him one the same as usual and got her own eye blacked also the same as usual but just then i lets out another big yowl and she give me some milk
003426_1708_000000 he made no direct reply the boat was worth two thousand rupees he said i now see my mistake and if excused this will never i i will never
003426_1708_000001 with which he threw himself at my feet i asked him to come ten days later if only we could pay him that two thousand rupees at once we could buy him up body and soul
003426_1708_000002 but the glow on their genius enthusiasm lighted them up within as well as without it became quite clear that when the pure breezes of great joy and hope sweets sweep through the land all dirt and decay are cleansed away
003426_1708_000003 their very smallness protects them as the banks protect the pool by widening bounds only the slime is exposed the real fact is that bimala has only come into my home not into my life
003426_1708_000004 and succeeded in acquiring philosophy enough to forget that his children went hungry he kept himself steeped for a time in the idea that the world is vanity and if of pleasure it has none pain also in delusion then at last one night he left his little ones in their tumble-down hovel
003426_1708_000005 the long and short of it is that money we must have and that soon we must take whatever comes the readiest for we cannot afford to wait i know that the immediate often swallows up the ultimate that the five thousand rupees of today may nip up in the bud of fifty thousand rupees of tomorrow but i must accept the penalty
003426_1708_000006 for what fault i enquired because i was told he has been found selling foreign cloths he begged and prayed harish kundu his zamindar to let him sell off his stock
003426_1708_000007 it was palpable that she had specially dressed herself to coax that order out out of me till that moment i had never viewed bimala's adornment as a thing apart from herself but today the elaborate manner in which she had done up her hair in the english fashion made it appear a mere decoration
003426_1708_000008 though her own people are not well off she was born a rani she has no doubts in her mind that there is a lower unit of measure for the trials and troubles of the lower classes want is of course a permanent feature of their lives but does not necessarily mean want to them
003426_1708_000009 and started off wandering on his own account i knew nothing of this at the time for just then a veritable ocean churning by gods and demons was going on in my head nor did my master tell me that he had taken panchu's deserted children under his roof and was caring for them through all alone in the house with his school to attend to the whole day
003426_1708_000010 at first there was no intelligible answer then it became clear that the bond against which i had been fretting inwardly night and day had broken to my surprise i discovered that my mind was freed from all mistiness i could see everything relating to bimala as if vividly pictured on a camera screen
003426_1708_000011 have we been able as i began to believe with all our heart in the god for whose worship we have been born all these millions of year until he actually made himself visible to us how i often have i told you i continued that had i not seen you i never would have known all my country as one
003426_1708_000012 but the cultivator at the point of his plough impresses his endeavour deep in the soil when i next saw bimala i pitched my key high without further ado
003426_1708_000013 bought with borrowed money promising faithfully never to do it again but the zamindar would not hear of it and insisted on his burning the foreign stuff there and then if he wanted to be let off panchu in his desperation blurted out defiantly i can't afford it you are rich why not buy it up and burn it
003426_1708_000014 but when sandip came and settled here and his followers began to move about the country speaking in towns and marketplaces waves of excitement came rolling up to us as well a band of young fellows of the locality attached themselves to him some even had been known as a disgrace to the village
003426_1708_000015 whose absorbing powers must be reckoned with the manager will take what he wants i also have my own wants these lesser wants form a part of wants of the great cause the horse must be fed and the wheels must be oiled if the best progress is to be made
003426_1708_000016 while panchu was thus engaged the full shock of the swadeshi flood fell on him seven it was vacation time and many youths of our village and its neighbourhood
003426_1708_000017 they came up in a body and demanded that i should banish foreign goods from my suksar market i told them i could not do it they were sarcastic why maharaja will the loss be too much for you
003426_1708_000018 what a wealth of color and movement suggestion and deception group themselves round this me and mine in woman that is just where her beauty lies she's ever so much more personal than man
003426_1708_000019 bimala slid down from her seat and fell at my feet which she clasped and then she sobbed and sobbed and sobbed this is hypnotism the charm which can subdue the world no materials no weapons but just the delusion of irresistible suggestion who says truth shall triumph
003426_1708_000020 the first two anniversaries of our marriage life i spent in calcutta where i went through my examinations but from the next year onward for seven years without a break we have celebrated our union among the blossoming water-lilies now begins the next octave of my life
003426_1708_000021 what then is your plan there is one only well-known way of avoiding quarrels said nikhil meaningly i know that like tales written by good people nikhil's discourse always ends in a moral
003426_1708_000022 it is no use arguing about these things nikhil my master interposed how can they who do not feel the truth within them realize that to bring it out from its obscurity into the light is man's highest aim not to keep on heaping material outside
003426_1708_000023 political cookery on a large scale is doubtless going on but oh i know you of course will never do any of the cooking you prefer to be one of those down whose throats the hotchpotch which is being cooked will be crammed
003426_1708_000024 i took no notice of the insult in their tone and was about to reply that the loss would fall on the poor traders and their customers not on me when my master who was present interposed yes the loss will be his not yours that is clear enough he said
003426_1708_000025 the fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man if that were not so the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of nature's energy ah pride pride the trouble was not that the necessary thing had failed of accomplishment but that the entreaty which had cost her such a struggle to make should have been refused
003426_1708_000026 delusion shall win in the end the bengali understood this when he conceived the image of the ten handed goddess astride her lion and spread her worship in the land bengal must now create a new image to enchant and conquer the world
003426_1708_000027 it had no resemblance to our past and so we're led to hope that all our wants and miseries would disappear by the spell of some magic charm that for us was no longer a boundary line between the possible and the impossible everything seemed to be saying to us it is coming to us it has come
003426_1708_000028 there at the beginning of time a man and a woman first met not within walls and therefore we two must come back to nature at least once a year to tune our love anew to the first pure note of the meeting of hearts
003426_1708_000029 but keep their eyes as always fixed or on thereafter i have long been nursing a plan which if only i could carry it out would set fire to the whole country true patriotism will never be roused in our countrymen unless they can visualize the motherland
003426_1708_000030 they had become heaped up but were never before united yet in this day when had come to bengal even this collection of looseness had taken shape and proclaimed in a thundering voice at our
003426_1708_000031 had come home from their schools and colleges they attached themselves to sandip's leadership with enthusiasm and some in their excess of zeal gave up their studies altogether many of the boys had been free pupils of my school here and some held college scholarships from me in calcutta
003426_1708_000032 i could see at once that she had been unsuccessful with nikhil she had been so proudly confident that she would have her own way but i had never shared her confidence woman knows man well enough where he's weak but she's quite unable to fathom him where he's strong
003426_1708_000033 the strange part of it is that with all his familiarity with moral prospects he still believes in them he is an incorrigible schoolboy his only merit is his sincerity the mischief with people like him is that they will not admit the finality even of death
003426_1708_000034 and the more we claimed the more she submitted from primeval days we have been plucking fruits cutting down trees digging up the soil killing beast bird and fish
003426_1708_000035 it was difficult for me to ignore the fact that the same month of august had come round again this year does bimala remember it i wonder she has given me no reminder everything is mute about me it is august the sky breaks into a passionate rain alas empty is my house
003426_1708_000036 if the idea of a united india is a true one objects nikhil mussulmans are a necessary part of it quite so said i but we must know their place and keep them there otherwise they will constantly be giving trouble so you want to make trouble to prevent trouble
003426_1708_000037 i used to tell bimala that a song must come back to its refrain over and over again the original refrain of every song is in nature where the rain laden wind passes over the rippling stream where the green earth drawing its shadows veil over its face keep its ear close to the speaking water
003426_1708_000038 the wealthy shall hasten to throw upon their treasure for your acceptance those who have nothing else shall beg to be allowed to offer their lives o my king my god what you have seen in me i know not but i have seen the immensity of your grandeur in my heart
003426_1708_000039 very own door here i am how could we help thinking that it was all supernatural this moment of our history seemed to have dropped into our hand like a jewel from the crown of some drunken god
003426_1708_000040 while these are made over to the maids for washing clothes another time it is oh brother dear do get some for me of these new indian pen-holders her brothers bubbles up as usual
003426_1708_000041 sandip laughed right sir said he quite a correct speech for a schoolmaster this is the kind of stuff i have read in books but in the real world i have seen that man's chief business is the accumulation of outside material
003426_1708_000042 this sort of thing makes my husband beam all over and the house is deluged with indian scents and soaps soaps indeed they are more like lumps of caustic soda and do i not know that what my sister-in-law uses on herself are the european soaps of old
003426_1708_000043 the only one ever handled the fact is all this was intended as a hit at me because i would i would not keep my husband company in his vagaries it was no good trying to show up my sister-in-law's insincerity my husband's face would set so hard if i barely touched on it
003426_1708_000044 who am i what am i in its presence ah the awful power of devastation never shall i truly live till it kills me utterly i can bear it no longer my heart is breaking
003426_1708_000045 thus we came to cherish the belief that our history needed no steed but that like heaven's chariot it would move into its own inherent power at least no wages would have to be paid to the charioteer
003426_1708_000046 for is it not the habit of man's mind to be in purposeless conflict with itself i thought i had imposed too hard a task my first impulse was to call her back and tell her i would rather not make her life wretched by dragging her into all these troubles
003426_1708_000047 i think i've come to the verge of understanding one thing man has so fanned the flame of the loves of men and women as to make it overpass its rightful domain and now even in the name of humanity itself he cannot bring it back under control
003426_1708_000048 it is because i strongly believe in god said my husband that i feel so certain that our preparations for this worship are lacking god has power to give the boon but we must have the power to accept it
003426_1708_000049 the house which becomes empty through the parting of lovers still has music left in the heart of its emptiness but the house that is empty because hearts are asunder is awful in its silence even the cry of pain is out of place there
003426_1708_000050 you have spent your whole past in a superior compartment and now you come down to use them as tools for the wreaking of your wrath i call it cowardly
003426_1708_000051 unfortunately for us our illusions are alive enough but we do not know how to make them serve our purpose look at the brahmins in spite of our treating them as demi-gods and untiringly taking the dust of their feet they are a force going to waste
003426_1708_000052 this cry of pain must be silenced in me so long as i continue to suffer bimala will never have true freedom i must free her completely otherwise i shall never gain my freedom from untruth
003426_1708_000053 once before bimala had offered up her own ornaments i am not usually in the habit of drawing lines but i felt i had to draw the line there i know why i feel this hesitation it is for the man to give ornaments to woman to take them from her wounds his manliness but i must forget myself
003426_1708_000054 the one delight of this earth is to fulfil the claims of those who are men she has been made fertile and beautiful and complete through her endless sacrifices to them
003426_1708_000055 only his wine cup would have to be filled again and again and then in some impossible paradise the goal of our hopes would be reached my husband was not altogether unmoved but through all our excitement it was the strain of sadness in which deepened and deepened
003426_1708_000056 is not all that each one has yours what are my caskets full of jewelery for drag away from me all my gold and gems for your worship i have new use for them
003426_1708_000057 i am humble follower of these great ones when i was attached to the congress party i never hesitate to dilute ten percent of the truth with ninety percent of untruth
003426_1708_000058 you may do as you please to work off your irritation to keep up your fanaticism you are well off you need not mind the cost the poor do not want to stand in your way but you insist on their submitting to your compulsion
003426_1708_000059 in the morning light on the clothes rack was hanging a sari of bimala's crinkled ready for wear on the dressing-table were her perfumes her comb her hair-pins and with them still her vermilion box underneath were her tiny gold-embroidered slippers
003426_1708_000060 and now merely because i have ceased to belong to that party i have not forgotten the basic fact that man's goal is not truth but success true success corrected my master
003426_1708_000061 man's worship has idolized his passion but there must be no more human sacrifices at at its shrine i went into my bedroom this morning to fetch a book it is long since i have been there in the daytime a pang passed through me as i looked round it today
003426_1708_000062 when man was being made the creator was a schoolmaster his bag full of commandments and principles but when he came to woman he resigned his headmastership and turned artist with only his brush and paint box
003426_1708_000063 bee said i we two are colleagues for our aims are one let us sit down and talk it over i led her unresisting to a seat but strange at that very point
003426_1708_000064 you are his only dissipation and you will be his ruin whatever you may say it is not right to be double-faced i retorted my sister-in-law laughed out in my face oh you artless little chota rani straight as a schoolmaster's rod eh
003426_1708_000065 but a woman is not built that way she's soft and supple so that she may bend without being crooked i could not forget those words you are his dissipation and will be his ruin today i feel if a man needs must have some intoxicant let it not be a woman
003426_1708_000066 am i taking them they are for the divine mother to be poured in worship at her feet oh but it must be a grand ceremony of worship such as the country has never beheld before it must be a landmark in our history it shall be my supreme
003426_1708_000067 likewise by sheer force of our claims we men have opened up all the latent possibilities of women in the process of surrendering themselves to us they have ever gained their true greatness because they had to bring all the diamonds of their happiness and the pearls of their sorrow into our royal treasury
003426_1708_000068 when your brother is present your mouth waters at the very mention of swadeshi scissors but it is an english-made article every time when you work what harm she replied
003426_1708_000069 god is necessary to clear away our illusions the divinities which keep them alive are false gods what of that if need be even false gods must be invoked rather than let the work suffer
003426_1708_000070 when bimala stood silently there flushed and tearful in her broken pride like a storm-cloud laden with rain and charged with lightning lowering over the horizon she looked so absolutely sweet that i had to right go right up to her and take her by the hand it was trembling but she did not snatch it
003426_1708_000071 this kind of talk from my husband would only annoy me i could not keep from joining in you think this excitement is only a fire of drunkenness but not drunkenness up to a point give strength
003426_1708_000072 with this he flung out of the room my master smiled as he looks towards me do you know nikhil he said i believe sandip is not irreligious his religious is of observe size of truth
003426_1708_000073 the rush of my impetuosity suffered an unaccountable check just as the current of the mighty padma roaring on its irresistible course all of a sudden gets turned away from the bank it is crumbling by some trifling obstacle beneath the surface when i pressed bimala's hand
003426_1708_000074 those who are masters in the art advertise the biggest lies in their business enter false accounts into their political ledgers with their broadest pointed pens launch their newspapers daily laden with untruths and send preachers abroad to disseminate falsehood like flies carrying palestinian germs
003426_1708_000075 but now you would dictate what salt they shall eat what clothes they shall wear why should they put up with such tyranny and why should we let them but we have taken to indian salt and sugar and cloth ourselves
003426_1708_000076 that we have not kept things ready to be able to invite into it into our homes no was sandip's answer you talk like an atheist because you do not believe in our gods to us it has been made quite visible that the goddess has come with a boom yet you distrust the obvious signs of her presence
003426_1708_000077 but for one's country the country does not mean the soil but the men on it interrupted my master again have you yet wasted so much as a glance on what was happening to them
003426_1708_000078 we must make a goddess of her my colleagues saw the point at once let us divide an appropriate image they exclaimed it will not do if you devise it i admonished them
003426_1708_000079 maybe replied sandip but the fruit of the true success ripens only by cultivating the field of untruth after tearing up the soil and pounding it into the dust truth grows up by itself like weeds and thorns and only worms can expect to get fruit from it
003426_1708_000080 but for this she would be lost in the wilderness not knowing herself the doors of her heart shut her diamonds and pearls never seeing the light
003426_1708_000081 do you not see what pleasure it gives him we have grown up together in this house since he was a boy i simply cannot bear as you can the sight of the smile leaving his face poor dear he has no amusement except this playing at the shop-keeping
003426_1708_000082 my nerves rang music like tuned up strings but the symphony stopped short at the first movement what stood in the way nothing singly it was a tangle of a multitude of things nothing definitely palpable but only that unaccountable sense of obstruction
003426_1708_000083 he seemed to have a vision of something beyond the surging present i remember one day in the course of the arguments he continually had with sandip he said good fortune comes to our gate and announces itself only to prove that we have not the power to receive it
003426_1708_000084 one only gets into trouble trying to save such people from being imposed upon the bara rani loves sewing one day i could not help blurting out what a humbug you are sister
003426_1708_000085 they have found their true wealth so for men to accept is truly to give for women to give is truly to gain the demand i have just made from bimala however is indeed a large one at first i felt scruples
003426_1708_000086 bande mataram i gently lifted bimala back to into her chair and lest reaction should set in i began again without losing time queen the divine mother has laid on me the duty of establishing her worship in the land but alas i am poor bimala was still flushed her eyes clouded her accents thick as she replied you poor
003426_1708_000087 we must get one of the current images accepted as representing the country the worship of the people must flow towards it along the deep-cut grooves of custom but nikhil's need must argue even about this we must not seek the help of illusions he said to me some time ago but what we believe to be true cause
003426_1708_000088 illusions are necessary for lesser minds i said and to this class the greater portion of the world belongs that is why divinities are set up in every country to keep up the illusions of the people for men are only too well aware of their weakness no he replied
003426_1708_000089 as it is every moment of theirs is a life and death struggle for a bare living you cannot even imagine the difference a few pence means to them so little have you in common
003426_1708_000090 i have had words with nikhil about it said sandip he tells me he does not mind specifying but he will not have coercion i will see to that i said with a proud sense of power
003426_1708_000091 yes my husband replied it may give strength but not weapons but strength is a gift of the god i went on weapons can be supplied by mere mechanics my husband smiled
003803_3250_000000 that night sir artegall did cause his tent there to be pitched on the open plain for he had given straight commandment that none should dare him once to entertain which none durst break though many would right fain for fair irena whom they loved dear
003803_3250_000001 amongst the which then fortuned to be the noble briton prince with his brave peer who when he none of all those knights did see hastily bent that enterprise to hear nor undertake the same for coward fear
003803_3250_000002 which when the lady from the castle saw where she with her two sons did looking stand she towards him in her haste herself did draw to greet him the good fortune of his hand
003803_3250_000003 that it the postern did from closing stay and whiles the prince hard pressed in between and entrance won straight the other fled away and ran into the hall where he did ween himself to save but he there slew him at the screen
003803_3250_000004 then to his first emprise his mind he lent full loath to belgce and to all the rest of whom yet taking leave thenceforth he went and to his former journey him addressed on which long way he rode ne ever day did rest
003803_3250_000005 and all the people both of town and land which there stood gazing from the cities wall upon these warriors greedy to understand to whether should the victory befall now when they saw it fall they eke him greeted all
003803_3250_000006 her hands were foul and dirty never washed in all her life with long nails overwrought like puttockes claws with th'one of which she scratched her cursed head although it itched naught
003803_3250_000007 then all the rest which in that castle were seeing that sad ensample them before darest not abide but fled away for fear and then conveyed out at a postern door long sought the prince but when he found no more to oppose against his power he forth issued
003803_3250_000008 which message when grantorto heard full fain and glad he was the slaughter so to stay and pointed for the combat twixt them twain the morrow next ne gave him longer day so sounded the retreat and drew his folk away
003803_3250_000009 he stepped forth with courage bold and great admired of all the rest in presence there and humbly gan that mighty queen entreat to grant him that adventure for his former feat
003803_3250_000010 whom now her keepers had forsaken quite to save themselves and scattered were abrode her half dismayed they found in doubtful plight as neither glad nor sorry for their sight yet wondrous fair she was and richly clad in royal robes and many jewels dight
003803_3250_000011 it often falls in course of common life that right long time is overborne of wrong through avarice or power or guile or strife that weakens her and makes her party strong
003803_3250_000012 but now aread sir sergis how long space hath he her lent a champion to provide ten days quoth he he granted hath of grace for that he weaneth well before that tide none can have tidings to assist her side for all the shores which to the sea accost
003803_3250_000013 soon as he did within the lists appear with dreadful look he artegall beheld as if he would have daunted him with fear and grinning griesly did against him weld his deadly weapon which in hand he held
003803_3250_000014 with hope of help in that her greatest need so thence he wished her with him to wend unto some place where they both rest and feed and she take comfort which god now did send good heart in evils doth the evils much an end
003803_3250_000015 of stature huge and hideous he was like to a giant for his monstrous height and did in strength most sorts of men surpass ne ever any found his match in might
003803_3250_000016 so to the church he came where it was told the monster underneath the altar lay there he that idol saw of mossy gold most richly made but there no monster did behold
003803_3250_000017 and that so wretched one as ye do see is like her lingering death then loathed life to be much was he moved with her piteous plight and low dismounting from his lofty steed gone to recomfort her all that he might seeking to drive away deep rooted dreed
003803_3250_000018 and on his head a steel cap he did wear of colour rusty brown but sure and strong and in his hand an huge poleaxe did bear whose steel was iron studded but not long with which he wont to fight to justify his wrong
003803_3250_000019 her name was height detraction and her dwelling was near to envy even her neighbour next a wicked hag and envy self excelling in mischief for herself she only vexed but this same both herself and others eke perplexed
003803_3250_000020 her face was ugly and her mouth distort foaming with poison round about her gills in which her cursed tongue full sharp and short
003803_3250_000021 some clarkes do doubt in their deviceful art whether this heavenly thing whereof i treat to weeten mercy be of justice part or drawn forth from her by divine extreet
003803_3250_000022 then thus replied now sure and by my life too much am i to blame for that fair maid that have her drawn to all this troublous strife through promise to afford her timely aide which by default i have not yet frayed
003803_3250_000023 and then turning unto him and you sir knight said she that taken have this toilsome pain for wretched woman miserable white may you in heaven immortal guerdon gain for so great travel as you do sustain for other mead may hope for none of me to whom nought else but bare life doth remain
003803_3250_000024 would have embraced her with heart entire but she back starting with disdainful ire bade him avaunt and he would unto his lore allured be for prayer nor for meed
003803_3250_000025 therefore she used often to resort to common haunts and companies frequent to hark what any one did good report to blot the same with blame or rest in wicked sort
003803_3250_000026 thereto he had great skill in single fight his face was ugly and his countenance stern that could have frayed one with the very sight and gaped like a gulf when he did gerne that whether man or monster one could scarce discern
003803_3250_000027 now rise again at this your joyous sight already seems that fortunes headlong wheels begins to turn and some to shine more bright then it was want through comfort of this noble knight
003803_3250_000028 and now he hath to her prefixed a day by which if that no champion do appear which will her cause in battailous array against him justify and prove her clear of all those crimes that he against her doth rear she death shall by
003803_3250_000029 which when the prince heard tell his heart gan earn for great desire that monster to assay and prayed the place of her abode to learn which being showed he gan himself straight way there to address and his bright shield display
003803_3250_000030 for what so ever good by any said or done she heard she would straightways invent how to deprave or slanderously upbraid or to misconstrue of a man's intent and turn to ill the thing that well was meant
003803_3250_000031 but witness unto me ye heavens that know how clear i am from blame of this upbraid for ye into like thraldome me did throw and kept from accomplishing the faith which i did owe
003803_3250_000032 so much more than is that of power and art that seeks to save the subject of her skill yet never doth from doom of right depart as it is greater praise to save than spill and better to reform than to cut off the ill
003803_3250_000033 whereof when news was to that tyrant brought how that the ladie beige now had found a champion that had with his champion fought and laid his senefchall low on the ground
003803_3250_000034 for if that virtu be of so great might which from just verdict will for nothing start but to preserve in violated right oft spills the principal to save the part
003803_3250_000035 and eke himself did threaten to confound began to burn in rage and freeze in fear doubting sod end of principle on sound yet simply heard but one that did appear he did himself encourage and take better cheer
003803_3250_000036 horrible hideous and of hellish race born of the brooding of echidna face or other like infernal furies kind for of a maid she had the outward face to hide the horror which did lurk behind the better to beguile whom she so fond to find
003803_3250_000037 whom they by slights allured and to their purpose led such were these hags and so unhandsome dressed who when they nigh approaching had espied sir artegall returned from his late quest they both arose and at him loudly cried
003803_3250_000038 unto a stranger's love so lightly placed for gifts of gold or any worldly glee to leave the love that ye before embraced and let your fame with falsehood be defaced
003803_3250_000039 he day and night doth ward both far and wide that none can there arrive without an host to her he deems already but a damned ghost
003803_3250_000040 so backward he at once with him did wend though as they rode together on their way a rout of people they before them kend flocking together in confused array as if that there were some tumultuous affray
003803_3250_000041 appeared like asps sting that closely kills or cruelly does wound whom so she wills a distaffe in her other hand she held upon the which she little spins but spills and fains to weave false tales and leasings bad
003803_3250_000042 he will not bide the danger of such dread but strikes his sails and vereth his mainsheet and lends unto it leave the empty air to beat
003803_3250_000043 and huge great beast it was when it in length was stretched forth that nigh filled all the place and seemed to be of infinite great strength
003803_3250_000044 this well l wrote that fare she is as great and meriteth to have as high a place sit in the almighties everlasting seat she first was bred and borne of heavenly race from thence poured down on men by influence of grace
003803_3250_000045 how they might make him into mischief fall for freeing from their snares irena thrall besides unto themselves they gotten had a monster which the blatant beast men call a dreadful fiend of gods and men
003803_3250_000046 which cruel outrage when as artegall did well advise thenceforth with weary heed he shunned his strokes wherever they did fall and way did give unto their graceful speed as when a skillful mariner doth reed a storm approaching that doth peril threat
003803_3250_000047 to throw amongst the good which others had just brought these two now had themselves combined in one and linked together against sir artegally for whom they waited as his mortal phone
003803_3250_000048 to which as they approached the cause to know they saw a knight in dangerous distress of a rude route him chasing to and fro
003803_3250_000049 who then can thee mercilla thoroughly praise that herein dost all earthly princes pass what heavenly muse shall thy great honour raise up to the skies whence first derived it was
003803_3250_000050 now turn again sir artegall then said for if i live till those ten days have end assure yourself sir knight she shall have aid though i this dearest life for her do spend
003803_3250_000051 with so foul blame as breach of faith once plight or change of love for any worlds delight is ought on earth so precious or so dear as praise and honour
003803_3250_000052 but with such force and fury violent the tyrant thundered his thick blows so fast that through the iron walls their way they rent and even to the vital parts they passed ne ought could them endure but all they cleft or brassed
003803_3250_000053 and her long tail and feathers strongly shook that all the temple did with terror fill yet him nought terrified that feared nothing ill
003803_3250_000054 and purchase it to us with spear and shield and if all fail yet farewell open field the earth to all her creatures lodging lends with such his cheerful speeches he doth wield her mind so well that to his will she bends and binding up her locks and weeds forth with him wins
003803_3250_000055 ne'ertheless said he dear lady with me go someplace shall us receive and harbour yield if not we will it force maugre your foe
003803_3250_000056 gainst which the pallid death finds no defense but all in vain their numbers are so great that naught may boot to banish them from thence for soon as he their outrage back doth beat they turn afresh and oft renew their former threat
003803_3250_000057 shut up her haven marred her merchants' trade robbed her people that full rich had been and in her neck a castle huge had made the which did her command without needing persuade
003803_3250_000058 but that some life remained secretly and as he passed afore withouten dread bit him behind that long the mark was to be read then the other coming near began him revile and foully rail with all she could invent
003803_3250_000059 but by her tempered without grief or gall till strong constraint did her thereto enforce and yet even then ruining her willful fall with more then needful natural remorse and yielding the last honour to her wretched coarse
003803_3250_000060 striving long time in vain it to withstand yet glad at last to make most base submission and life enjoy for any composition so now he hath new laws and orders new imposed on it with many a hard condition
003803_3250_000061 and now they do so sharply him assay that they his shield in pieces battered have and forced him to throw it quite away fro dangers dread his doubtful life to save
003803_3250_000062 but turn we now to noble artegall who having left mercilla straight way went on his first quest the which him forth did call
003803_3250_000063 much more it praised was of those two knights the noble prince and righteous artegall when they had seen and heard her doom arights against duessa damned by them all
003803_3250_000064 she coming forth when as she first beheld the armed prince with shield so blazing bright her ready to assail was greatly quelled and much dismayed with that dismayful sight that back she would have turned for great affright
003803_3250_000065 much was the lady in her gentle mind abashed at this rebuke that bit her near ne ought to answer there unto did find but hanging down her head with heavy cheer stood long amazed as she amated weer
003803_3250_000066 the prince stayed not his answer to devise but opening straight the spar forth to him came full nobly mounted in right warlike wise and asked him
003803_3250_000067 saying that he had with unmanly guile and foul abusion both his honour blent and that bright sword the sword of justice lent had stained with reproachful cruelty in guiltless blood of many an innocent
003803_3250_000068 that the gore blood thence gushing grievously did underneath him like a pond appear and all his armor did with purple dye thereat he brayed loud and yelled dreadfully
003803_3250_000069 that sought with lawless power him to oppress and bring in bondage of their brutishness and far away amid their rakehell bands they spied a lady left all succourless crying and holding up her wretched hands to him for aid
003803_3250_000070 and now on earth itself enlarged has from the utmost brink of the armericke shore unto the margent of the molucas those nations farre thy justice doe adore but thine owne people doe thy mercy prayse much more
003803_3250_000071 and eagle's wings for scope and speediness that nothing may escape her reaching might whereto she ever lifts to make her hardy flight
003803_3250_000072 so also did this monster use like slight to many a one which came into her school whom she did put to death deceived like a fools
003803_3250_000073 the other held a snake with venom fraught on which he fed and gnawed hungrily as if that long she had not eaten ought that round about her jaws one might descry the bloody gore and poison dropping loathsomely
003803_3250_000074 but yet old sergis did so well him pain that from closest friends that dar'd not to appear he did all things purvay which for them needful were.
003803_3250_000075 unto that lady where he her had lore and her gan cheare with what she there had viewed and what she had not seen within unto her showed
003803_3250_000076 during all which those knights continued there both doing and receiving courtesies of that great lady who with goodly cheer them entertained fit for their dignities
003803_3250_000077 much like in foulness and deformity unto that monster whom the theban knight the father of that fatal progeny made kill herself for very hearts despite that he had read her riddle which no wight could ever loose but suffered deadly duel
003803_3250_000078 yet when as fit advantage he did spy the whiles the cursed felon high did rear his cruel hand to smite him mortally under his stroke he to him stepping near right in the flank him stroke with deadly drear
003803_3250_000079 if that he were the same who all that wrong unto that woeful dame so long had done and from her native land exiled her that all the world fake shame he boldly answered him he there did stand that would his doings justify with his own hand
003803_3250_000080 but belge with her sons prostrated low before his feet in all that peoples sight 'mongst joys mixing some tears 'mongst wele some woe him thus bespake oh most redoubted knight the which hast me of all most wretched white that earst was dead restored to life again
003803_3250_000081 so did the faerie knight himself abeare and stouped oft his head from shame to shield no shame to stoupe ones head more high to rear and much to gaine and little for to yield so stoutest knights do oftentimes in field
003803_3250_000082 long while he tugged and strove to get it out and all his power applied thereunto that he therewith the knight drew all about nonetheless for all that ever he could do his axe he could not from his shield undo
003803_3250_000083 though with her huge long tail she at him struck that made him stagger and stand half aghast with trembling joints as he for terror shook who naught was terrified but greater courage
003803_3250_000084 who for like cause faire beige did opprese and right and wrong most cruelly confound and so be now grantorto who no less then all the rest burst out to all outrageousness
003803_3250_000085 that the bold prince was forced foot to give to his first rage and yield to his despite the wildest of him so dreadfully he drive that seemed a marble rock asunder could have rive
003803_3250_000086 as for grandtorto him with treachery and trains having surprised he foully did to die there too the blatant beast by them set on at him began aloud to bark and bay with bitter rage and fell contention
003803_3250_000087 that all the woods and rocks nigh to that way began to quake and tremble with dismay and all the air rebellowed again so dreadfully his hundred tongues did bray and evermore those hags themselves did pain to sharpen him
003803_3250_000088 with thus aloud she gan to bray and yell and foul blasphemous speeches forth did cast and bitter curses horrible to tell that even the temple wherein she was plast did quake to hear and nigh asunder breast
003803_3250_000089 all be that it most safety to him gave and much did magnify his noble name for from the day that he thus did it leave amongst all knights he blotted was with blame and counted but a recreant knight with endless shame
003803_3250_000090 yet the huge stroke which he before intended kept on his course as he did it direct and with such monstrous poise adown descended that seemed naught could him from death protect
003803_3250_000091 there eke he placed a strong garrisone and set a senechall of dreaded might that by his power oppressed every one and vanquished all ventrous knights in fight
003831_3095_000000 and your brown face that's full of pity and wise flushed suddenly the white godhead in new fear intolerably so struggling and so shamed most holy and far if you'd come all too near
003831_3095_000001 if earth had seen earth's lordliest wild limbs tamed shaken and trapped and shivering for my touch myself should i have slain or that foul you but this the strange gods who had given so much
003831_3223_000000 she drew me softly nigh her chair my head upon her knees to lay with cool hands that caressed my hair she sat with hands as if to bless and looked with grave ethereal eyes ensouled by ancient quietness a gentle priestess of the wise
003831_3223_000001 the dim and silver end of day scarce glimmered through the little room and all my sins were told i said such things to her who knew not sin-the sharp ache throbbing in my head the fever running high within
003831_3223_000002 i touched with pain her purity sin's darker sense i could not bring my soul was black as night to me to her i was a wounded thing i needed love no words could say
003831_3672_000000 there's such a thing as dwelling on the thought ourselves have nursed and with scorn and courage telling the world to do its worst we'll not let its follies grieve us we'll just take them as they come
003831_3672_000001 and then every day will leave us a merry laugh for home when we've left each friend and brother when we're parted wide and far we will think of one another as even better than we are every glorious sight above us every pleasant sight beneath we'll connect with those that love us
003831_3672_000002 whom we truly love till death in the evening when we're sitting by the fire perchance alone then shall heart with warm heart meeting give responsive tone for tone we can burst the bonds which chain us which cold human hands have wrought
003831_3672_000003 and where none shall dare restrain us we can meet again in thought so there's no use in weeping bear a cheerful spirit still never doubt that fate is keeping future good for present ill
003986_2329_000000 act to intend to strike an internal or exterior one twelve acts of discourse are a sort of mixture of the two external acts which are no ways material nor attended
003986_2329_000001 the general tendency of an act is more or less pernicious according to the sum total of its consequences that is according to the difference between the sum of such as are good and the sum of such as are evil
003986_2329_000002 with any consequences any farther than as they serve to express the existence of internal ones to speak to another to strike to write to him to strike to make signs to him to strike are all so many acts of discourse
003986_2329_000003 twenty-one so much with regard to acts considered in themselves we come now to speak of the circumstances with which they may have been accompanied
003986_2329_000004 that men may be aware of the ambiguity of language and neither harass themselves with unsolvable doubts nor one another with interminable disputes
003986_2329_000005 three it is to be observed that here as well as henceforward wherever consequences are spoken of such only are meant as are material
003986_2329_000006 has not yet been communicated to any such foreign body thus as soon as a man has lifted up his hand to strike the act he performs in striking you is in its commencement as soon as his hand has reached you it is in its termination
003986_2329_000007 these we shall have occasion to distinguish hereafter by the name of criminative circumstances full note c b one title korean circumstances in the foot note
003986_2329_000008 twenty-three we have already had occasion to make mention for a moment of the consequences of an act these were distinguished into material and immaterial in like manner may the circumstances of it be distinguished
003986_2329_000009 on which the effects of it can be material it may be said to be in its termination or to be in the last stage of its progress as soon as the motion or impulse has been communicated to some such foreign body
003986_2329_000010 it may be said to be in the middle or intermediate stage or stages of its progress while the motion having passed from the person of the agent
003986_2329_000011 to the production of its consequences and in conjunction with the act are brought into view by the name by which it stands distinguished
003986_2329_000012 circumstances it bears relation to the consequences a circumstance may be said to be material when it bears a visible relation in point of causality to the consequences immaterial when it bears no such visible relation
003986_2329_000013 of acts with their particular circumstances with which we shall have to do in the body of the work an act of some sort or other is necessarily included in the notion of every offense
003986_2329_000014 now materiality is a relative term applied to the consequences of an act it bore relation to pain and pleasure applied to the
003986_2329_000015 together with this act under the notion of the same offense are included certain circumstances which circumstances enter into the essence of the offense contribute by their conjunct influence
003986_2329_000016 the perceptive faculty is susceptible of three states consciousness unconsciousness and false consciousness consciousness when the party believes precisely those circumstances and no others to subsist
003986_2329_000017 is the act be the motion of a body which is separated from the person of the agent before it reaches the object it may be said during that interval to be in its intermediate progress full note or in this migration or in transtitude
003986_2329_000018 an act of the intransitive kind may be said to be in its commencement when the motion or impulse is as yet confined to the member or organ in which it originated and has not yet been communicated to any member or organ
003986_2329_000019 which really do subsist unconsciousness when he fails of perceiving certain circumstances to subsist which however do subsist
003986_2329_000020 where the circumstance in question and the event in question without being either of them instrumental in the production of the other are related each of them to some common object which has been concerned in the production of them both
003986_2329_000021 in the way of derivation when it is of the number of the events to the production of which that in question has been contributory in the way of collateral connexion
003986_2329_000022 bestow according to the value they bear in that capacity upon the circumstances to which they owe their birth the appellation of exculpative
003986_2329_000023 other circumstances again entering into combination with the act and the former set of circumstances are productive of still farther consequences these additional consequences if they are of the beneficial kind
003986_2329_000024 false consciousness where he believes or imagines certain circumstances to subsist which in truth do not subsist
003986_2329_000025 that is distinguishable from the former it may be said to be in its termination as soon as it has been applied to any other part of the same person
003986_2329_000026 of the consequences of any act the multitude and the variety must needs be infinite but such of them only as are material are worth regarding
003986_2329_000027 and with the act respectively in the way of derivation the consequences of the modified offense with the criminative exculpative and extenuative circumstances respectively
003986_2329_000028 what regards the act and the circumstances will be the subject of the present chapter what regards the intention and consciousness that of the two succeeding
003986_2329_000029 an example may be of use in the year sixteen twenty eight villiers duke of buckingham favourited and the minister of a charles the first of england received a wound and died the man who gave it him was one felton
003986_2329_000030 the criminative are connected with the consequences of the original offense in the way of production with the act and with one another in the way of conjunct influence the consequences of the original offense with them
003986_2329_000031 thus where a man poisons himself while he is lifting up the poison to his mouth the act is in its commencement
003986_2329_000032 in respect of the consequences of the modified act or offense in the way of conjunct influence lastly whatever circumstances can be seen to be connected with the consequences of the offense
003986_2329_000033 in the crown of the hat were found scraps of paper with sentences expressive of the purpose he was come upon here then suppose the event in question is the wound received by buckingham
003986_2329_000034 by positive are meant such as consist in motion or exertion by negative such as consist in keeping at rest that is in forbearing to move or exert oneself in such and such circumstances thus to strike is a positive act
003986_2329_000035 felton's drawing out his knife his making his way into the chamber his going down to portsmouth his conceiving an indignation at the idea of buckingham's administration that administration itself
003986_2329_000036 seven there are also two other articles on which the general tendency of an act depends and on that as well as on other accounts
003986_2329_000037 eight acts may be distinguished in several ways for several purposes they may be distinguished in the first place into positive and negative
003986_2329_000038 whether directly in the way of derivation or obliquely in the way of collateral affinity to wit in virtue of its being connected in the way of derivation with some of the circumstances with which they stand connected in the same manner
003986_2329_000039 sixteen in the third place acts may be distinguished into transient and continued thus to strike is a transient act to lean a continued one to buy a transient act to keep in one's possession a continued one
003986_2329_000040 a continued act when there are no such intervals thus to lean is continued act to keep striking a repetition of acts
003986_2329_000041 in the way also of derivation these different sets of circumstances with the consequences of the modified act or offense in the way of production and with one another
003986_2329_000042 bear a material relation to the offense in the way of evidence they may accordingly be styled evidentiary circumstances and may become of use by being held forth upon occasion
003986_2329_000043 engaged in conversation with a number of people round him got close to him drew a knife and stabbed him in the effort the assassin's hat fell off which was found soon after and upon searching him the bloody knife
003986_2329_000044 who exasperated at the maladministration of which that minister was accused went down from london to portsmouth where buckingham happened then to be made his way into his antechamber and finding him busily
003986_2329_000045 seventeen use strictness of speech there is a difference between a continued act and a repetition of acts it is a repetition of acts when there are intervals filled up by acts of different natures
003986_2329_000046 were circumstances related to the circumstances of felton's making his way into the room going down to portsmouth and so forth in the way of conjunct influence
003986_2329_000047 eighteen there is a difference again between a repetition of acts and a habit or practice the term repetition of acts may be employed let the acts in question be separated by ever such short intervals
003986_2329_000048 it is necessary that such sittings themselves be frequently repeated every habit is a repetition of acts or to speak more strictly when a man has frequently repeated such and such acts after considerable intervals he is said to have
003986_2329_000049 and let the sum total of them occupy ever so short a space of time the term habit is not employed but when the acts in question are supposed to be separated by long-continued intervals
003986_2329_000050 the finding of the hat upon the ground the finding the sentences in the hat and the writing them so many circumstances related to it in the way of collateral connection and the situation and conversations of the people about buckingham
003986_2329_000051 inasmuch as they contributed in common to the event of buckingham's receiving the wound by preventing him from putting himself upon his guard upon the first appearance of the intruder
003986_2329_000052 and the sum total of them to occupy a considerable space of time it is not for instance the drinking ever so many times nor ever so much at a time in the course of the same sitting that it will constitute a habit of drunkenness
003986_2329_000053 charles's appointing such a minister and so on higher and higher without end are so many circumstances related to the event of buckingham's receiving the wound
003986_2329_000054 not to strike on a certain occasion a negative one positive acts are styled also acts of commission negative
003986_2329_000055 in the way of causation or production the bloodiness of the knife a circumstance related to the same event in the way of derivation
003986_2329_000056 nineteen force acts may be distinguished into indivisible and divisible indivisible acts are merely imaginary they may be easily conceived but can never be known to be exemplified such as are divisible may be so with regard either to matter or to
003986_2329_000057 now among the consequences of an act be they what they may such only by one who views them in the capacity of a legislator can be said to be material
003986_2329_000058 when the motion is communicated from the person of the agent to some foreign body that is to such a foreign body on which the effects of it are considered as being material
003986_2329_000059 it can never be known whether it is beneficial or indifferent or mischievous in some circumstances even to kill a man may be a beneficial act in others to set food before him may be a pernicious one
003986_2329_000060 which though numerous and heterogeneous derive a sort of unity from the relation they bear to some common design or end such as the act of giving a dinner the act of maintaining a child the act of exhibiting a triumph
003986_2329_000061 when they imported the negation of such or such a particular mode of agency for instance not to strike such a person or such a thing or in such a direction ten
003986_2329_000062 nine such acts again as are negative may either be absolutely so or relatively absolutely when they import the negation of all positive agency whatsoever for instance not to strike at all relatively
003986_2329_000063 fifth acts may be distinguished into simple and complex simple such as the act of striking the act of leaning or the act of drinking above instanced complex consisting each of a multitude of simple acts
003986_2329_000064 to motion an act indivisible with regard to matter is the motion or rest of one single atom of matter an act indivisible with regard to motion is the motion of any body from one single atom of space to the next to it
003986_2329_000065 the act of bearing arms the act of holding a court and so forth twenty it has been every now and then made a question what it is in such a case that constitutes one act where one act has ended and another act has begun
003986_2329_000066 and a footnote twenty-six these several relations do not all of them attach upon an event with equal certainty in the first place it is plain indeed that every event
003986_2329_000067 and again at eight minutes after twelve is it one beating or several you beat one man and instantly in the same breath you beat another
003986_2329_000068 eleven in the second place acts may be distinguished into external and internal by external are meant corporal acts
003986_2329_000069 it is only a very small number that can be discovered by the utmost exertion of the human faculties it is a still smaller number that ever actually do attract our notice
003986_2329_000070 thus to forbear or omit to bring food to a person in certain circumstances is signified by the single and positive term to starve
003986_2329_000071 one the business of government is to promote the happiness of the society by punishing and rewarding that part of its business which consists in punishing is more particularly the subject of penal law
003986_2329_000072 it must of course have a still greater multitude of circumstances related to it in the way of collateral connexion but it does not appear necessary that every event should have circumstances related to it in the way of derivation
003986_2329_000073 must have some circumstance or other and in truth an indefinite multitude of circumstances related to it in the way of production
003986_2329_000074 nor therefore that it should have any related to it in the way of conjunct influence but of the circumstances of all kinds which actually do attach upon an event
003986_2329_000075 these questions it is now evident may frequently be answered with equal propriety in opposite ways and if there be any occasions on which they can be answered only in one way the answer will depend upon the nature of the occasion
003986_2329_000076 and the purpose for which the question is proposed a man is wounded in two fingers at one stroke is it one wound or several a man is beaten at twelve o'clock
003986_2329_000077 it is to be observed that the nature of the act whether positive or negative is not to be determined immediately by the form of the discourse made use of
003986_2329_000078 to express it an act which is positive in its nature may be characterized by a negative expression thus not to be at rest is as much as to say to move so also an act which is negative in its nature may be characterized by a positive expression
003986_2329_000079 in proportion as an act tends to disturb that happiness in proportion as the tendency of it is pernicious will be the demand it creates for punishment what happiness consists of we have already seen enjoyment of pleasures security from pains two
003986_2329_000080 is this one beating or several in any of these cases it may be one perhaps as to some purposes and several as to others these examples are given
003986_2329_000081 as where a man runs against you or throws water in your face acts may be called intransitive when the motion is communicated to no other body on which the
003986_2329_000082 acts of the body by internal mental acts acts of the mind thus to strike is an external or exterior footnote an exterior act is also called by lawyers overt end of footnote
003986_2329_000083 the effects of it are regarded as material than some part of the same person in whom it originated as where a man runs or washes himself
003986_2329_000084 whatsoever take any act whatsoever there is nothing in the nature of things that excludes any imaginable object from being a circumstance to it
003986_2329_000085 were intention out of the question but such also as depend upon the connection there may be between these first mentioned consequences and the intention
003986_2329_000086 for it is also to be observed that into the account of the consequences of the act are to be taken not such only as might have ensued
004293_2646_000000 till there arose all the beauty of fairy tales and shiny myths and singing legends now anyone who desires to see in literature the most that there is in it
004293_2646_000001 and are certainly closely connected and yet the one came to highly perfected forms long long ago while the other is properly speaking very young and for all that the older is the handmaid of the younger
004293_2646_000002 hope desire thought all that battled through the living figures turned to dust and ashes long ago train your ears to hear the song of it it helps to feel what the writer felt and after that read critically with one eye on the page so to speak
004293_2646_000003 does it mean that in our day there is nothing interesting in good health in well ordered lives or does it mean that the rarest thing in the world is the so called normal man whom tacit consent assumes to be the commonest
004293_2646_000004 and since the thing is here and is a mighty creation and very indicative of how the human brain in large section work since we've got to put up with it anyway we may as well in revenge for its many inconveniences get what little satisfaction we can out
004293_2646_000005 and now turns in to wreak frightful wreck upon the mind itself at any rate the fact is that we have some very curious appearances in the mirror just now madmen explaining their own madness diseased men picking apart their own diseases perverted men analyzing their own perversions anything everything but sane and
004293_2646_000006 and if you look into the still waters of some summer pool or mountain rain cup the image there almost as sharp lined as that in your polished glass except for the vague tremor that seems to move under the water rather than on its surface and suggest an ethereal something missing in the drawing room shadow
004293_2646_000007 of the general attitude of biographers and readers of biography as bosworth's life of johnson except in so far as it indicates that the great face in the glass is changing it is rather the type of what biography is becoming than what it has been or is there are two divisions of literature which are generally named in one breath
004293_2646_000008 and it becomes evident that love and winsomeness are usurping the kingdom of power and fear through all we are compelled to observe one constant tendency of the human mind
004293_2646_000009 yet that vision conjured in the water depth is you surely you nay even more that first image of you you perceived wheft as a child you danced in the firelit and saw a misshapen darkness rising and falling along the wall in teasing mockery
004293_2646_000010 and i find it one of the most delightful little side amusements of wandering through the field of old literature while in the critical vein to stray around among the old stumps and crooked cowpaths of english spelling
004293_2646_000011 this coldness and quietness sound the doom of poetry a people which shall be fully permeated with the spirit and word of science will never conceive great poems
004293_2646_000012 think of the ages and ages that men saw the demon electricity riding the air think that even now they do not know what he is and yet he played mightily with their daily lives for all those ages think how this staring savage was put face to face with world games which were spun and tossed around him
004293_2646_000013 dewdrops are no more the jewels of the fairies they are the produce of condensation under given atmospheric conditions singing stones are not the prisons of punished spirits but problems in acoustics
004293_2646_000014 any such a reader i say must find among its most attractive pages the stories of early superstitions the fictions of fear the struggles of the race childs intelligence with overlooming problems
004293_2646_000015 it is in fact this imaginative faculty which has forerun the accomplishments of science and while under the influence of practical experiment and the extension of knowledge such dreams have passed away this much remains and will long long remain in humankind covered over and shamefacedly concealed as much as may be
004293_2646_000016 and swam on land and ate air and thrived in deserts and walked through seas and gathered roses off icebergs and collected frozen dew off the trails of sunbeams dispersed mountains with mustard seeds of faith and climbed into solid caves under the rainbow did everything which was impossible for them to do
004293_2646_000017 a mirror maze is literature wherein man sees all faces of himself lengthened here widened there distorted in another place restored again to due proportion
004293_2646_000018 it is a nebulous body revolving in an elliptical orbit of great elongation love love love will not be the wound of cupid but the manifestation of universal reproductive instincts
004293_2646_000019 the people of the most highly evolved scientific and mechanical age taking especial delight in psychic abnormalities and morbidities whereby the most utterly unreasonable fictive creation becomes the greatest center of curiosity and attraction to the children of reason
004293_2646_000020 who desires to read not merely for the absorption of the moment but for the sake of permanent impression who wishes to have an idea of man not only as he is now but through the whole articulate record of his existence who would know the thoughts of his infancy and the connected course of his development
004293_2646_000021 that men perpetually conceive themselves as chrysalid heroes and wonder workers and under strain of occasion this element crops out in their actions making them do all manner of curious things which the standard setters of realism will declare utterly illogical and impossible
004293_2646_000022 and the other on reflection in the mirror looking for the mind behind the work the things which interested the author and those he wrote for third to suggest inquiry into the curious paradox
004293_2646_000023 the desire to free itself from its own conditions to be what it is not to represent itself as something beyond its powers of accomplishment in their minds men have wings and breathe in water
004293_2646_000024 literature the mirror of man by volcheri declare perhaps i had better say the mirror reflection the reflection of all that he has been and is the hinting fore flashing of something of what he may become
004293_2646_000025 for then you will realise that every man is burial house full of dead man's ghosts and the ghosts of very very ancient days are there forever whispering in an ancient ancient tongue of ancient passions and desires
004293_2646_000026 the exaggeratists the whatever you call them express what i believe to be a very permanent characteristic of humankind as evidenced in all the traces of its work i think they probably give quite as true reflections of man's
004293_2646_000027 as the present favorites these early literatures most of which have of course been lost were the embryos of our more imposing creations and it is a pleasant and an instructive thing to follow the unfolding of monster tales
004293_2646_000028 but i wish now to maintain that some very lowly forms of written expression must be included in literature always remembering that i am seeking the complete composite of man's soul here then i include in literature beside what i have spoken on not only in standard novels and stories and sketches and travels and magazine essays of all sorts
004293_2646_000029 and prompting many actions with the doer thereof can give himself no accounting for there are two ways of reading these old stories and as one who has gotten pleasure and profit too from both
004293_2646_000030 we have the benefits of word science is still balking here but not far long we shall soon have madmen turned inside out and their madness painstakingly reduced to so-and-so many excessive or deficient nerve vibrations per second then no more of poe's raven
004293_2646_000031 often it is the commonest men who do them i have a fondness for realism myself at least i have a very wicked feeling towards what is called symbolism and various other things which i don't understand but as the unrealists
004293_2646_000032 in so considering it let it be understood that i speak of no particular form of literature but the entire body of a people's expressed thought preserved either traditionally in writing or in print
004293_2646_000033 are witnessed by the ability to run glibly off the names of the personages in the dramas of ibsen bjomson maeterlinck hauptmann or shaw in the novels of gorki andreyev tolstoy zola maupassant
004293_2646_000034 history philosophy science are rather frowning names stern second cousins as it were to the beguiling companions of their pleasant leisure hours not legitimately literature biography well depends on who writes it
004293_2646_000035 and then turn to the record of those pathetic strivings of the frightened child with some tenderness  sym some solemn curiosity to know what men were able to think and feel when they led their lives as in a threatening wonder house where everything was an unknown investing  in crouching hostility
004293_2646_000036 if it can be made so much like a work of fiction that the subject sketched serves this purposes of a fictive hero why then maybe to such talkers about literature evidence of familiarity with it and little to have one's opinions thereon asked and respected
004293_2646_000037 and compelled by the nature of his own activity to try to find an explanation to them think that most of us if we were not the inheritor of the ages that have passed since then should be staggered and out breathed even now by all these lights and forms through which we move
004293_2646_000038 but the poorest paltriest dime novel detective story daily newspaper report baseball game account and splash advertisement oh what a charming picture of ourselves we see therein
004293_2646_000039 at ibsen's brand i have said that i intend to indicate a wider concept of literature than that generally allowed so far i have not done it at least all that i have dealt with is usually mentioned in works on literature
004293_2646_000040 no the great poems of the world have been produced they have sung their song and gone their way  imagination remains to us but weakened mixed tamed calmed verses we shall have and many fragments fragments of beauty and power but never again the thunder roll of the mighty early song
004293_2646_000041 and never be too sure you know just how men will act or try to act under any conditions if you have not read the record of what they have thought and fancied and done and after you have read it oh then you will never be sure you know
004293_2646_000042 great religious literatures to compare them and see how the same few simple figures either transplanted or spontaneously produced at different points evolved into all manner of creators
004293_2646_000043 redeemers and miracles in their various altered habitats no one can so thoroughly appreciate what is in the face of a man turned upward in prayer as who has followed the evolution of the black monster op to that impersonal conception of god
004293_2646_000044 the majority of lightly thinking fairly read people who make use of the word literature rather easily do so with a very indistinct idea of its content to them it usually means a certain limited form of human  expression chiefly works of the imagination poetry drama the various forms of the novel
004293_2646_000045 and they allow other modes to have been literature in the past as a sort of kindly concession to the past a blanket indulgence to its unevolved state at present however no indulgences are allowed whatever is not the mode is
004293_2646_000046 prettily called by quakers the inner light fairytales on the other hand have evolved into allegories and dramas first the dramas of the sky now the dramas of the earth tales of sexual exploits have become novels
004293_2646_000047 you will find that half the beauty and the farce of old-time legend lies in the bare sound of it far far more is it dependent on the voice than any modern writings are and surely the reason is simple enough
004293_2646_000048 at least in their ordinary conversation if you press them they will dubiously admit that the field may be extended but they are also possessed of the notion that only one particular mode even of fiction is in fact the genuine thing that this mode has not always been in the vogue they are aware
004293_2646_000049 hardy and the dozen or so of lesser lights who revolve with these through the cycle of the magazine issues not only do these same people thus limit the field of literature
004293_2646_000050 and a faithful one mind you think what a speaking likeness of ourselves was the report of national international racial importance the jeffries johnson fight nay i am not laughing the people of the future are going to look back at the record a thousand
004293_2646_000051 that everybody while outwardly wearing a mask of reputable common sense is within a raging conglomeration of psychic elements that hurl themselves on one another like hissing flames
004293_2646_000052 now and say this is what interested men in the year nineteen ten i wonder which will appear most ludicrous then bishop wilfred in juxtaposition with a common start or the destiny of the white race put in jeopardy by a pugilistic contest between one white and one black man
004293_2646_000053 and to become the record of what people have done in their more amiable moments the record of the conquests of peace how men have lived and labored dug and built hewn and cleared gardened and reforest
004293_2646_000054 novelettes short stories sketches a many expression a countenance of man but the old heroic legend and the hero is always the next born after the monster in the far back dawn days is the lineal progenitor of history
004293_2646_000055 if you are where you will not annoy anybody let the words sing themselves over your lips and let they sung themselves over the lips of people who were dead so long ago
004293_2646_000056 much pleasure is to be derived from seeing what old words grew together and made new ones what syllables or letters got lopped off or twisted how silent letters became silent and why from what older language is planted
004293_2646_000057 in their strange faraway homes with their vanished surroundings sung themselves just as the wind sung through the echoing forests and murmured back from the rocks just as the songs slipped out of the birds throats
004293_2646_000058 it is not literature at all when confronted by the very great names of the past which they neither consign to oblivion nor patronize by toleration for their undeveloped condition names which are names for all ages
004293_2646_000059 oh the bated breath the expectant eyes the inbitten lip the taut muscles the riveted attention of hundreds of thousands of people watching the great scientific combat i wonder whether the year three thousand will admire it more or less than the song of beowulf
004293_2646_000060 i mean the literatures of philosophy and science philosophy is simply the coordination of the sciences the formulation of the general and related principles deduced from the collection of orderly arrangement of the facts of existence yet man had rich literatures in philosophy
004293_2646_000061 that too was surely an image of you an image of interception not of reflection a blur a vacancy a horror from which you fled shrieking to your mother's arms and yet it was the distorted outline of you
004293_2646_000062 i would recommend them both to be used the first way is to read yourself backward into it as much as possible do not be a critic on first reading put the critic asleep let yourself seem to believe it as did the people who wrote it read it aloud
004293_2646_000063 for it was not right in its creation ancient literature addressed itself to the ear always while modern literature speaks to the eye if once you can get your ears washing with the sounds of the old language as with the washing of the seas when you sit on the beach
004293_2646_000064 does such a type exist of course he exists he does not exist he must exist he cannot exist under such conditions there are no such conditions but be reasonable you have not been in all places and you cannot say there may not be such conditions supposing alright i'll give you the conditions
004293_2646_000065 organized and cooperated manufactured and used educated and amused themselves those of us who aspire to become more or less suggesters of social chance are greatly at a loss
004293_2646_000066 i would not discourage any comrade of mine in the social struggle but sometimes it is a wholesome thing to reconsider our size a word in defense of the silly story
004293_2646_000067 when you are ready for such rereading then be as critical as you please which does not necessarily mean be condemnatory it means rather take notice of all generals and particulars and question them
004293_2646_000068 let us not forget that lowly minds have lowly needs and the mass of minds are lowly and have a right to such gratification as is not beyond their comprehension so long as i do not have to read
004293_2646_000069 not so much in the direct expression of their opinions either as in the choice of what they thought it worthwhile to try to stamp perpetuity upon when we read in the anglo-saxon chronicle these items which are characteristic of the whole
004293_2646_000070 or the lapping of the rivers when the bank grass caresses you some idle summer afternoon it will be much easier for you to forget that you are the child of another age and thought
004293_2646_000071 which is i hear you ask which is what they are pleased to call realism if you wish to know how far they are obsessed by this notion go pick yourself a quiet corner in some cafe where light literature readers meet to make comparisons
004293_2646_000072 if we do not know the face of man as reflected in history and i mean as much the reflection of the minds of historians as seen in their histories as the reflection of the minds of others they sought to give
004293_2646_000073 you will begin to luxuriate in fancies and prefigure impossibilities then you will know how it feels to be fancy free loosed from the chain of the possible and once having felt you will also understand better when you reread with other intent
004293_2646_000074 and listen to the comments before very long voices will be getting loud about some character at present stalking across the pages of the magazines or bestirring itself among the latest ton of novel and the dispute will be
004293_2646_000075 yea commercial man has set his image therein let him regard himself when he gets time and the body of our reform literature which really reflects the very best social aspirations of men
004293_2646_000076 speech by speech and action by action till nothing being left each finally subsides somehow each confirmed in his own opinion each convinced that the main purpose of literature realism has either been served or not served by the author under discussion
004293_2646_000077 all the same no man would act so under any conditions i swear l have seen such men impossible what is there impossible about it and the voices get louder and louder as the disputants proceed to pick the character to pieces
004293_2646_000078 and cutha of cymric it reads considerably like a stockraiser's pedigree book the trouble is we have no particular notion of cymric probably if we went back we should find he was the son of somebody but at any rate he had a grandson and the grandson was a king
004293_2646_000079 no author is to be considered worthy of a place unless his works can be at least twisted to fit this conception with some slight refinement of idea in so far as it recognizes the obscurer recesses of the mind as entitled to representation as well as the externals
004293_2646_000080 cutha of cymric and then six hundred and fourteen this year cynqls and cuiehelm fought at bampton and slew two thousand forty-six of the welsh and then six hundred and seventy-eight this year appeared the comet star in august and shone every morning during three months like a sunbeam
004293_2646_000081 you will find that the mitigating influence of civilization knowledge moderation creeping into expression produces flat neutral diluted sounds watery words so to speak long-drawn out and glidingly inoffensive
004293_2646_000082 you will naturally pose yourself the question why is it that the bare sounds of these old stories are so much more vibrating drum-like shrilling at times than any modern song
004293_2646_000083 there are those who have only learned the art of reading at all because of the foolish story and quite in a side way i learned the other day through the grave assertion of a physician that the ability to read even these whereby some little refinement of conception is introduced into the idea of love is one of the restraining influences upon sexual degradation
004293_2646_000084 but which to me are suggestive one of these is the evident delight of the human soul in smut in the older literature these things are either badly set down as law and cursing as occasionally in the bible or they are clothed and mixed with sprightly imaginations as in the tales of boccaccio
004293_2646_000085 common among poor and ignorant young women the face of man revealed in them is therefore not altogether without charm though it may look foolish to us i said there were some appearances in the mirror not generally remarked
004293_2646_000086 to such disputants literature the mirror of man means that only such literature as gives so called absolutely faithful representations of life as it is demonstrably lived is a genuine mirror
004293_2646_000087 you grew familiar with it later amused yourself with it twisted your hands into strange positions to see what curious shapes they would form upon the wall and made whole stories with the shadows
004293_2646_000088 while his knowledge of facts was yet so extreme if limited as hardly to be worth while writing in books about none of the appearances of the man's soul is more interesting than that reflected in the continuous succession of philosophies he has poured out let him who reads them read them always twice first simply to know and grasp what is said
004293_2646_000089 bishop wilfred being driven from his bishopric by king everth two bishops were consecrated in his stead when we read these we have not any very adequate conception of what the anglo-saxon people were doing
004293_2646_000090 in any modem writing remarkable for its strength will be found a preponderance of barbaric yawp as whitman called it fear creates sharp cries the rebound of fear which is bravado produces drum tones roars and growls
004293_2646_000091 those stories i feel quite glad for the sake of those who are not able to want better that such gratification is not denied them i would not wish to frown the silly story out of existence so long as it is a veritable expression of many people's need
004293_2646_000092 and what its relatives are it is much the same pleasure that one gets from trailing around through the narrow crooked streets and senseless meanderings of london city everybody knows it's a foolish way to build a city that all streets should be straight and wide and well-distributed
004293_2646_000093 as before suggested i do not when i speak of literature as the mirror of man have any such twelve by eighteen mirror in view nor the limitation of literature to any one form
004293_2646_000094 it's hardly so interesting as the illogical being who upsets the calculation by becoming neither but something not at all predictable the objects of my lecture then are these
007122_6140_000000 that young woman was busy studying the handsome features of the ingratiating bedroom steward so engrossed was she that she stumbled over the elevated sill of the door from the promenade deck
007122_6140_000001 ooh ooh ooh lord if only i had that last baggageman by the neck he bent forward and back to limber an apparently paralyzed spinal column well
007122_6140_000002 oh i'm sorry miss apologized the steward did you hurt yourself these doors are always troublesome until you get used to them but they are necessary to keep out the water in rough weather the princess was thinking only of the opportunity to open the fateful trunk
007122_6140_000003 my cousin it is impossible he is at madrid where his majesty the king is holding court yes your highness and she went but her inflection showed that she knew herself to be in the right nita was too good a servant to argue with her betters
007122_6140_000004 as the door slammed the top of the trunk was slowly lifted and the battered bleeding face of warren jarvis might have been visible above the iron ridge of its lock bar stiffly he drew himself out of the trunk to blink in the unaccustomed light
007122_6140_000005 it was the voice of a nervous frightened girl not of a royal personage this time just then she heard a knock on the cabin door there was no time for a response quiet be careful she cautioned sotto voce
007122_6140_000006 carlos duke of alva with smiling lips and sinister eyes greeted her with the suave courtesy which was so characteristic of his race and class he typified the worst of the spanish folk even as the young girl did the best
007122_6140_000007 as a keen student to physiognomy the mental attitude of the duke of alva would have been an open book to maria theresa loyal to family and countrymen he was the symbol of her own strata in spain
007122_6140_000008 carlos here how could he be i wonder and the princess fumbled with her keys until she found the right one she opened the trunk with a trembling hand and began to raise the cover a quiver in her voice are you all right mr jarvis
007122_6140_000009 as she hurried to the door she pulled her taut nerves together there on the threshold was her kinsman nita had been right as usual in her sharp way
007122_6140_000010 with white teeth crisp curling black hair and the eyes of sparkling coal shade the duke of alva bowed with that polished grace which had broken many a heart and carried him over many a stretch of thin ice in the courtly adventuring on the continent
007122_6140_000011 carlos exclaimed the princess fair cousin if i but knew you were as pleased as you are surprised at seeing me with the words he advanced and kissed her cold fingertips with old world punctiliousness
007122_6140_000012 you don't anticipate a bad passage steward rather uncertain ma'am at this time of the year and he busied himself adjusting the hand luggage and arranging the chairs
007122_6140_000013 he stumbled across the cabin where he helped himself to a welcome drink of water he tenderly caressed the bruised elbows and breathed hard
007122_6140_000014 yet beneath her gracious forgiveness of and enforced indifference to many things there lurked a latent mistrust which she had never yet defined in practical applicable terms
007122_6140_000015 what are you doing on the mauretania why did you leave spain carlos as he shut the door he smiled and now her intuition warned her of the cunning which lurked behind those pleasantly curving lips
007122_6140_000016 until his efforts with the princess of aragon yet he was too satisfied with bygone results to abandon the time-tried artistries of former victories
007122_6140_000017 first tell me that you are glad to see me i have come many leagues to hear those words maria why why of course i am always glad to see you cousin he simulated a pathetic irony
007122_6140_000018 you say you are always glad to see me-and yet i fear it is not always since my unfortunate quarrel with your brother alas and that has hardened your heart against me
007122_6140_000019 the princess dropped her eyes before the undeniable questioning of his burning glances as she looked away he assured himself that he had scored my brother
007122_6140_000020 the duke was a suitor of the romantic school each phrase was studied each attitude as obviously planned as a military campaign it was a method which had invariably succeeded
007122_6140_000021 ah how i dread telling you i was there a few days before leaving for america i learned unfortunately that despite my very friendly advice he had been prowling about that ridiculous old castle again
007122_6140_000022 with hands stretched tensely against the corners of the trunk he warded off as best he could the shocks of the skilled baggage breakers along the route
007122_6140_000023 in search of the mythical treasure your grandfather is supposed to have secreted there he laughed and the girl instinctively shuddered with a newborn distrust there was no mirth in the sound
007122_6140_000024 chapter six over the sea and far away that journey to the mauretania was never to be forgotten by warren jarvis and yet so weird bruising jumbling and altogether horrible was it that he could never distinctly remember its details
007122_6140_000025 she wished to get rid of him that ominous trunk might contain a dead man for all she knew how did you find me why did you come to america what could have brought me here but love and anxiety for you
007122_6140_000026 you heard nothing more was he well and safe when you left the town he was as well and safe as i would consider any man who was prowling about that castle in a foolhardy way
007122_6140_000027 what do you know of him carlos when did you see him last have you been in seguro two long whistles and the vibration of the great steamship evidenced the beginning of the long voyage the answer to the questions was still more pathetic in cadence
007122_6140_000028 but your location is good you'll find the mauretania as steady as a parish church here is the clothes press ma'am and the other rooms are off there it's quite the finest suite on the boat ma'am the steward looked about ingratiatingly then he turned toward the door
007122_6140_000029 again and again an unexpected twist would bang his throbbing head against the adamantine sides and with a wince a sharp in-drawn breath he would hold himself together for one more bump
007122_6140_000030 the air was stifling yet the foresight of cutting the holes gave him enough oxygen to maintain his senses at last after eons of suffering which reminded him of nothing so much as his initiation into the college fraternity
007122_6140_000031 he felt himself being dragged up the side of the great ocean greyhound more jolts more rolls and bangs and at last with muscles wrenched a swollen forehead and nerves aquiver there was rest
007122_6140_000032 i'm in her cabin at last-and now for a graceful exit he told himself with an enforced jocularity
007122_6140_000033 the love and honored name of a man who would protect and worship you you have wonderful beauty and family rank i have power influence at court and an unconquerable ambition
007122_6140_000034 we strive for it only to obtain the happiness and luxury which it brings can it bring any greater happiness than that which i have so many times laid at your feet
007122_6140_000035 she turned away impatiently and walked toward the cabin porthole oh come carlos the ship is almost in midstream let us go out on deck for one last look at america thank you i can do very well without it he retorted as he sat down upon the trunk
007122_6140_000036 ah i'm most all here he looked down at his twisted cracked patent leather shoes my feet are bent
007122_6140_000037 my dear maria why do you not desist from this silly pursuit of an imaginary treasure what is the value of money we are spaniards not shirt-sleeved mercenary pigs of americans
007122_6140_000038 however the speech and the theatrical delivery of the gifted courtier were wasted effort maria theresa of spain was impervious to the surface sheen she had seen true metal within the past twenty-four hours
007122_6140_000039 nothing which i could not crush had many a man made this speech he would have punctuated its termination with a clenched fist
007122_6140_000040 but the scion of an intriguing aristocracy bared his teeth in a wolf-like smile as he unsheathed his sword-cane an inch or two to snap it back into place with a snarling smile in his drooping eyes
007122_6140_000041 oh carlos you should have been a novelist or a dramatist i much prefer the romantic sky-line of new york harbor to your reminiscence of don quixote the great roar of the turbine vibrated through the ship she advanced to the cabin door and imperiously called to him to follow
007122_6140_000042 but this was no easy task he spent a full half-hour working and prying with the shears against the lock which imprisoned him with indomitable force from the outside of the iron and leathern prison
007122_6140_000043 at last with the aid of an extravagant largesse she was conducted to her staterooms as she entered the parlor of her luxurious suite the first sight which caught her eye was the trunk inverted
007122_6140_000044 in other circumstances this young personage would have been furious at the lack of respect which she had been educated to expect from the throngs of her own country
007122_6140_000045 but today her only anxiety was to find her elusive quarters for the strange cruise to learn whether or not her new knight-errant was alive or dead from the rigors of his escape
007122_6140_000046 mine is the intellect to conceive the heart to dare and the will to complete think what our alliance would mean to us both my dear girl there is nothing which could halt me
007122_6140_000047 from the outer deck of the great turbiner the princess nervously fought her way through the great throng of voyagers and their friends nita was close by her side it seemed impossible to capture a steward who was not busy with the bearing of bouquets and wine baskets
007122_6140_000048 if you want anything maam there is the telephone i'll place your trunk if you please ma'am he started to drag the trunk to the side of the cabin but the princess intervened
007122_6140_000049 i insist i need fresh air we'll be gone ten minutes and grudgingly the duke of alva followed her with a vicious swish of his cane at the unoffending trunk
007122_6140_000050 a duke a castle a treasure well well but the problem is where the devil do i fit in
007122_6140_000051 how soon do we sail very soon and as he spoke there came the stentorian warning all ashore that's going ashore
007122_6140_000052 the printed sign of direction this end up with care was upside down she gasped and looked nervously about to note the expression upon the face of nita
007122_6140_000053 that's all right you may place it later but you might fix it right side up the steward turned it as the girl breathed a sigh of relief i'm so sorry ma'am i hope the contents are not upset i hope not anything else ma'am no not now steward
007122_6140_000054 the call was repeated four times and the voice died away in the distance of the long promenade deck with a bow and a significant glance at the attractive maid the steward finally dragged himself out of the attractive cabin
007122_6140_000055 as he struck a light to inhale the new welcome cheering puffs he looked about his strange surroundings with the old unconquerable jarvis spirit a princess
007122_6140_000056 they'll never get well he sat limply down on the top of the trunk and fumbling in his hip pocket drew forth a bent and battered cigarette case
007122_6140_000057 the princess sank nervously into a chair that is all now nita i have the key to the trunk i will call you when i need you yes your highness
007122_6140_000058 will your highness excuse me if i am mistaken in thinking that i recognized his excellency the duke your exalted cousin among the passengers as we came up the gangplank her highness was distinctly startled but she showed no trace of her emotion to the servant
007122_6430_000000 back do i toss those treasons to thy head with the hell hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise this sword of mine shall give them instant way where they shall rest forever
007122_6430_000001 pray that the right may thrive if ever i return to you again i'll bring you comfort grace go with you sir exit edgar alarum and retreat within
007122_6430_000002 enter a officer edmund is dead my lord that's but a trifle here you lords and noble friends know our intent what comfort to this great decay may come shall be applied
007122_6430_000003 the good years shall devour them flesh and fell ere they shall make us weep we'll see em starve first come exeunt lear and cordelia guarded come hither captain hark take thou this note go follow them to prison
007122_6430_000004 for us we will resign during the life of this old majesty to him our absolute power to edgar and kent you to your rights with boot and such additions as your honours have more than merited
007122_6430_000005 reenter edgar away old man give me thy hand away king lear hath lost he and his daughter ta'en give me thy hand come on no further sir
007122_6430_000006 never o fault revealed myself unto him until some half hour past when i was armed not sure though hoping of this good success i asked his blessing and from first to last told him my pilgrimage
007122_6430_000007 one step i have advanced thee if thou dost as this instructs thee thou dost make thy way to noble fortunes know thou this that men are as the time is to be tender-minded does not become a sword
007122_6430_000008 trumpets speak alarms they fight edmond falls save him save him this is mere practice gloucester
007122_6430_000009 taught me to shift into a madman's rags to assume a semblance that very dogs disdained and in this habit met i my father with his bleeding rings their precious stones new lost became his guide led him begged for him saved him from despair
007122_6430_000010 thy great employment will not bear question either say thou'lt do it or thrive by other means  i'll do it my lord about it and write happy when thy hast done
007122_6430_000011 whose title more to pluck the common bosom on his side and turn our impressed lances in our eyes which do command them with him i sent the queen my reason all the same and they are ready tomorrow or at further space to appear where you shall hold your session
007122_6430_000012 but then finding who 'twas that so endured with his strong arms he fastened on my neck and bellowed out as he'd burst heaven threw him on my father told the most piteous tale of lear and him that ever ear received which in recounting his grief grew puissant
007122_6430_000013 and the strings of life began to crack twice then the trumpets sounded and there i left him tranced but who was this kent sir the banished kent
007122_6430_000014 we do require them of you so to use them as we shall find their merits and our safety may equally determine sir i thought it fit to send the old and miserable king to some retention and appointed guard whose age has charms in it
007122_6430_000015 but his flawed heart alack too weak the conflict to support twixt two extremes of passion joy and grief burst smilingly this speech of yours hath moved me and shall perchance do good
007122_6430_000016 flourish enter albany goneral regan officers and attendants sir you have showed today your valiant strain and fortune led you well you have the captives who were the opposites of this day's strife
007122_6430_000017 to amplify too much would make much more and top extremity whilst i was big in clamour came there a man who having seen me in my worst estate shunned my abhorred society
007122_6430_000018 but speak you on you look as if you have something more to say if there be more more woeful hold it in for i am almost ready to dissolve hearing of this this would have seemed a period to such as love not sorrow but another
007122_6430_000019 he led our powers bore the commission of my place and person the which immediacy may well stand up and call itself your brother not so hot in his own grace he doth exalt himself more than in your addition
007122_6430_000020 it came even from the heart of oh she's dead who dead speak man your lady sir your lady and her sister by her is poisoned she hath confessed it
007122_6430_000021 who in disguise followed his enemy king and did him service improper for a slave enter a gentleman hastily with a bloody knife help
007122_6430_000022 at this time we sweat and bleed the friend hath lost his friend and the best quarrels in the heat are cursed by those that feel their sharpness the question of cordelia and her father requires a fitter place
007122_6430_000023 help oh help what kind of help speak man what means that bloody knife 'tis hot it smokes
007122_6430_000024 sir by your patience i hold you but a subject of this war not as a brother that's as we list to grace him me thinks our pleasure might have been demanded ere you had spoke so far
007122_6430_000025 yet edmund was beloved the one the other poisoned for my sake and after slew herself even so cover their faces
007122_6430_000026 enter kent oh is this he the time will not allow the compliment that very manners urges i am come to bid my king and master aye good night
007122_6430_000027 all friends shall taste the wages of their virtue and all foes the cup of their deservings oh see see and my poor fool is hanged
007122_6430_000028 the walls are thine witness the world that i create thee here my lord and master mean you to enjoy him the let alone lies not in your good will nor in thine lord half-blooded fellow yes to edmund
007122_6430_000029 bring his constant pleasure to an officer who goes out our sister's man is certainly miscarried tis to be doubted madam now sweet lord you know the goodness i intend upon you tell me but truly
007122_6430_000030 officers soldiers and others know the duke if his last purpose hold or whether since he is advised by aught to change the course he's full of alteration and self-reproving
007122_6430_000031 let the drum strike and prove my title thine stay yet hear reason edmund i arrest thee on capital treason and in thine arrest this gilded serpent
007122_6430_000032 is he not here great thing of us forgot speak edmund where's the king and where's cordelia the bodies of goneril and regan are brought in seest thou this object kent alack why thus
007122_6430_000033 lady i am not well else i should answer from a full-flowing stomach general take thou my soldiers prisoners patrimony dispose of them of me
007171_3158_000000 marius always had two complete suits of clothes the one old for every day the other brand new for special occasions both were black he had but three shirts
007171_3158_000001 one on his person the second in the commode and the third in the washerwoman's hands he renewed them as they wore out they were always ragged which caused him to button his coat to the chin
007171_3158_000002 it was a sort of worship in two steps with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for thenardier what redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards thenardier
007171_3158_000003 he had persisted for three years expending of these explorations little money which he had laid by no one had been able to give him any news of the nardier he was supposed to have gone abroad his creditors had also sought him with less love than marius
007171_3158_000004 there came a moment in marius life when he swept his own landing when he bought his sou's worth of brie cheese at the fruiterer's when he waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase a loaf which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had stolen it
007171_3158_000005 are fields of battle which have their heroes obscure heroes who are sometimes grander than the heroes who win renown firm and rare natures are thus created
007171_3158_000006 misery almost always a stepmother is sometimes a mother destitution gives birth to might of soul and spirit distress is the nurse of pride unhappiness is a good milk for the magnanimous
007171_3158_000007 but with as much assiduity and had not been able to lay their hands on him marius blamed himself and was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches
007171_3158_000008 since that time he had made unheard of efforts to find traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which thenardier had disappeared marius had beaten the whole country he had gone to chelles to bondy to gourney to nogent to lagny
007171_3158_000009 noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds which are requited with no renown which are saluted with no trumpet blast life misfortune isolation abandonment poverty
007171_3158_000010 sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop on the corner in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him an awkward young man carrying big books under his arm
007171_3158_000011 it had required years for marius to attain to this flourishing condition hard years difficult some of them to traverse others to climb marius had not failed for a single day he had endured everything in the way of destitution he had done everything except contract debts
007171_3158_000012 and bear him off on his shoulders and yet he owed him nothing and i who owe so much to thenardier cannot join him in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death and in my turn bring him back from death to life
007171_3158_000013 aunt gillenormand made repeated attempts and sent him the sixty pistoles several times marius returned them on every occasion saying that he needed nothing
007171_3158_000014 to see thenardier to render thenardier some service to say to him you do not know me well i do know you here i am dispose of me this was marius sweetest and most magnificent dream
007171_3158_000015 on this cutlet which he cooked for himself he lived for three days on the first day he ate the meat on the second he ate the fat on the third he gnawed the bone
007171_3158_000016 asked for a mutton cutlet paid six or seven sous for it wrapped it up in a paper put it under his arm between two books and went away it was marius
007171_3158_000017 who had a timid yet angry air who on entering removed his hat from a brow whereon stood drops of perspiration made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished wife
007171_3158_000018 he was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we have just described was effected within him from that time forth he had not put off his black garments
007171_3158_000019 it was the only debt left him by the colonel and marius made it a matter of honor to pay it what he thought when my father lay dying on the field of battle did thenardier contrive to find him amid the smoke and the grapeshot
007171_3158_000020 life became hard for marius it was nothing to eat his clothes and his watch he ate of that terrible inexpressible thing that is called de la vache enrage that is to say he endured great hardships and privations
007171_3158_000021 courfeyrac to whom he had on his side done some good turns gave him an old coat for thirty sous marius got it turned by some porter or other and it was a new coat
007171_3158_000022 in spite of all this he got admitted to practice as a lawyer he was supposed to live in courfeyrac's room which was decent and where a certain number of law books backed up and completed by several dilapidated volumes of romance passed as the library required by the regulations
007171_3158_000023 but this coat was green then marius ceased to go out until after nightfall this made his coat black as he wished always to appear in mourning he clothed himself with the night
007171_3158_000024 he had his letters addressed to courfeyrac's quarters when marius became a lawyer he informed his grandfather of the fact in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect
007171_3158_000025 but his garments were quitting him the day came when he had no longer a coat the trousers would go next what was to be done
007171_3158_000026 one develops in a certain meagre fashion which is however sufficient for life this is the mode in which the existence of marius pontmercy was arranged
007171_3158_000027 chapter two marius poor it is the same with wretchedness as with everything else it ends by becoming bearable it finally assumes a form and adjusts itself one vegetates that is to say
007171_3158_000028 he had passed the worst straits the narrow pass was opening out a little in front of him by dint of toil perseverance courage and will he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a year he had learned german and english thanks to
007171_3158_000029 gillenormand trembled as he took the letter read it tore it in four pieces and threw it into the waste-basket two or three days later mademoiselle gillenormand heard her father who was alone in his room talking aloud to himself
007171_3158_000030 he always did this whenever he was greatly agitated she listened and the old man was saying if you were not a fool you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same time
007171_3158_000031 he did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou a debt was to him the beginning of slavery he even said to himself that a creditor is worse than a master for the master possesses only a person
007171_3158_000032 net product year in and year out seven hundred francs he lived in it how not so badly we will explain marius occupied in the gorbeau house
007171_3158_000033 a terrible thing it is containing days without bread nights without sleep evenings without a candle a hearth without a fire weeks without work a future without hope a coat out at the elbows an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls
007171_3158_000034 for an annual sum of thirty francs a den minus a fireplace called a cabinet which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture this furniture belonged to him he gave three francs a month to the old principal tenant to come and sweep his hole.
007171_3158_000035 and to bring him a little hot water every morning a fresh egg and a penny roll he breakfasted on his egg and roll his breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous according as eggs were dear or cheap
007171_3158_000036 was a calming potion rather than a restaurant it no longer exists the proprietor had a fine nickname he was called rousseau the aquatic thus breakfast four sous dinner sixteen sous his food cost him twenty sous a day which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year
007171_3158_000037 the whole did not exceed six hundred and fifty francs he was rich he sometimes lent ten francs to a friend courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs from him as far as fire was concerned as marius had no fireplace he had simplified matters
007171_3158_000038 now seemed insipidity and he'd nerve himself against it his face wore a sort of severe flush he was timid even to rudeness
007171_3158_000039 a crucible into which destiny casts a man whenever it desires a scoundrel or a demi-god for many great deeds are performed in petty combats
007171_3158_000040 marius learned how all this is eaten and how such are often the only things which one has to devour at that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride
007171_3158_000041 besides his father's name another name was graven in marius' heart the name is thenardier marius with his grave and enthusiastic nature surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom in his thoughts
007171_3158_000042 because he needs love he felt that he was jeered at because he was badly dressed and ridiculous because he was poor at the age when youth swells the heart with imperial pride he dropped his eyes more than once on his dilapidated boots
007171_3158_000043 if one is not on one's guard lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of soul he kept a jealous watch on his pride such and such a formality or action which in any other situation would have appeared merely a deference to him
007171_3158_000044 during all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even uplifted at times by a secret force that he possessed within himself the soul aids the body and at certain moments it raises it it is the only bird that bears up its own cage
007171_3158_000045 and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant blushes of wretchedness admirable and terrible trial from which the feeble emerge base from which the strong emerge sublime
007171_3158_000046 a door which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not paid the insolence of the porter and the cook shop man the sneers of neighbors humiliations dignity trampled on work of whatever nature accepted disgust bitterness despondency
007171_3158_000047 there are instances of bravery ignored and obstinate which defend themselves step by step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes
007171_3158_000048 he owed his father's life that intrepid sergeant that had saved the colonel amid the bullets and the cannonballs at waterloo he never separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father and he associated them at his veneration
007171_6402_000000 the temperature of the air and the likelihood of rainy or fair weather dependent on the broad uniformity of nature this is very serviceable for people who have now to live at high pressure in business in enthralling days of keen competition and it is great boon to those who are in search of health by traveling
007171_6402_000001 is the explanation i have not space enough to repeat the explanation given already in the last chapter of the glorious phenomenon of the afterglow but the explanation is similar
007171_6402_000002 one can never think of this weather prognostic from nature without recalling the swallow song of tennyson's princess why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love delaying as the tender ash delays to clothe herself when all the woods are green
007171_6402_000003 who in innocent pleasure desire to live as much as possible in open air very little credit is given to the gas of isolated weather prophet but those who have confidence in the usual weather forecasts at the meteorological office are satisfied in their belief
007171_6402_000004 this was accounted for by a thick haze which rendered the lower alps scarcely visible the upper limit of the haze was well defined and though the sky was cloudless the sun looked like a harvest moon and required no eagle's eye to keep fix in it
007171_6402_000005 at the lake lucerne there was an exceptional diminution of the number in the course of an hour viz from one hundred and seventy-one thousand to twenty-eight thousand in a cubic inch
007171_6402_000006 but throughout this volume i have given many illustrations but one of the largest and most important practical problems of meteorology is to ascertain the course which storm follow
007171_6402_000007 there was a heavy fall of hail at this time and he accounts for the diminution of dust particles by the down-rush of purer upper air which displaced the contaminated lower air
007171_6402_000008 the low flying of the swallows betokens rain as well as any unseasonable dancing of midges in the evening sore corns on the feet and rheumatism in the joints are direful precursors the leaves are all a-tremble before the approach of thunder
007171_6402_000009 and the causes by which that course is determined so that a forecast may thereby be made not only of the certain approach of a storm but a particular direction and force of the storm the method of conducting this large inquiry most effectively was devised by the french astronomer le verrier
007171_6402_000010 it is from similar maps that forecasts of storms are still framed and suitable warnings issued and a mass of information is being collected by telegraph from sixty stations in the british islands
007171_6402_000011 returning to scotland he continued his observation at ben nevis at kingairloch opposite appin mr rankin using the instrument at the top of the mountain
007171_6402_000012 and company of the state of the weather at eight o'clock every morning and analyze and arrange at the meteorological office in london for the evening's forecasts over different districts of the country
007171_6402_000013 the observations at sea level showed a certain parallelism to those on the summit of the mountain with a northwesterly wind the dust particles reached the low number of three hundred per cubic inch the lowest recorded at any low level station
007171_6402_000014 which showed graphically for the morning of the day of publication the atmospheric pressure and the direction and force of the wind together with tables of temperature rainfall cloud and sea disturbances from a large number of places in all parts of europe
007171_6402_000015 on looking about he found that the direction of the wind had changed bringing down the purer upper air to the place of observation the bending downwards of the trees by the strong wind showed that it was coming from the upper air
007171_6402_000016 these observations showed in general that on the mountain southerly southeasterly and easterly winds were more impregnated with dust particles sometimes containing one hundred and thirty three thousand per cubic inch northerly winds brought pure air
007171_6402_000017 the general deductions which he made from his numerous observations during these two years are that one ere coming from inhabited districts is always impure
007171_6402_000018 selected by the royal society it employs a staff of over forty the chief departments relate to one ocean meteorology including the collection tabulation and discussion of meteorological data from british ships the preparation of ocean weather charts
007171_6402_000019 the meteorological office westminster entirely distinct from the royal meteorological society is administered by a council chairman sir r strachey scottish member dr buchan
007171_6402_000020 and those who in self-confidence ignore all weather prognostics are still weak enough to read them and act up to them in practical meteorology in the scientific explanation of popular weather lore and in the study of atmospheric phenomena
007171_6402_000021 five high humidity causes great thickness of the atmosphere if accompanied by a great amount of dust whereas there is no evidence that humidity alone has any effect in producing thickness six and there is generally a high amount of dust with high temperature
007171_6402_000022 and the issue of meteorological instruments to the royal navy and mercantile marine chill weather telegraphy including the reception of telegrams thrice a day from selected stations for the preparation of the daily reports and weather forecasts
007171_6402_000023 little attention has been paid to foreglows compared with afterglows either with regard to their natural beauty or their weather forecasting but either the ordinary red cloud surroundings at sunrise or the western foreglow at rarer intervals betokens to the weather prophet wet and gloomy weather
007171_6402_000024 the first order stations include valentia falmouth kew and aberdeen these have self-recording instruments of high precision giving a continuous record of the meteorological elements
007171_6402_000025 in summer and autumn harvest forecasts are issued by telegraph to individuals who will defray the cost the office also collects climatological data from a number of voluntary and some subsidised stations
007171_6402_000026 a government commission which sat last year under the rt hon sir herbert maxwell have issued a report recommending a number of changes in the management and constitution to meteorological office and considerable modifications are not unlikely to take place in the near future
007171_6402_000027 the farmer and the sailor do not like the sight they depend so much on a favourable weather conditions of course sunrise to the aesthetic observer has always its charms the powerful king of day rejoices as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber as he steps upon the earth over the dewy mountain tops
007171_6402_000028 bathing all in light and spreading gladness and deep joy before him the lessening cloud the kindling azure and the mountain's brow illumined with golden streaks mark his approach he is encompassed with bright beams as he throws his unutterable love at the clouds
007171_6402_000029 the beauteous robes of heaven aslant the dew bright earth and coloured air he looks in boundless majesty abroad touching the green leaves all atremble with gold light
007171_6402_000030 in his evidence before that commission the chairman of the council acknowledged that the great function of meteorologists is the collection of facts but the interpretation of those collected facts in a scientific manner is still in a very immature condition
007171_6402_000031 followed by a rise to twenty-eight point seven without any peculiar change but in two days it fell to twenty-eight point four the lowest for years followed by a deluge of rain and a perfect hurricane for several hours while the temperature was fortunately mild
007171_6402_000032 which is so powerfully influence us for gladness or discomfort we may as with other branches of science even all our days cheerfully go on in the noiseless tenor of our way nourishing a youth sublime with the fairy tales of science and the long results of time
007171_6402_000033 but glorious and educating and inspiring as is the sunrise in itself in many cases there is occasionally something very remarkable that is connected with it rare is it but how charming when witnessed though till very recently it was all but unexplained this is the
007171_6402_000034 the work of weather forecasts and storm warnings is carried on with the highest degree of promptitude and efficiency at the washington central office this is because the work of predictions has been hitherto the chief work of the office
007171_6402_000035 in january eighteen ninety three my bedroom window looked due west i slept with blind up on that morning i was struck just after the darkness was fading away with a slight colouring all along the western horizon
007171_6402_000036 it is in no respect so splendid as the afterglow succeeding sunset but of its comparative rarity its beauty is enhanced i remember a foreglow most vividly which was seen at my manse in strathmore
007171_6402_000037 it is admitted by the best british meteorologists that the observations of the united states are better conducted although the best instruments in the world are set and registered at kew in england
007171_6402_000038 i went to the room opposite to watch the sunrise for i had observed in the diary that the appearance of the sun would not be for a few minutes there were streaks of light in the east above the horizon but no colour was visible
007171_6402_000039 became more life-like as the cheeks flush there was rare warmth in a winter morning to cheer the half-despairing soul tired after long hours of oil reading and pierced to the heart by never ceasing rhymes yet i could not understand it
007171_6402_000040 to foretell with any degree of certainty the state of the weather for twenty-four hours is of immense advantage to business men tourists fishermen and many others
007171_6402_000041 between one period of excess or deficiency of warmth and the next accompanied by opposite relative condition of moisture all are familiar with the hoisting of cone warning as indication of a coming storm this work is exceedingly important especially for those connected with sea by business or pleasure
007171_6402_000042 that hectic flush slight yet well marked which was deepening in the western heavens had no counterpart in the east except the colourless light which marked the wintry sun's near approach
007788_7108_000000 this is stark madness now mark the inside takes the letter and reads sweet lady having now cast off this counterfeit cover of madman
007788_7108_000001 aside it lays itself so gently too to diaphanta come wench most honest diaphanta i dare call thee now pray tell me madam what trick call you this i'll tell thee all hereafter
007788_7108_000002 my mistress loves you but i must have proof of your love to her there i meet my wishes that will not serve you must meet her enemy and yours he's dead already
007788_7108_000003 they cannot miss the more absurdity the more commended it so no rough behaviors affright the ladies they are nice things thou knowest you need not fear sir
007788_7108_000004 tomorrow night as if to close up the solemnity vermandero expects us i mistrust the madmen most the fools will do well enough i have taken pains with them
007788_7108_000005 i appear to your best judgment a true and faithful lover of your beauty he is mad still if any fault you find chide these perfections in you which have made me imperfect
007788_7108_000006 then this is all your answer 'tis too fair for one of his alliance and i warn you that this place no more see you exit enter de flores the best is there is more ground to meet a man's revenge on honest de flores that's my name indeed
007788_7108_000007 the more i think upon the ensuing night and whom i am to cope with in embraces one that's ennobled both in blood and mind so clear in understanding that's my plague now
007788_7108_000008 enter beatrice this fellow has undone me endlessly never was bride so fearfully distressed
007788_7108_000009 will you tell me that and i parted but now with him show me the man aye that's a right course now see him before you kill him in any case and yet it needs not go so far neither
007788_7108_000010 before whose judgment will my fault appear like malefactors crimes before tribunals there is no hiding on't the more i dive into my own distress how a wise man stands for a great calamity
007788_7108_000011 oh purely dear sir aside methinks i'm now again a-killing on him and he brings it so fresh to me thou canst guess sirrah one honest friend has an instinct of jealousy at some foul guilty person
007788_7108_000012 i see nothing ah cry you mercy sir tis your nose it showed like the trunk of a young elephant away rascal i'll prepare the music lollio exit alibius do sir and i'll dance the waltz
007788_7108_000013 till th'are so old their chins and noses meet and they salute witches i am call'd i think sir his company ev'n o'erlays my conscience  that de flores has a wondrous honest heart he'll bring it out in time i'm assur'd on't
007788_7108_000014 set round with vials every one her mark too sure he does practice physic for his own use which may be safely called your great man's wisdom
007788_7108_000015 there's no venturing into his bed what course soe'er i light upon without my shame which may grow up to danger he cannot but in justice strangle me as i lie by him as a cheater use me tis a precious craft to play with a false die before a cunning gamester
007788_7108_000016 here's his closet the key left in't and he abroad at the park sure 'twas forgot i'll be so bold as look in't opens closet bless me a right physician's closet 'tis
007788_7108_000017 sir i am so charitable i think none worse than myself you did not see the bride then i prithee name her not is she not wicked no no a pretty easy round packed sinner as your most ladies are else you might think i flattered her but sir at no hand wicked
007788_7108_000018 your words and you appear to me great strangers time and our swords may make us more acquainted this the business i should have a brother in your place how treachery and malice have disposed of him i'm bound to enquire of him which holds his right
007788_7108_000019 does honour bend in the hams coz marry it does as low as worship squireship nay yeomanry itself sometimes from whence it first stiffened
007788_7108_000020 none of that water comes into my belly i'll know you from a hundred i could break you now or turn you into milk and so beguile the master of the mystery but i'll look to you
007788_7108_000021 i hope i am not yet if he should try though let me see folio forty-five here tis the leaf tuck'd down upon't the place suspicious
007788_7108_000022 tony where art thou tony enter antonio here cousin where art thou come tony the footmanship i taught you i had rather ride cousin ay a whip take you but i'll keep you out vault in look you tony fa la la la
007788_7108_000023 there rise a caper caper after an honour cuz very proper for honour is but a caper rises as fast and high has a knee or two and falls to the ground again
007788_7108_000024 which never could come fairly you must look to answer for that word sir fear you not i'll have it ready drawn at our next meeting keep your day solemn farewell i disturb it not i'll bear the smart with patience for a time exit
007788_7108_000025 tis somewhat ominous this a quarrel entered upon this day my innocence relieves me enter jasperino i should be wondrous sad else
007788_7108_000026 i do not think i am nor wish to be tis strange you found the way to this house then would i'd ne'er known the cause i'm none of those sir that come to give you joy and swill your wine tis a more precious liquor that must lay the fiery thirst i bring
007788_7108_000027 if you would know whether a woman be with child or not give her two spoonfuls of the white water in glass c where's that glass c oh yonder i see it now and if she be with child she sleeps full twelve hours after if not not
007788_7108_000028 and blames thee for thy slowness all may prove nothing only a friendly fear that leapt from me sir no question it may prove nothing let's partake it though 'twas diaphanta's chance for to that wench i pretend honest love and she deserves it
007788_7108_000029 stand up thou son of cretan dedalus and let us tread the lower labyrinth i'll bring thee to a clue prithee cuz let me alone art thou not drown'd
007788_7108_000030 ah that which is next is ten times worse how to know whether a woman be a maid or not if that should be applied what would become of me belike he has a strong faith of my purity that never yet made proof
007788_7108_000031 which upon her that is a maid makes three several effects twill make her incontinently gape then fall into a sudden sneezing last into a violent laughing else dull heavy and lumpish
007788_7108_000032 tis but a fool that haunts the house and my mistress in the shape of an idiot bang but his fool's coat well-favouredly and tis well soundly soundly only reserve him till the masque be past and if you find him not now in the dance yourself i'll show you
007788_7108_000033 the bride's place and with a thousand ducats i'm for a justice now i bring a portion with me i scorn small fools exeunt
007788_7108_000034 here's wax enough below icarus more than will be cancelled these eighteen moons he's down he's down what a terrible fall he had
007788_7108_000035 you can remember your figure tony exit yes cousin when i see thy figure i can remember mine enter isabella like a mad woman hey how he treads the air slough slough t'other way he burns his wings else
007788_7108_000036 to leave me at the back part of the house a place we choose for private conference she was no sooner gone but instantly i heard your bride's voice in the next room to mine and leading more attention found deflores louder than she deflores
007788_7108_000037 oh were she the sole glory of the earth had eyes that could shoot fire into kings' breasts and touched she sleeps not here yet i have time though night be near to be resolved hereof
007788_7108_000038 aye madam let him compass whole parks and forests as great rangers do at roosting time a little lodge can hold him earth conquering alexander that thought the world too narrow for him in the end had but his pit hole
007788_7108_000039 and prithee do not weigh me by my passions i never weigh'd friend so done charitably no that key will lead thee to a pretty secret gives key by a chaldean taught me and i've made my study upon some
007788_7108_000040 where had i been i fear it yet 'tis seven hours to bedtime enter diaphanta cuds madam are you here aside seeing that wench now a trick comes in my mind
007788_7108_000041 and we will rule these wild rebellious waves that would have drowned my love i'll kick thee if again thou touch me thou wild unshapen antic i am no fool you bedlam but ye are as sure as i am mad
007788_7108_000042 have i put on this habit of a frantic with love as full of fury to beguile the nimble eye of watchful jealousy and am i thus rewarded reveals herself ha dearest beauty no i have no beauty now nor never had
007788_7108_000043 bless thee from the pirates pox upon you let me alone  why shouldst thou mount so high as mercury unless thou hadst reversion of his place stay in the moon with me endymion
007788_7108_000044 tis a nice piece gold cannot purchase to dia fanta i come hither wench to look my lord aside would i had such a cause to look him too to beatrice why he's at the park madam there let him be
007788_7108_000045 i came a feigner to return stark mad exit enter lollio stay or i shall change condition and become as you are
007788_7108_000046 do you mean good sooth madam well if i'd thought upon the fear at first man should have been unknown is't possible i will give a thousand ducats to that woman would try what my fear were
007788_7108_000047 not an hour since her woman came pleading her lady's fears delivered her for the most timorous virgin that ever shrunk at man's name and so modest she charged her weep out her request to me that she might come obscurely to my bosom enter beatrice
007788_7108_000048 and tell me true tomorrow when she gets from it as she likes i might perhaps be drawn to it are you in earnest do you get the woman then challenge me and see if i'll fly from't
007788_7108_000049 her fears thou would'st say fear of what art thou a maid and talk'st so to a maid you leave a blushing business behind be sure your heart for it
007788_7108_000050 aside all things go well my woman's preparing yonder for her sweet voyage which grieves me to lose necessity compels it i lose all else aside push modesty's shrine is set in yonder forehead
007788_7108_000051 but what was in my garments you are a quick-sighted lover come not near me keep your comparisons you're aptly clad
007788_7108_000052 bring from my closet a glass inscribed there with the letter m and question not my purpose it shall be done exit how can this hang together
007788_7108_000053 she says and the fool shall ride her may i believe thee yes or you may choose whether you will or no she's eased of him i have a good quarrel on it well keep your old station yet and be quiet tell her i will deserve her love
007788_7108_000054 and i could throw the full effects on thee and beat thee like a fury do not do not i shall not forbear the gentleman under the fool if you do alas i saw through your foxskin before now
007788_7108_000055 but i must tell you this by the way she must be a true maid else there's no trial my fears are not hers else nay she that i would put into your hands madam shall be a maid you know i should be shamed else because she lies for me tis a strange humour
007788_7108_000056 in in my master he handles him like a feather hey exit dancing enter alibius well said in a readiness lollio
007788_7108_000057 scene two enter vermandero and servant i tell thee knave mine honour is in question a thing till now free from suspicion nor ever was there cause who of my gentlemen are absent tell me and truly how many and who
007788_7108_000058 exit and you are like to have your desire enter franciscus down down down a-down a-down and then with a horse trick to kick latona's forehead and break
007788_7108_000059 nay then you urge me madam your honourable self is not a truer with all your fears upon you aside bad enough then than i with all my lightsome joys about me i'm glad to hear it then
007788_7108_000060 i do not know how the world goes abroad for faith or honesty there's both required in this madam what say you to me and stray no further i've a good mind in troth to earn your money you're too quick i fear to be a maid how not a maid
007788_7108_000061 i come in winter to you dismantled of my proper ornaments by the sweet splendour of your cheerful smiles i spring and live a lover mad rascal still tread him not under foot that shall appear an honour to your bounties
007788_7108_000062 oh are you come sir aside the glass upon my life i see the letter sir this is m tis it aside i am suspected how fitly our bride comes to partake with us
007788_7108_000063 what is't my lord no hurt sir pardon me i seldom taste of any composition but this upon my warrant you shall venture on i fear twill make me ill
007788_7108_000064 come i can give you comfort my mistress loves you and there is arrant a madman in the house as you are a fool your rival whom she loves not if after the masque we can get rid of him you earn her love
007788_7108_000065 heaven forbid that aside i'm put now to my cunning the effects i know if i can now but feign em handsomely drinks to jaspireno it has that secret virtue it never missed sir upon a virgin chapel qualities beatrice gapes then sneezes
007788_7108_000066 but are you serious still would you resign your first night's pleasure and give money too as willingly as i live aside alas the gold is but a bybet to wedge in the honour
007788_7108_000067 this is pretty well for a madman ha what's that chide those perfections in you which have made me imperfect i am discovered to the fool i hope to discover the fool in you ere i have done with you
007788_7108_000068 with thy mistress next her apron strings give me thy hand stay let me put yours in my pocket first puts away the letter your hand is true is it not it will not pick
007788_7108_000069 no thou hast given me such joy of heart that never can be blasted what's the matter sir to jasperino see now tis settled in a melancholy
007788_7108_000070 you dare put your honesty upon an easy trial easy anything i'll come to you straight goes to the closet aside she will not search me will she like the forewoman of a female jury glass m
007788_7108_000071 aside now if the experiment be true twill praise itself and give me noble ease begins already diafanta gapes there's the first symptom
007788_7108_000072 yours all or one beside himself franciscus this madman will mend sure what do you read sirrah your destiny sir you'll be hanged for this trick and another that i know art thou of counsel
007788_7108_000073 and what haste it makes to fall into the second there by this time diaphanta sneezes achoo most admirable secret on the contrary it stirs me not a whit which most concerns it ha ha ha
007788_7108_000074 sirrah there's a madman akin to the fool too a lunatic lover no no not he i brought the letter from compare his inside with his out and tell me gives him the letter the out's mad i'm sure of that
007788_7108_000075 ha ha i am so so light at heart ha ha ha so pleasurable but one swig more sweet madam aye tomorrow we shall have time to sit by it now i'm sad again
007788_7108_000076 aside just in all things and in order as if twere circumscribed one accident gives away unto another ha ha ha how now wench ha
007788_7108_000077 i remain mad till i speak with you from whom i expect my cure yours all or one beside himself franciscus you would like to have a fine time on't
007788_7108_000078 antonio sir and franciscus when did they leave the castle some ten days since sir the one intending to briamata the other for valencia the time accuses em
007788_7108_000079 i partly fear it because i think it does lie not in a syllable so if you love my mistress so well as you have handled the matter here you are like to be cured of your madness and none but she can cure it
007788_7108_000080 i had a taste on reads to the bright andromeda chief chambermaid to the knight of the sun at the sign of scorpio in the middle region sent by the bellows mender of eolus pie the post
007788_7108_000081 good boy lollio enter isabella then lollio with madmen and fools the madmen and fools dance 'tis perfect well fit but once these strains we shall have coin and credit for our pains exeunt
007788_7108_000082 if i find you minister once and set up the trade i put in for my thirds i shall be mad or fool else the first place is thine believe it lollio if i do fall i fall upon you so well
007788_7108_000083 a charge of murder is brought within my castle gate piracquo's murder i dare not answer faithfully their absence a strict command of apprehension shall pursue em suddenly and either wipe the stain off clear or openly discover it
007788_7108_000084 i stand to my venture but thy counsel now how shall i deal with them why do you mean to deal with them nay the fair understanding how to use 'em abuse 'em
007788_7108_000085 that's the way to mad the fool and make a fool of the madman and then you use em kindly tis easy i'll practise do thou observe it the key is in my wardrobe there
007788_7108_000086 beatrice the bride following in great state accompanied with diafhanta isabella and other gentlewomen de flores after all smiling at the accident
007788_7108_000087 if my peace find no fairer satisfaction this is the place must yield account for him for here i left him and the hasty tie of this snatched marriage gives strong testimony of his most certain ruin certain falsehood
007788_7108_000088 this is the place indeed his breach of faith has too much marred both my abused love and the honourable love i reserved for him and mocked my daughter's joy
007788_7108_000089 enter alsemero with jasperino and gallants vermandero points to him the gentlemen seeming to applaud the choice exeunt in procession alsemero jasperino and gentlemen
007788_7108_000090 alonzo's ghost appears to de flores in the midst of his smile startles him showing him the hand whose finger he had cut off they pass over in great solemnity
007788_7108_000091 fit yourself for 'em and i'll fit 'em both for you gives her the key take thou no further notice than the outside exit not an inch i'll put you to the inside enter alibius lollio art there will all be perfect think'st thou
008613_7116_000000 nine when niloxenus had read out these answers there was a short silence among them by and by thales desires niloxenus to inform him if amasis approved of these answers
008613_7116_000001 and you seem to have forgot your own fable of the fox who contending with the leopard as to which was beset with more colors and spots
008613_7116_000002 when chersias had concluded his discourse cleodemus began thus we see you that are wise men possessing these outward goods after an unequal manner good sweet sir answered cleobulus
008613_7116_000003 the law weaver like hath distributed to every man a fitting decent adequate proportion and in your profession your reason does what the law does here when you feed or diet or physic your patient
008613_7116_000004 the light what is most common death what is most profitable god what is most pernicious an evil genius what is strongest fortune what is most easy that which is pleasant
008613_7116_000005 and having referred the matter in controversy to the arbitration of an empire desired him to consider not so much the outside as the inside for saith he i have more various and different fetches and tricks in my mind than he has marks or spots in his body
008613_7116_000006 consisting of honey and i know not what barbarian cheese and of many and costly seeds fetched from foreign parts if to make up this composition so many ingredients were requisite
008613_7116_000007 but he affirms both plants to be great restoratives you are in the right quoth cleodemus for it is evident hesiod was no ordinary physician who could discourse so learnedly and judiciously of diet of the nature of wines and of the virtue of waters and baths
008613_7116_000008 who sent an imperious letter to the lesbians he made him no answer except to bid him spend his time in eating his hot bread and onions periander here assumed the discourse and said
008613_7116_000009 and so difficult to come by and so expensive hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage and never blessed the world with the discovery and yet i admire how your host when he went to perform the great purification for the delians not long since could
008613_7116_000010 then cleodemus said my friend niloxenus it becomes kings to propound and resolve such questions but the insolence of that barbarian who would have amasis drink the sea would have been better fitted by such a smart reprimand as pittacus gave alyattes
008613_7116_000011 what is most profitable virtue for by a right managery of other things she makes them all beneficial and advantageous what is most pernicious vice for it depraves the best things we enjoy
008613_7116_000012 anacharsis subjoined he fears your severe law my friend pittacus wherein your decreed the drunkard a double punishment you seem said pittacus
008613_7116_000013 i love that ruby god whose blessings flow in tides to recreate my thirsty maw venus i court the muses i adore who give us wine and pleasures evermore
008613_7116_000014 what is the most strong necessity for this alone is insuperable what is most easy that which is most agreeable to nature for pleasures themselves are sometimes tedious and nauseating all the consult approved of thales's solutions
008613_7116_000015 a little to fear the penalty who have adventured heretofore and now again before my face to break that law and to demand a crown for the reward of your debauch
008613_7116_000016 but this cup quoth esop is no public cup it hath stood so long by solon's trenchard then pittacus called to mnesiphilus why said he does not solon drink but act in contradiction to his own verses
008613_7116_000017 if i may have leave to deliver my opinion quoth cleoclemus i must profess myself of a different judgment especially now we sit at table for as soon as the meat is taken away we have removed what belongs to those gods that are the patrons of friendship and hospitality
008613_7116_000018 or myself to make enquiry in a matter so plain for if it be a blessing next to the greatest to need little victuals then it is the greatest felicity to need none at all
008613_7116_000019 or inform me of any other end men drive at in drinking much wine but to be drunk pittacus laughed at this reply and esop told them this fable
008613_7116_000020 mnesiphilus then spake to this effect i know this to be the opinion of solon that in every art and faculty divine and human the work which is done is more desired than the instrument wherewith it is done and the end than the means conducing to that end
008613_7116_000021 tell me amuse what never was and never yet shall be hesiod answered readily and extempore in this wise when steeds with sounding hoof to win the prize shall run amain and at tomb of mighty jove their chariots break in twain
008613_7116_000022 was a leading citizen one that had perpetual wars with the eretrians and at last lost his life in one of the battles fought for the possession of the lelantine plain
008613_7116_000023 chilo said esop hath very justly revenged himself upon us who awhile ago stopped his mouth now he observes how we prevented mnesiphilus's discourse when the question was put why solon did not drink up his wine
008613_7116_000024 why not quoth anacharsis when there is a reward promised to the hardest drinker why should i not demand my reward having drunk down all my fellows
008613_7116_000025 the wolf seeing a parcel of shepherds in their booth feeding upon a lamb approaching near them what a bustle and noise and uproar would you have made saith he if i had but done what you do
008613_7116_000026 and of women the proper times for procreation and the site and position of infants in the womb insomuch that as i take it esop deserves much more the name of hesiod's scholar and disciple than
008613_7116_000027 it is more than probable he might learn of him the grounds upon which he accustomed himself to so spare a diet fifteen to what purpose said solon should i trouble him
008613_7116_000028 now because the writings of those poets were composed in verse and so made the argument more knotty and the decision more difficult and the great names of the antagonists
008613_7116_000029 it was the manner of the ancient grecians heretofore o cleodemus to propound doubts to one another and it hath been told us that the most famous and eminent poets once met at the grave of amphidamas in chalcis this amphidamas
008613_7116_000030 homer and hesiod whose excellence was so well known made the umpires timorous and shy to determine they therefore betook themselves of these sorts of questions and homer says lesches propounded this riddle
008613_7116_000031 as upon the removal of the earth quoth thales there must needs follow an universal confusion of all things so in forbidding men meat
008613_7116_000032 you regard only the handiwork of carpenters and masons and stone-cutters and call this a house not what one hath within his children his wife his friends and attendants with whom if a man lived
008613_7116_000033 and the government of those men's passions who are lovers of singing and masters of music and agreeably copulation is not the work of venus nor is drunkness that of bacchus but love and friendship affection and familiarity which are begot and improved by the means of these
008613_7116_000034 overgrown with weeds and through the sloth of men overflowed with waters and together with this all arts would fail which are supported and encouraged hereby
008613_7116_000035 which she frames and bends to recreate herself with as much pleasure as other virgins make nets and girdles they may be fit to offer and puzzle women withal but for men to beat their brains to find out their mystery would be mighty ridiculous
008613_7116_000036 you give not an equal quantity to all but what you judge to be convenient for each in his circumstances ardalns enquires i pray what a law compels our friend and solon's host epimenides to abstain from all other victuals and to content himself with a little composition
008613_7116_000037 is it not much more ridiculous that all present cannot resolve the riddle she propounded to us before supper this was as follows a man i saw who by his fire did set a piece of brass fast to a man so that it seemed to him it welded was can you tell me said he
008613_7116_000038 there must needs follow the dispersion and dissolution of the family the sacred fire the cups the feasts and the entertainments which are the principal and most innocent diversions of mankind and so all the comforts of society are at the end
008613_7116_000039 more than those little things preparatory to these main matters as the kindling of the coals and getting ready the stone-dust yet farther a carpenter would justly blame us if we should affirm it is not his work to build houses or ships
008613_7116_000040 but to bore holes or to make mortar and the muses would be implacably incensed with him that should say their business is only to make harps pipes and such musical instruments not the institution and correction of manners
008613_7116_000041 for to men of business some recreation is necessary and the preparation and use of victuals conduces much thereunto again to be without victuals will tend to the destruction of husbandry for want whereof the earth would soon be
008613_7116_000042 i have my witnesses ready for there are your cupping glasses cleodemus laughed outright for of all the physicians in his time none used cupping glasses like him he being a person that by his frequent and fortunate application thereof brought them first into request in the world eleven
008613_7116_000043 only light and heat and who will build an altar or offer sacrifice to jupiter pluvius or to ceres the patroness of husbandmen or to neptune the preserver of plants and trees
008613_7116_000044 nay more take away hospitality and the use of victuals and the worship and honor of the gods will sink and perish the sun will have but small and the moon yet smaller reverence if they afford men
008613_7116_000045 solon terms these works divine and he professes he loves and now prosecutes them in his cleaning years as vigorously as ever in his youthful days
008613_7116_000046 which like fire softened and melted their tempers and disposed them for a happy union but in such a company and of such men as periander hath invited there is no need of can and chalice
008613_7116_000047 is the athenian a friend and favorite of solon's said oh periander our discourse as our wine ought to be distributed not accordingly to our power or priority but freely and equally as in a popular state
008613_7116_000048 for what hath been already discoursed concerning kingdoms and empires signifies little to us who live in a democracy wherefore i judge it convenient that every one of you beginning with solon should freely and impartially declare his sense of a popular state
008613_7116_000049 how to construe this and what the sense of it may be no said cleodemus nor do i care to know what it means and yet quoth esop no man understands this thing better and practices it more judiciously and successfully than yourself if you deny it
008613_7116_000050 but the muses themselves throwing a subject of discourse among you as it were a sober cup wherein is contained much of delight and drollery and seriousness too
008613_7116_000051 in short the subversion and confusion of the greatest blessings attend this opinion promiscuously and indefatigably to pursue all sorts of pleasures i own to be brutish and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish
008613_7116_000052 then mutual love between man and wife is the work of venus the greatness of the pleasure affecting their bodies mixes and melts their very souls divers others having little or no acquaintance before have yet contracted a firm and lasting friendship over a glass of wine
008613_7116_000053 of his own which the greeks call alimos hunger relieving this he takes into his mouth and chews and eats neither dinner nor supper
008613_7116_000054 do hereby provoke nourish and increase friendship among you suffering the can to rest quietly upon the bowl contrary to the rule which hesiod gives for those who have more skill for carousing than for discoursing
008613_7116_000055 and fitting than that which springs from a plentiful table which is granted by all men for placing this in the middle men converse with one another and share in the provision
008613_7116_000056 in which those that are not personally injured are yet as forward to question and correct wrongdoers as that person who is more immediately wronged bias added where all fear the law as they fear a tyrant
008613_7116_000057 saith chersias does not jupiter distribute to the gods their proportion and dividend sparingly and severally as agamemnon did to his commanders when his guests drank to one another if chersias quoth cleodemus as you narrate
008613_7116_000058 thirdly thales said where the citizens are neither too rich nor too poor fourthly anacharsis said where though in all other respects they are equal yet virtuous men are advanced and vicious person degraded
008613_7116_000059 fifthly cleobulus said where the rulers fear reproof and shame more than the law sixthly pittacus said where bad men are prohibited from ruling and good men from not ruling
008613_7116_000060 in an emmet's bed or a bird's nest enjoying in common the ordinary comforts of life this man may be affirmed to live a happy and a fortunate life
008613_7116_000061 as to the pleasures of the bed men use these in the dark reputing the use thereof no less shameful and beastly than the total disuse of the pleasures of the table cleodemus having finished this long harangue i began to this effect you omit one thing my friend
008613_7116_000062 though all the rest with stated rules we bound unmixed unmeasured are the goblets crowned for it was the old greek way as homer here tells us to drink one to another in course and order so ajax gave a share of his meat
008613_7116_000063 the motion pleased all the company then saith solon my friend mnesiphilus you heard together with the rest of this good company my opinion concerning republics but since you are willing to hear it again i hold that city or state happy and most likely to remain democratic
008613_7116_000064 let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper but for the body there is certainly no pleasure more harmless and commendable
008613_7116_000065 as for instance how can that be most ancient whereof part is past part is now present and part is yet to come every man knows it is younger than ourselves and our actions
008613_7116_000066 this i have thought fit to offer in vindication of our bellies if solon or any other has any thing to object to what i have said i am willing to hear him
008613_7116_000067 twelve when they had ended this discourse i begged they would condescend to direct me how to govern a house for they were few who had cities and kingdoms to govern compared with those who had houses and families to manage esop laughed and said
008613_7116_000068 add to this that our whole life will be of one form and fashion and our soul enclosed in a body to no purpose many and those the principal parts thereof are naturally so formed and fashioned as to be organs of nutriment so the tongue the teeth the stomach
008613_7116_000069 to show what that measure is which may content any man cleobulus answered the law has prescribed a measure for wise men but as touching fools i will tell you a story i once heard my mother relate to my brother
008613_7116_000070 certain doves bring him his ambrosia every meal flying with a world of hardship through the rocks called planctae or wandering can you blame him for his sparingness and frugality and dealing out to his guests by measure
008613_7116_000071 fourteen i am satisfied quoth chersias and since we are fallen upon our old discourse of housekeeping which of the company can remember what remains to be said thereof there remains if i mistake not
008613_7116_000072 therefore saith anacharsis he alone or he principally is most free among the gods and ever at his own liberty and dispose he governs all and is governed and subject to none
008613_7116_000073 and the liver whereof none are idle none framed for other use so that whosoever hath no need of nutriment has no need of his body that is in other words no man hath any need of himself for every man hath a body of his own
008613_7116_000074 so my chersias to the desires of a foolish immoderate man no certain measure can be fitted for according to the ebbing and flowings of his lust and appetite
008613_7116_000075 periander concluded with his opinion that all of them would best approve that democracy which came next and was likest to an aristocracy
008613_7116_000076 the command of the king of ethiopia says niloxenus is no more and no less than to use archilochus's phrase a broken scytale
008613_7116_000077 on a certain time the moon begged of her mother a coat that would fit her how can that be done quoth the mother for sometimes you are full sometimes the one-half of you seems lost and perished sometimes only a pair of horns appear
008613_7116_000078 niloxenus read out the remainder of your lord's letter and slip not this opportunity to receive what satisfaction all that are present shall be able to give you
008613_7116_000079 i hope you except anacharsis out of your number for having no house he glories because he can be contented with a chariot only as they say the sun is whirled about from one end of the heavens to the other in his chariot
008613_7116_000080 chilo pausing a little while determined that the best and most durable state was where the subject minded the law most and the orators least
008613_7116_000081 was of mind to build himself a house but when the summer came on he lay all along upon the ground and stretching himself in the sun thought himself monstrous big
008613_7116_000082 so where he finds him under a mistake not to suffer that to pass without correction his answers to the foresaid questions i will read to you what is most ancient time what is greatest the world what is wisest truth what is most beautiful
008613_7116_000083 therefore you laughed when solon told you how when he viewed croesus's place and found it richly and gloriously furnished and yet could not yield he lived happily
008613_7116_000084 until he had tried inward and invisible state of his mind for a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favors and blessings of fortune but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind
008613_7116_000085 and thought it a needless thing and besides no small piece of work to build him a house proportionable to that bulk and bigness and do you not observe ochersias continues he many poor men how one while they pinch their bellies upon what short commons they live
008613_7116_000086 but he rides and reigns and you know not how magnificent and capacious his chariot is if you did you would not thus floutingly compare it with our scythian chariots
008613_7116_000087 how sparing and niggardly and miserable they are and another while you may observe the same men as distrustful and covetous withal as if the plenty of city and country the riches of king and kingdom were not sufficient to preserve them from want and beggary
008613_7116_000088 and the frequent or seldom casualties that befall him accordingly his necessities ebb or flow not unlike esop's dog who being pinched and ready to starve with cold in winter
008613_7116_000089 quoth niloxenus and do you judge of his answers and the soundness thereof and it is my prince's purpose not to misrepresent his responses and condemn unjustly what he saith well
008613_7116_000090 that is the meaning is inscrutable and cannot be found out but your friend amasis was more gentle and civil in his queries for he commanded him only to resolve him what was most ancient most beautiful greatest wisest most common
008613_7116_000091 and withal and what was most profitable most pernicious most strong and most easy did he resolve and answer every one of these questions he did
010226_10111_000000 after his nap timothy lazily stretched first one gray velvet foot then another strolled indolently to his plate turning over the food carefully selecting choice bits nosing out that which he scorned upon the clean hearth
010226_10111_000001 for timothy was a spoiled cat and he allowed no one to interfere everybody waited upon him moving their chairs even for he was monarch of the hearth
010226_10111_000002 but timothy resolved to punish them all and the pampered fellow had actually taken to the woods for his heart was so filled with bitter hate and jealousy that he simply would not return to the kitchen
010226_10111_000003 so timothy went away vainly they searched for him even setting out his tin plate each day filled with chicken bones to tempt him back
010226_10111_000004 said timothy then he began to cuff at the hedgehog and worry him the next thing timothy did was to climb a tree as fast as he could for the hedgehog had turned upon him and driven his nose full of sharp spines
010226_10111_000005 now the woods where timothy wandered alone were wild and lonely and in them were fierce bob cats ugly lynx with sharp tufted ears who snarled and fought at night and many others whom timothy had never met
010226_10111_000006 the first night in the forest he crouched beneath a clump of spruces soon a hedgehog came grunting along and when timothy spat at the hedgehog it simply turned its back upon him my you're a sad coward i'll teach you a lesson
010226_10111_000007 that night faint with hunger timothy climbed a tall sycamore tree and tucking his paws beneath him he tried to sleep but he kept longing for the cozy peaceful hearth which he had left as chilly winds swept through the woods and moaned through the sycamore
010226_10111_000008 most of the night he spent miserably trying to free himself from the sharp hedgehog needles the next morning he was hungry in a certain tree he found a bird's nest
010226_10111_000009 making its brown withered leaves flap and clatter in a lonely fashion quite different to the customary cheery singing of the copper kettle upon the hearth a family of hoot owls awoke in their nest in the sycamore
010226_10111_000010 soon they discovered poor timothy and began to peck at him viciously hooting at him and glaring at him with great fierce eyes so that timothy hastily scratched his way down from the tree
010226_10111_000011 with three scrawny young birds so he had just put forth a paw to select one for his breakfast when down upon his back lighted the mother hawk and drove timothy off into the forest
010226_10111_000012 so off again crept miserable timothy to the great cold lonely barn he slept upon the hay where the cold snow sifted down upon him and the wind whined and howled over his head all night
010226_10111_000013 soon something soft and white came fluttering down from the sky and little flakes of cold snow began to settle upon timothy's gray coat while the wind began to howl and the storm to break where could he go
010226_10111_000014 after his lunch selfish timothy took a stroll ah if he only had suspected everything would soon be changed for him in the kitchen
010226_10111_000015 a thought struck him he would go back to the house and see if the spotted dog was still there so he crept to the kitchen window and peered in and by the light of the fire he saw that his place was still occupied by the little dog
010226_10111_000016 poor miserable timothy the snow lay white upon the ground and timothy took long flying leaps to escape it occasionally he would pause to lift and flirt his feet for he hated to get them wet besides they ached with the cold
010226_10111_000017 the little spotted dog stood up and welcomed him wagging his tail so hard that his whole body shook and he actually greeted poor timothy with a bark of joy
010226_10111_000018 then lonely timothy pining for sympathy ventured a trifle closer to the hearth and the little dog sidled over to meet him and actually began to lap timothy's rough fur tenderly
010226_10111_000019 but timothy's proud jealous spirit was nearly broken and one night he decided to go back to the hearth so he stole into the kitchen after everybody was asleep and then a wonderful thing happened
010226_10111_000020 for days timothy stayed there he managed to catch a few stray mice after a long chase but soon his sides grew thin his soft gray fur shabby and coarse and dark while his eyes were furtive and sullen
010226_10111_000021 whereupon timothy to show that he bore no further ill will sidled and rubbed himself gently against the tan and white spotted coat of the gentle little dog
010226_10111_000022 as he washed and scrubbed his neglected fur coat making a complete and fresh toilet suitable for the kitchen the next morning when the farmer's wife came into the kitchen such a sight met her eyes
010226_10111_000023 then timothy and his friend ate together from the tin plate sat down upon the hearth and timothy began a whirring buzzing song of contentment which might even be heard above the singing of the copper kettle
010226_10111_000024 for even now the dearest little stray dog with soft coat of white and tan spots had been received into the family while timothy was out
010226_10111_000025 such a majestic air had timothy as he sat there in his own place which none presumed to usurp his silvery gray paws tucked neatly beneath his warm furry breast his big yellow eyes just mere slits of sleepiness
010226_10111_000026 intending to snatch a morsel of food from timothy's plate which always stood there heaped with dainties but the next instant the little mouse had changed its mind for there sat timothy himself right upon the hearth in front of the fire guarding his plate
010226_10111_000027 timothy saw the gray mouse quite plainly but he never felt hungry enough to bother much about chasing mice and just to show his supremacy timothy merely opened one eye and stared insolently at the mouse
010226_10111_000028 so with bright bead-like eyes trembling nose and whiskers the mouse taking courage just stared at timothy monarch of the kitchen
010226_10111_000029 upon his return he soon saw the little spotted dog occupying his place and eating from his own tin plate fiercely indignant at the sight
010226_10111_000030 timothy arched his gray back until the fur stood up in ridges as he spat vindictively at the stranger while his big yellow eyes glared with such sullen hate that the little spotted dog shook with fear
010226_10111_000031 still he did not offer to fight or give back to timothy his place on the hearth and actually ate up everything on the tin plate while timothy had to stand and look on with deep angry growls of jealous rage
010226_10111_000032 uttering little muffled rumbling growls deep down inside which so terrified the foolish little mouse that he immediately scuttled off behind the wainscoting squeaking as he ran
010226_10111_000033 but the little dog was brave and did not go away and soon timothy decided to vent his displeasure upon the whole family by leaving the house altogether
010226_10111_000034 of course they would be so anxious to get him back that they would surely send the spotted dog away and then he timothy would return to the hearth
010226_9841_000000 sir walter actually swallowed this amazing fib and alludes to it in rob roy eighteen eighteen but mr raine the editor of surtees life inherited or bought the copy of gwillim that of mr gill or gyll
010226_9841_000001 i send you a copy of the ballad with the gaps where the tooth of time or of the worm edax rerum hath impaired it filled up with conjectural restorations of my own but how far do they fall short of the original simplicity non cuivis contiget
010226_9841_000002 who was the farmer will laidlaw had employed james hogg as shepherd hogg's mother chanted auld maitland hogg first met scott in the summer of eighteen o one the shepherd had already seen the first volume of the minstrelsy
010226_9841_000003 and though fragmentary it is the more precious as the style proves to demonstration and against the frantic scepticism even of a ritson the antique and venerable character of those compositions
010226_9841_000004 he found it in a manuscript note in the gwillim's heraldry of mr gyll or gill the name is written both ways he beareth per pale or an arg over all spectre passant shrouded sable he being newton of beverley in yorkshire
010226_9841_000005 who has put forth a plaunflet i love that old spelling in which he derides the history of aldobrand oldenbuck as a fable the ballad shall indeed have an honoured place in my poor collection whenever the public taste calls for a new edition
010226_9841_000006 with the tears in her angel eyes one of them having a slight cast from an accident with the moderator lamp harris being quick in his temper often and often have she said to me
010226_9841_000007 make your choice in fact of all my gabions as honest old george ruthven called them nay excuse the covetousness of an antiquary my dear sir
010226_9841_000008 but the original what would i not give to have it in my hands to touch the very parchment which came from the press of my revered ancestor and gloating on the crabbed letters confute maccribb to his face ipso visu et tactu of so inestimable a rarity
010226_9841_000009 nor could such be soothing to the temper so let bygones be bygones between us for wanting of my betsy i am now in a nice state of confusion with a patient as was well beknown to me in my younger days
010226_9841_000010 and so between you and me may it be betsy prig as was constant partners afore them chuzzlewidges and nadgetts and lewsomses and tiggses and chuffeys
010226_9841_000011 did he thereupon write auld maitland teach his mother it and induce laidlaw to take it down from her recitation the old lady said she got it from andrew moir who had it frae auld baby mettlin who was said to have been another nor a gude ane
010226_9841_000012 exchanges or swaps as the vulgar call them are not unknown among our fraternity ask what you will for this treasure to half of my kingdom
010226_9841_000013 my gold aurelius found at bermuckety on the very limits of roman caledonia my complaint of scotland the only perfect copy known my copperplate with almanacks engraved upon it and other knacks my moon dial with napier's bones and several constellation stones
010226_9841_000014 and never gave her no cause to form the wish to pizen them as has good looks but for i will not deceive you ready with his hands
010226_9841_000015 i well know that nothing i could offer were worth the tithe of your priceless discovery the oldest printed scots ballad extant it shall suffice for me to look on it under the roof of mainsforth when next i make a raid across the border
010226_9841_000016 ah sairey the quarrels of friends is affection's best restorer and good reason to know it she have with a husband as was ever true
010226_9841_000017 got that mixed and that aggravating that to remember who of them poisoned which and for why in a slime draught it makes my poor head go round
010226_9841_000018 when there wasn't so much of a shadow on this mortal vial meaning mr pecksniff which you will not forget of him by reason of his daughter as married that jonadge
010226_9841_000019 i have conquered my passions and can obey the last of the commandments haud equiden invideo minor magis i need not bid you be watchful of your booty yours most faithfully jonathan oldbuck
010226_9841_000020 it is well known that mr surtees of mainsforth not only palmed off on sir waiter scott several ballads of his own manufacture but also invented and pretended to have found in a document since burned the story of the duel with the spectre knight which occurs in marmion
010226_9841_000021 as the title is lacking as well as the imprint i have styled it the fragment of the fause lover and the dead leman oh willie rade and willie gaed atween the shore and sea and still it was his dead lady that kept him company
010226_9841_000022 dear sir i am something of the mussulman's humour as you know and never willingly pass by a scrap of printed paper however it comes in my way
010226_9841_000023 cook to mr warburton who destroyed his ancient manuscript plays hath invaded my sanctum and the original black-letter text of the ballad has gone to join shakespeare's stephen and henry the second
010226_9841_000024 i cannot indeed like the spectator mention a paper kite from which i have received great improvement nor a hat-case which i would not exchange for all the beavers in great britain
010226_9841_000025 and wonder at it i do not them chuzzlewidges and chuffeys being that distracting and ever proving to be some other person in disguise as would confuge a calculating boy
010226_9841_000026 my dear sir alas your warning comes too late an accursed example of a womankind fit descendant of that unhappy betty barnes
010226_9841_000027 and his collars as mints of money must have gone to the getting them up but is now at todgers's and confused in his poor mind thinking hisself somebody else high in parliament
010226_9841_000028 so being applied to for to nightly him there in that very sick room for why should i deceive you i meets the daily nuss and betsy
010226_9841_000029 being what i am not accustomed to but having had a turn for will you believe it she was not a widger woman as has experience in the ways of men but a huzzy in a bragian cap like them nuns wear in mariar monk
010226_9841_000030 ballads are his foible and he can hardly be made to part with one of the broadsides in his broken portfolios well semel insanivimus omnes
010226_9841_000031 and though we wonder now that some of them could take in an expert it is by no means assured that we are even today acquainted with the whole of surtees' frauds why a man otherwise honourable kindly charitable and learned exercised his ingenuity so cruelly upon a trusting correspondent and a staunch friend
010226_9841_000032 you know the man by report at least he is more a collector than a bookseller though poor and i verily believe that he would sell all his children douglas bell percy bell hobbie bell and kinmont bell for a song
010226_9841_000033 it is hardly possible to guess the biographers of surtees maintain that he wanted to try his skill on scott then only known to him by correspondence and that having succeeded he was afraid to risk scott's friendship by a confession
010226_9841_000034 by the way did it ever strike you that the roman cribbed that line as the vulgar say from an epigram in the anthology and you and i will scarce throw the first stone at the poor man's folly
010226_9841_000035 i was that overcome to have such a partner proposed to me as i had to ring and ask the young woman immediate for a small glass of their oldest rum
010226_9841_000036 it is in a less unlikely place that i have made a little discovery which will interest you i hope for as it chances not only has a lost ballad been at least partially recovered but
010226_9841_000037 however i will keep your learned patience on the tenterhooks for a while business taking me to newcastle of late i found myself in bell's little shop on the quay
010226_9841_000038 she hath lit with it my study fire and it is fortunate indeed that i had made the copy of the ballad for you but the volume of the coquillart is alive to testify to the authenticity of the poem which after all is needless evidence as not even ritson could suspect of either the skill or the malice of such a forgery
010226_9841_000039 no literary forgeries were ever much better done than the sham ballads which surtees of mainsforth imposed on sir walter scott the poems were spirited and good of their kind
010226_9841_000040 as you may have seen it in the small sweet shops at a penny and her hands as white as her papistry cap and a turning up of her nose at what i had took and presuming to give me advice about nothing
010226_9841_000041 so i ups and gives her a bit of my mind and mrs todgers coming down it's she goes or me says i for never will sairey gamp nuss sick or monthly with a pardner as has not confidence in me nor i in her but contrary
010226_9841_000042 whereby mrs harris she have often said to me what do them blessed infants occupy their little minds with afore they are called into that condition where unless changed at nuss providence have appointed them
010226_9841_000043 this is plausible and if good may come out of evil we may remember that two picturesque parts of marmion are due to one confessed and another certain supercherie of surtees
010226_9841_000044 thus it appears that surtees did not forge hobbie noble in the first edition of the minstrelsy for he makes some suggestions as to the earl over whitfield dreaded by the hero of that ballad which scott had already published
010226_9841_000045 lying on the top of a heap of rubbish boston's crook in the lot the pilgrim's progress and other chapbook trumpery i do not know what good angel that watches over us collectors made me take up the thing which i found to be nothing less than a copy of old guillaume cookelar
010226_9841_000046 i have nussed a many lunacies betsy and in a general way i am dispoged to humour them rather than set them right up again the fire when fractious but this pecksniff is the tryingest creature he have got it in his mind as he is somebody very high
010226_9841_000047 it was not galliot du pre's edition in lettres rondes but still more precious had it only been complete an example in black letter i give you the whole title first the motto in the frieze of an architectural design agratho twoque
010226_9841_000048 however i am delaying your natural eagerness so now for the story of my great discovery as our friend bell would scarce let his dusty broadsheet lumber out of his hands i was turning to leave him in no very good humour when i noticed a small and rather long octavo in dirty and crumpled vellum
010226_9841_000049 and talking about the house and bills and clauses and the sacred cause of universal anarchy for such was his bible language though meaning to me no more than the babe unborn
010226_9841_000050 to literary imposition as tending to obscure the path of inquiry ritson gave no quarter says this arch literary impostor a brief account of surtees labour in the field of sham ballad writing may be fresh to many people who merely know him as the real author of barthram's dirge
010226_9841_000051 then she says she'll go and speak to the doctor about it and out she tramps with her nose in the air and sneezing most awful not being accustomed to that which i take find it strengthening
010226_9841_000052 the slaying of anthony featherstonhaugh in an undated letter of eighteen o six scott writing from ashestiel thanks surtees for his obliging communications surtees manifestly began the correspondence being attracted by the border minstrelsy
010226_9841_000053 but as it have been a cause of sorrow and strife let it be nameless between you and me for to have the name snuffey brought forward it is what the heart can forgive but never forget in this valley of the shaddock
010226_9841_000054 it cannot be said in his defense that he had no conception of the mischief of literary frauds in more than one passage of his correspondence he mentions ritson's detestation of these practices
010226_9841_000055 in his note bore the minstrelsy second edition eighteen oh eight scott says the ballad was taken down from an old woman's recitation at the alston moor lead mines by the agent there and sent by him to surtees
010226_9841_000056 but i have ever sacrificed my country's happiness to my own and i will not begin to regulate my life by other rules of conduct now i know the purity of my own motives and while my merry my little sir william playful warbler
010226_9841_000057 that wily person immediately sent scott a ballad on the feud between the ridleys and featherstones in which scott believed to the day of his death he introduced it in marmion the whiles a northern harper rude chaunted a rhyme of deadly feud how the fierce thirlwalls and ridleys all
010226_9841_000058 as to barthram's dirge from ann douglas a withered crone who weeds my garden copies with various tentative verses in surtees hand have been found
010226_9841_000059 so beating down bell from his upset price of fourpence to six bawbees i pushed the treasure carelessly in my pocket and never stopped till i was in a lonely place by tyne side and secure from observation then with my knife i very carefully uncased maistre guillaume
010226_9841_000060 and extracted the sheet of parchment printed in black letter with red capitals that had been used to line the binding a corner of it had crept out
010226_9841_000061 prattles under this patriarchal wing and my cherry my darling morley supports the old man's tottering walk i can do without my goschy my dears i can do without him
010453_10308_000000 all who meet me have a care i am england's guerrire so hull gayly clears for action as he speeds cheery bells had chanted five on the happiest day alive when we yankees dance to quarters at his call
010453_10308_000001 was overhauled by the american forty-four united states and an hour after the action began was reduced to a wreck by the terrible fire of the american a prize crew was put aboard repaired her and got her safely to new york
010453_10308_000002 not yet our brave old general comes to regain the day kentucky to the rescue mississippi to the fray again our line advances gallant davis fronts the foe and back before his rifles in red waves the lancers glow
010453_10308_000003 wind-like the arapahoe sweeps the bison's dusty trail great spaces yet untravelled great lakes whose mystic shores the saxon rifle never heard nor dip of saxon oars
010453_10308_000004 the shannon and the chesapeake june first eighteen thirteen the captain of the shannon came sailing up the bay a reeling wind flung out behind his pennons bright and gay
010453_10308_000005 isaac so did maul and rake her that the decks of captain dacre were in such a woeful pickle as if death with scythe and sickle with his sling or with his shaft had cut his harvest fore and aft
010453_10308_000006 some have already lost their lives and others like to go but few i fear will tell their wives the doleful tale of woe
010453_10308_000007 the number killed was seventy-four prisoners seven hundred sixty-nine wounded two hundred or more who languished in great pain
010453_10308_000008 to carden then in tones so bland our captain cries give me your hand then of the ship who took command but brave yankee boys
010453_10308_000009 let britons still boast of their prowess and pluck we care not a straw for their muskets and cannon in the field we will beat them unless they've the luck to run from their foes like tenedos and shannon
010453_10308_000010 while her cannon's fire is flashing fast and the bellowing thunders roar still still for noble england bold d'acres streamers fly
010453_10308_000011 ye columbians so bold attend while i sing sure treason and treachery's not quite the thing at a time like the present we ought one and all in defence of our rights to stand nobly or fall
010453_10308_000012 and still the storm of battle blew still swelled the gory tide not long our stout old chieftain knew such odds his strength would bide
010453_10308_000013 they stormed at a loss cerro gordo every mile in their movement it cost and when they arrived at puebla some thousands of men they had lost
010453_10308_000014 the lancers dash upon them too the foe swarm ten to one hardin is slain mckee and clay the last time see the sun and many another gallant heart in that last desperate fray grew cold its last thought turning to its loved ones far away
010453_10308_000015 measures so outrageous made war seemingly inevitable but washington through the jay treaty managed to patch up a peace in eighteen o five england hard-pressed by napoleon
010453_10308_000016 before us no roaring of cannon rifle-rattle or musketry peal but there on the ocean of battle surged steady the billow of steel
010453_10308_000017 our ancestors brought it our sages have taught it our washington bought it tis our glory and boast no factions shall ever our government sever but union forever shall be our last toast
010453_10308_000018 where the far nations looked for light a blackness in the air where for words of hope they listened the long wail of despair the crisis presses on us face to face with us it stands with solemn lips of question like the sphinx in egypt's sands
010453_10308_000019 the tall masts of the chesapeake went groaning by the board the shannon's spars were weak with scars when broke cast down his sword now woe he cried to england and shame and woe to me the smoke drove hard to windward and drifted back to lee
010453_10308_000020 but on april twenty-seventh general pike at the head of fifteen hundred men stormed and captured the british fort at york now toronto
010453_10308_000021 now who may she be my mother sir i want you to send the half to her and the rest jack blushed and hung his head i'll buy some schoolin with that he said
010453_10308_000022 our capital fell and the city by foreign invaders was won we called out among its defenders each man who could handle a gun chapultepec stood in their pathway churubusco they had to attack
010453_10308_000023 better soon to be acquainted isaac hailed the lord's anointed while the crew the cannon pointed and the balls were so directed with a blaze so unexpected
010453_10308_000024 the bivouac of the dead the muffled drum's sad roll has beat the soldier's last tattoo no more on life's parade shall meet that brave and fallen few
010453_10308_000025 till the enemy crippled in pride and might struck his crimson flag and gave up the fight then little jack creamer stood once more face to face with the commodore you have got your glory he said my lad and money to make your sweetheart glad
010453_10308_000026 upon them yet once more ye brave the avalanche is stayed back roll the aztec multitudes all broken and dismayed ride may to buena vista for the lancers gain our rear and we have few troops there to check their vehement career
010453_10308_000027 on fame's eternal camping-ground their silent tents are spread and glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead
010453_10308_000028 the kindred of the noble dead as noble deeds should dare the fields whereon their blood was shed a deeper stain must bear to arms to arms ye men of might away from home away the first and foremost in the fight are sure to win the day
010453_10308_000029 no if treason still dwell on columbia's fair shore it shall soon be expelled to reside here no more then rouse ye brave freemen and heed no alarms your dear native country now calls you to arms
010453_10308_000030 defend defend ye heroes and ye sages the gift divine your independence transmit with joy down to future ages how washington achieved your liberty
010453_10308_000031 his cannon crashed a challenge the smoke that hid the sea was driven hard to windward and drifted back to lee the captain of the shannon sent word into the town was lawrence there and would he dare to sail his frigate down
010453_10308_000032 on the land the year opened badly with the disastrous defeat of an american column under general winchester at raisin river michigan
010453_10308_000033 of salt wastes alternating with valleys fat with grain of mountains white with winter looking downward cold serene on their feet with spring vines tangled and lapped in softest green swift through whose black volcanic gates o'er many a sunny vale
010453_10308_000034 but we drive bold dacres back with our muskets snap and crack all the while our crashing broadsides boom and burn 'tis but half an hour bare when that pretty guerriere not a stick calls hers aloft or hers alow
010453_10308_000035 hail to the great ship chesapeake hail to the hero brave who fought her fast and loved her last and shared her sudden grave and glory be to those that died for all eternity they lie apart at the mother heart of god's eternal sea
010453_10308_000036 so shall the northern pioneer go joyful on his way to wed penobscot's waters to san francisco's bay to make the rugged places smooth and sow the vales with grain and bear with liberty and law the bible in his train
010453_10308_000037 sons of the dark and bloody ground ye must not slumber there where stranger steps and tongues resound along the heedless air
010453_10308_000038 our enemy lost her mizzen her main and fore-topmast for every shot with death was winged which slew her men so fast that they lost five to one in killed and ten to one their blood was spilled so fate decreed and heaven had willed
010453_10308_000039 terrapin war huzzah for our liberty boys these are the days of our glory the days of true national joys when terrapins gallop before ye
010453_10308_000040 now here now there the shot is hailed in deadly drifts of fiery spray yet not a single soldier quailed when wounded comrades round them wailed their dying shout at monterey
010453_10308_000041 we were not many we who stood before the iron sleet that day yet many a gallant spirit would give half his years if but he could have been with us at monterey
010453_10308_000042 but the rascals on malice quite fully were bent and as from the fort they were cowardly going in pursuance to what was at first their intent the magazine they had resolved on up-blowing
010453_10308_000043 and then above the mountains rose the cold moon's silver shield and patiently and pitying she looked upon the field while careless of his wounded and neglectful of his dead despairingly and sullenly by night santana fled
010453_10308_000044 after that all their movements were easy at their storming chapultepec fell and that ended the war we were beaten no story is left me to tell and now they come back to invade us though not with the bullet and blade they are here with their goods on a railway
010453_10308_000045 their faint and trembling beams across the blackness of the past and by the blessed thought of him who for earth's freedom died o my people o my brothers let us choose the righteous side
010453_10308_000046 by all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame by all the warning words of truth with which the prophets came by the future which awaits us by all the hopes which cast
010453_10308_000047 away to the battle and count not the cost till the glory you gain which so basely was lost for if treason still dwell on columbia's fair shore by our fathers we swear it shall dwell here no more
010453_10308_000048 still they ride side by side while the bell'wing thunders roar while the cannon's fire is flashing fast and the bell'wing thunders roar
010453_10308_000049 the opponents of the embargo termed the conflict a terrapin war the nation by extinguishing commerce drawing within its own shell like a terrapin and at gatherings of the federalists a song by that title was very popular
010453_10308_000050 he sailed without orders and had the cruise resulted disastrously he would probably have been courtmartialed and shot on the afternoon of august nineteenth a sail was sighted off halifax and proved to be the british frigate guerriere
010453_10308_000051 to conquer the country by trade thomas dunn english chapultepec still remained and on the morning of september thirteenth two storming parties rushed it swarmed over the walls swept back the garrison and planted the american flag on the ramparts
010453_10308_000052 thus baffled in their last attack compelled perforce to yield still menacing in firm array their columns leave the field the guns still roared at intervals but silence fell at last and on the dead and dying came the evening shadows fast
010453_10308_000053 and thus on buena vista's heights a long day's work was done and thus our brave old general another battle won still still our glorious banner waves unstained by flight or shame
010453_10308_000054 laughs a yankee she's a brig says our captain that's too big try another so we'll have her for a sloop we hurrah and fire again lay aboard of her like men and like men they beat us off and try in turn
010453_10308_000055 and for columbia gallant hull's as proudly and as high now louder rings the battle din and thick the volumes pour still they ride side by side while the bellowing thunders roar while the cannon's fire is flashing fast and the bellowing thunders roar
010453_10308_000056 fierce we opened our fire on the column we pierced it with ball here and there but it swept on in pitiless sternness till we faltered and fled in despair
010453_10308_000057 the banner of freedom high floated unfurled while the silver-tipt surges in low homage curled flashing bright round the bow of decatur's brave bark in contest an eagle in chasing a lark
010453_10308_000058 give them one breaking broadside more he cried before we strike but one grim ball that ruined all for hope and home alike laid lawrence low in glory yet from his pallid lip rang to the land his last command boys don't give up the ship
010453_10308_000059 hark tis the briton's lee gun ne'er bolder warrior kneeled and ne'er to gallant mariners did braver seamen yield
010453_10308_000060 the raven's scream or eagle's flight or shepherd's pensive lay alone awakes each sullen height that frowned o'er that dread fray
010453_10308_000061 twas in that hour his stern command called to a martyr's grave the flower of his beloved land the nation's flag to save by rivers of their fathers gore
010453_10308_000062 his first-born laurels grew and well he deemed the sons would pour their lives for glory too full many a northern's breath has swept o'er angostura's plain and long the pitying sky has wept above its mouldered slain
010453_10308_000063 speed speed artillery to the front for the hurricane of fire crushes those noble regiments reluctant to retire speed swiftly gallop ah they come again bragg climbs the ridge and his grape sweeps down the swarming foe as a strong man moweth sedge
010453_10308_000064 the fury which the news of this disaster aroused was tempered by rejoicing for a remarkable victory on the ocean anxious to meet some of the famous british frigates captain isaac hull put out from boston with the constitution on august second
010453_10308_000065 while the british bang away with their broadsides screech and bray but the constitution never fires a ball we send up three times to ask if we shan't begin our task captain hull sends back each time the answer no
010453_10308_000066 this day we fashion destiny our web of fate we spin this day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin even now from starry gerizim or ebal's cloudy crown we call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down
010453_10308_000067 when freemen are insulted they send forth vengeful thunder determined to maintain their rights strike the foe with wonder they cheerfully will toil to cultivate the soil and rather live on humble fare than feast ignobly
010453_10308_000068 the wounded wept like women when they hauled her ensign down men's cheeks were pale as with the tale from hingham to the town they hurried in swift silence while toward the eastern night the victor bore away from shore and vanished out of sight
010453_10308_000069 till to half a pistol-shot the two frigates he had brought then he whispers lay along and we let go twice our broadside lights and lifts and the briton crippled drifts with her mizzen dangling hopeless at her poop
010453_10308_000070 for brave yankee boys then homeward steered the captive ship now safe in port she lies the old and young with rapture viewed our sailors noble prize through seas of wine their health we'll drink and wish them sweethearts friends and chink
010453_10308_000071 park benjamin by the last of august taylor had whipped his army into shape and began to advance on monterey a town believed to be impregnable and where general arista had collected an army of ten thousand men
010453_10308_000072 side by side son and father with hoary head struggle for triumph or death on a gory bed hark to the charge the war-hail is pattering the foe through our ranks red rain is scattering huzza forward no halting or flagging till proudly the red stripes float o'er yon rocky hill
010453_10308_000073 o the guerrire so bold on the foaming ocean rolled commanded by dacres the grandee o for the choice of british crew that a rammer ever drew could beat the frenchmen two to one quite handy o
010453_10308_000074 save the mizzen's shattered mast where her meteor flag's nailed fast till a fallen star we quench its ruddy glow
010453_10308_000075 let the proud deeds of your fathers inspire ye still think ye of monmouth and princeton and bunker hill come from your hallowed grace famous in story shades of our heroes and lead us to glory
010453_10308_000076 the chesapeake so bold out of boston i've been told came to take a british frigate neat and handy-o while the people of the port flocked out to see the sport with their music playing yankee doodle dandy-o
010453_10308_000077 speak and tell us our ximena looking northward far away over the camp of the invaders over the mexican array who is losing who is winning are they far or come they near look abroad and tell us sister whither rolls the storm we hear
010453_10308_000078 there's porter and grundy and rhea in congress who manfully vapor who draw their six dollars a day and fight bloody battles on paper ah this is true terrapin war
010453_10308_000079 when prisoners we've made them with switchell we will treat them we will treat them with yankee doodle dandy o the british balls flew hot but the yankees answered not until they got a distance that was handy o
010453_10308_000080 the mighty west shall bless the east and sea shall answer sea and mountain unto mountain call praise god for we are free john greenleaf whittier
010453_10308_000081 proud be the sires whose hardy boys then fell to fight no more with the brave mid the wave with the cannon's thunders roar
010453_10308_000082 hence be our floating bulwark those oaks our mountains yield 'tis mighty heaven's plain decree then take the watery field
010453_10308_000083 the brave general pike there met with his end but his virtues his country forever will cherish and while o'er his grave fair freedom shall bend she will swear that his memory never shall perish
010453_10308_000084 death revels high in the midst of the bloody sport bursting in flame from each black throated castle port press on the line with keen sabres dripping wet cheer as ye smite with the death dealing bayonet
010453_10308_000085 the gay floating streamers of britain appear waving light on the breeze as the stranger we near and now could the quick-sighted yankee discern macedonian emblazoned at large on her stern
010453_10308_000086 the volunteers eighteen forty-nine the volunteers the volunteers i dream as in the bygone years i hear again their stirring cheers and see their banners shine
010453_10308_000087 wide o'er the valley the pennons are fluttering war's sullen story the deep guns are muttering forward blue jackets in good steady order strike for the fame of your good northern border forever shall history tell of the bloody check waiting the foe at the siege of chapultepec
010453_10308_000088 then bring up your regulars lads in attitude nothing ye lack sirs ye'll frighten to death the danads with fire-coals blazing aback sirs oh this is true terrapin war
010611_10308_000000 columbia appear let thy cloud minstrels wake as they march on the storm all the grandeur of song till the far mountain reel and the billowless lake shall be mantled in froth and its monarch shall quake on his green oozy throne
010611_10308_000001 i see columbia joyously her palmy circlet throw around his high victorious brow who laid her foemen low
010611_10308_000002 fierce lightnings gleam and thunders roar while round and grape in torrents pour and echo through the skies sirs when minutes forty-five had flown behold the briton's colors down she's yielded up a prize sirs
010611_10308_000003 to be equal in combat was all our delight as we wished the proud britons to know we could fight and whether like yeo boys they'd taken affright we could see not nor find them by day or by night
010611_10308_000004 strike the sounding string of fame o lyre beat loud ye drums ye clarion blasts exalt his name behold the hero comes
010611_10308_000005 oh they will remember the tenth of september when their souls were let loose in a tempest of flame and wide erie shook at the trumpet of fame
010611_10308_000006 the foe of twice our force nears us fast to your posts my faithful tars mind your rigging guns and spars and defend your stripes and stars to the last
010611_10308_000007 then slowly tacking to and fro more near the cruisers made to see what force unheralded had flown to walbach's aid
010611_10308_000008 one stormy cloud its lip upblew and as its thunder rolled old england saw above the smoke new england's flag unfold
010611_10308_000009 one moment and nought but the bugle was heard and nought but the war whoop given the next and the sky seemed convulsively stirred as if by the lightning riven
010611_10308_000010 fierce the storm of battle pours but unmoved as ocean's rock when the tempest round it roars every seaman breasts the shock boldly stepping where his brave messmates fall
010611_10308_000011 at the captain's bold command flew each sailor to his gun and resolved he there would stand though the odds was two to one to defend his flag and ship with his life
010611_10308_000012 the moment was fearful a mightier foe had never swung the battle-axe over him but hope nerved his arm for a desperate blow and tecumseh fell prostrate before him
010611_10308_000013 the din of the steed as the sabred stroke the blood-stifled gasp of the dying were screened by the curling sulphur smoke that upward went wildly flying
010611_10308_000014 o'er his head full oft and loud like the vulture in a cloud as it cuts the twanging shroud screams the ball
010611_10308_000015 we let loose our thunder our bullets did fly now give them your shot boys our commander did cry we gave them a broadside our cannon to try well done says brave perry for quarter they'll cry
010611_10308_000016 shot well home my brave boys they shortly shall see that quite brave as they are still braver are we then we drew up our squadron each man full of fight and put the proud britons in a terrible plight the brave perry's movements will prove fully as bold
010611_10308_000017 that steed reeled and fell in the van of the fight but the rider repressed not his daring till met by a savage whose rank and might were shown by the plume he was wearing
010611_10308_000018 so cruising we went in a glorious cause in defense of our rights our freedom and laws at left to our liking six sails hove in view huzzah says brave perry huzzah says his crew
010611_10308_000019 high on every mast displayed god our country and free trade e'en the bravest braver made for the strife
010611_10308_000020 in the mist that hung over the field of blood the chief of the horsemen contended his rowels were bathed in purple flood that fast from his charger descended
010611_10308_000021 and then for the chase boys with our brave little crew we fell in with the bullies and gave them burgoo though the force was unequal determined to fight we brought them to action before it was night
010611_10308_000022 as the famed admiral nelson's prowess of old the conflict was sharp boys each man to his gun for our country her glory the victory was won
010611_10308_000023 he fought in defence of his kindred and king with a spirit most loving and loyal and long shall the indian warrior sing the deeds of tecumseh the royal
010611_10308_000024 it was just at sunrise and a glorious day our squadron at anchor snug in put-in-bay when we saw the bold britains and cleared for a bout instead of put in by the lord we put out
010611_10308_000025 the lightning of intellect flashed from his eye in his arm slept the force of the thunder but the bolt passed the suppliant harmlessly by and left the freed captive to wonder
010611_10308_000026 above near the path of the pilgrim he sleeps with a rudely built tumulus over him and the bright bosomed thames in his majesty sweeps by the mound where his followers bore him
010611_10308_000027 gloom silence and solitude rest on the spot where the hopes of the red man perished but the fame of the hero who fell shall not by the virtuous cease to be cherished
010611_10308_000028 before the siroc blast from its iron caverns driven drops the seared and shivered mast by the bolt of battle riven and higher heaps the ruin of the deck as the sailor bleeding dies to his comrades lifts his eyes
010611_10308_000029 long live the gallant crew who survived that day of blood and may fortune soon renew equal battle on the flood
010611_10308_000030 long live the glorious names of the brave o'er these martyrs of the deep oft the roving tar shall weep crying sweetly may they sleep neath the wave
010611_10308_000031 tis not the sullen plunge of the dead but the self-devoted tar who to grace the victor's car scorns from home and friends afar to be led
010611_10308_000032 let our flag still wave he cries o'er the wreck in echo to the sponge hark along the silent lee oft is heard the solemn plunge in the bosom of the sea
010611_10308_000033 up went union-jack never up there before don't give up the ship was the motto it bore and as soon as that motto our gallant lads saw they thought of their lawrence and shouted huzza
010611_10308_000034 with the opening of the spring of eighteen fourteen the campaign along the canadian border was begun with unusual activity the army there was under major general jacob brown
010611_10308_000035 oh then it would have raised your hat three inches higher to see how we dash'd in among them like fire the lawrence went first and the rest as they could and a long time the brunt of the action she stood
010611_10308_000036 as their harping comes strong with the chime of the winds as they're bursting along for he will remember the tenth of september when he saw his dominions all covered with foam and heard the loud war in its echoless home
010611_10308_000037 more ill at ease was never man than walbach that lord's day when spent with speed a trawler cried a war-ship heads this way
010611_10308_000038 huzzah once more for yankee skill et cetera the victory gained we count the cost we mourn indeed a hero lost
010611_10308_000039 twas peppering work fire fury and smoke and groans that from wounded lads spite of them broke the water grew red round our ship as she lay though 'twas never before so till that bloody day
010611_10308_000040 o'er huron's wave the sun was low the weary soldier watched the bow fast fading from the cloud below the dashing of niagara and while the phantom chained his sight ah little thought he of the fight
010611_10308_000041 the british took care to maintain as strictly as possible the blockade of the american coast and the coast towns were kept in a constant state of terror lest they be bombarded and burned
010611_10308_000042 they fell all around me like spars in a gale the shot made a sieve of each rag of a sail and out of our crew scarce a dozen remained but these gallant tars still the battle maintained
010611_10308_000043 take him fame for thine he is on silvery columns rear the name of scott whence envious time shall ne'er its honors tear
010611_10308_000044 haste haste thee scott to meet the foe and let the scornful briton know well strung the arm and firm the blow of him who strikes for liberty
010611_10308_000045 colombia's banner flows as proud her gallant band around it crowd and swear to guard or make their shroud the starred flag of liberty
010611_10308_000046 his pipe half filled to shatters flew he climbed the ridge of knolls and turning spy-glass toward the east swept the long reach of shoals
010611_10308_000047 an hour he watched behind his back the portsmouth spires waxed red its harbor like a field of war a brazen shield overhead
010611_10308_000048 whole volleys of muskets were levell'd at him but the devil a one ever grazed e'en a limb though he stood up aloft in the stern of the boat till the crew pull'd him down by the skirt of his coat
010611_10308_000049 again the colonel scanned the east where soon white gleams arose behind star isle they first appeared then flashed o'er smuttynose fleet-winged they left duck isle astern when rounding full in view lo in the face of appledore
010611_10308_000050 the horrors of the dreamless night that posted on so rapidly soon soon is fled each softer charm the drum and trumpet sound alarm and bid each warrior nerve his arm for boldest deeds of chivalry
010611_10308_000051 i steer'd her and damme if every inch of these timbers of mine at each crack didn't flinch but our tight little commodore cool and serene to stir ne'er a muscle by any was seen
010611_10308_000052 twas then our commander god bless his young heart thought it best from his well-peppered ship to depart and bring up the rest who were tugging behind for why they were sadly in want of a wind
010611_10308_000053 another hour the sundown gun the sabbath stillness brake when loud a second voice hallowed two war-ships hither make
010611_10308_000054 so to yarnall he gave the command of his ship and set out like a lark on this desperate trip in a small open yawl right through their whole fleet who with many a broadside our cockboat did greet
010611_10308_000055 the burning red cross waving high like meteor in the evening sky proclaims the haughty foemen nigh to try the strife of rivalry
010611_10308_000056 three britishers hove to to arms o townsfolk walbach cried behold these black hawk three whether they pluck old portsmouth town rests now with you and me
010611_10308_000057 in order to draw british ships from this blockade the government adopted the policy of sending light squadrons into distant seas and in october eighteen twelve
010611_10308_000058 the guns of kittery and mine may keep the channel clear if but one pintle stone be raised toward me in the rear but scarce a score my muster roll the earthworks lie unmanned whereof some mouthing spy no doubt has made them understand
010611_10308_000059 columbia appear be thine olive displayed oh cheer with thy smile all the land and the tide be the anthem we hear not the song that was made when the victims of slaughter stood forth
010611_10308_000060 and if ere dawn their long boat keels once kiss the nether sands my porthole's mouth is stopped and we be in their hands
010611_10308_000061 charge miller charge the foe once more and louder than niagara's roar along the line is heard encore on on to death or victory from line to line with lurid glow
010611_10308_000062 behind the hills descends the sun the work of death is but begun and red through twilight's shadows done blazes the volleyed musketry
010611_10308_000063 the detroit and queen charlotte and lady prevost not able to fight or run gave up the ghost and not one of them all from our grapplings got free though we'd fifty-four guns and they just sixty-three
010611_10308_000064 and thou o albion quake with dread ye veterans shrink the while whene'er his glorious name shall sound to shake your sea-girt isle poem by charles l s jones
010611_10308_000065 then starboard and larboard and this way and that we banged them and raked them and laid their masts flat till one after t'other they hauled down their flag and an end for that time put to johnny bull's brag
010611_10308_000066 loud loud the din of battle rings shrill through the ranks the bullet sings and onward fierce each foeman springs to meet his peer in gallantry
010611_10308_000067 at last through heaven's mercy we reached the other ship and the wind springing up we gave her the whip and run down their line boys through thick and through thin and bothered their crews with a horrible din
010611_10308_000068 who fell in the fight so gloriously oh long her crescent wax and wane ere she behold such fray again such dismal night such heaps of slain foe mixed with foe promiscuously
010611_10308_000069 immediately on receiving the surrender perry wrote with a pencil on the back of an old letter using his cap for a desk his famous message
010611_10308_000070 then straightway from his place upspake the parson of the town let us beseech heaven's blessing first and all the folk knelt down
010611_10308_000071 o god our hands are few and faint our hope rests all with thee lend us thy hand in this sore strait and thine the glory be
010611_10308_000072 amen amen the chorus rose amen the pines replied and through the churchyard's rustling grass an amen softly sighed
010611_10308_000073 and though britons may brag of their ruling the ocean and that sort of thing by the lord i've a notion i'll bet all i'm worth who takes it who takes though they're lords of the sea we'll be the lords of the lakes
010611_10308_000074 astir the village was awhile with hoof and iron clang then all grew still save where aloft a hundred trowels rang
010611_10308_000075 with silent tread the watchman steals among the dead to guard his comrade's lowly bed till morning give him sepulture low in the west of splendor shorn the midnight moon with bloody horn sheds her last beam on him forlorn
010611_10308_000076 the horrid battle fray is done no longer beats the furious drum to death to death or victory all all is still
010611_10308_000077 now give us a bumper to elliott and those who came up in good time to belabor our foes to our fresh water sailors we'll toss off one more and a dozen at least to our young commodore
010611_10308_000078 smite my limbs but they all got their bellies full then and found what it was boys to buckle with men who fight or what's just the same think that they fight for their country's free trade and their own native right
010611_10308_000079 high arching shoots the rocket's bow and lights the mingled scene below of carnage death and misery the middle watch has now begun
010611_10308_000080 perry's victory a song september the tenth eighteen thirteen columbia appear to thy mountains ascend and pour thy bold hymn to the winds and the woods
010611_10308_000081 and one who wrought still tells the tale that as his task he plied an unseen fellow form he felt that labored at his side
010611_10308_000082 dame tarlton's apron crisp at dawn helps hold the yellow bricks while pilot cooper mackerelman parson and squire as well make haste to plant the pintle gun and raise its citadel
010611_10308_000083 four flax-haired boys of amazeen the flickering torches stay peopling with titan shadow groups the canopy of gray grandsires with frost above their brows the steaming mortar mix
010611_10308_000084 columbia appear o'er thy tempest-harp bend and far to the nations its trumpet-song send let thy cliff-echoes wake
010611_10308_000085 the foe has now been taught again his streamers cannot shade the main while yankees live to share them huzza once more for yankee skill
010611_10308_000086 sing the chief who gloriously from england's veteran band plucked the wreaths of victory to grace his native land
010611_10308_000087 we have met the enemy and they are ours two ships two brigs one schooner and one sloop end of the quote and  dispatched it to general harrison
010611_10308_000088 colonel winfield scott commanded a battalion at this battle and by a series of desperate charges drove the british from the field
010611_10308_000089 the ships came together off monhegan on september the fifth eighteen thirteen and after a fierce fight lasting an hour the englishman surrendered
010611_10308_000090 none supped they say that lord's-day eve none slept they say that night but all night long with tireless arms each toiled as best he might
010611_10308_000091 and still to wondering ears relates that as each brick was squared lo unseen trowels clinked response and a new course prepared
010611_10308_000092 where bridgewater's war-famed stream saw the foemen reel thrice repulsed with burnished gleam of bayonet knife and steel
010611_10308_000093 seize o seize the sounding lyre with its quivering string strike the chords in ecstasy whilst loud the valleys ring
010611_10308_000094 all arrayed in blood dripping garments and shouted and died let the hymning of peace over the blue heavens ride oh let us remember the tenth of september when the dark waves of erie were brightened today
010611_10308_000095 the brave are very generous still but teach the foes submission now twice three times his flag we've gained and more much more can be obtained upon the same condition
010611_10308_000096 oh night of nights the blinking dawn beheld the marvel done and from the new martello boomed the echoing morning gun
010611_10308_000097 the thirty-two gun frigate essex captain david porter sailed to join the constitution and hornet for a cruise in the indian ocean porter failed to find the other ships and decided to double cape horn and cruise in the pacific
010611_10308_000098 and its crimsoned waters run red with gurgling flow as albion's gathering hosts his arm his mighty arm laid low
010611_10308_000099 and while we notice deeds of fame in which the gallant honors claim as heroes of our story name of blyth a meed demands whose tomb is decked by freemen's hands who well deserve the glory
010611_10308_000100 he captured a number of prizes and completely destroyed british commerce in the south pacific a strong force of british cruisers was sent out to intercept him
010839_10213_000000 there could not be a better time for alexis to make his inquiry without having to present himself in a formal manner to his old acquaintance missus hazelton is at scarborough wth children governess and fernme de chambre
010839_10213_000001 but simply because london in august is unendurable baking pavements scorched verdure dust and grime on everything and a sense of desertion in all those regions which the upper ten thousand and a considerable portion of the lower million inhabit
010839_10213_000002 he is swayed to and fro by diverse passions as he writes this letter now all bitterness now fond unreasoning love he has not the courage to read over his effusion but seals and addresses it hastily and hurries back to lowther street
010839_10213_000003 i will come dear and all the past all that you have made me suffer shall be forgotten and forgiven in the rapture of our reunion yours forever if you will have it so alexis
010839_10213_000004 i'll tell you what young man says the cook with asperity my missus is out of town and we don't want no airy sneaks loafing about while she's away and it ain't no good for them to loaf adds the sandy-haired young man who has not shaved for the last day or two
010839_10213_000005 i'm not a follower answers alexis but i want to see jane dimond alone for five minutes on business the countenances of cook and footman plainly express an apprehension that this is the beginning of a deep laid scheme against the family plate
010839_10213_000006 he builds a delightful castle in the air and looks so well fed upon this nutriment of hope that samuel plowden scrutinizes him with a serio-comic expression when he returns to the outer office after his interview with mr keel
010839_10213_000007 mr keel is pleased with mr secretan's suggestions you're about the only fellow i ever sent out who seems to understand the australian trade he says approvingly and i shall push you young man mark my words i shall push you
010839_10213_000008 cheered by this assurance alexis thinks what a nice thing it will be for him to go back to sidney with his wife and child for his companions if sibyl will but show herself true metal after all and if his child lives two formidable ifs
010839_10213_000009 and whose chin is adorned with a tawny stubble like a newly cut wheat field the plate has all been sent to the bank alexis fairly bursts out laughing is there so much difference between a chimney-pot hat and a wide awake between poole and a colonial tailor he says to himself
010839_10213_000010 and a well-spring of heart-burning and annoyance to its proprietor mr keel is a gentleman who talks of thousands as nieaner people talk of sixpences and is rumoured to have started in life thirty years ago as a stevedore and to have founded his fortunes upon the ill-gotten gains supposed to be inseparable from that function
010839_10213_000011 and then he adds aloud if one of you simpletons will take the trouble to call jane dimond she will be able to tell you that i'm a gentleman and that i have not come after the teaspoons or the umbrellas i'll wait in the street for her you can tell her that a gentleman from australia wants a few words with her
010839_10213_000012 jane dimond appears promptly and divining his impatience gives him the expected letter without a word he wrings her hand in speechless gratitude as if the letter were a boon from her bids her a brief goodnight and goes away with his prize
010839_10213_000013 he would rather read the letter in the street unwatched than open it ill misses hazleton's hall under the housemaid's friendly eyes yes it is from sybal in the hand he knows so well
010839_10213_000014 they see jane gesticulate as in extreme surprise at sight of alexis and then the two walk a little further off quite out of earshot to the aggravation of jane's fellow servants
010839_10213_000015 why i thought you came home on sick leave youngster says the kindly clerk by jupiter i never saw anyone looking better all the effect of the voyage mr plowden i assure you i was a shadow when i went on board at sidney
010839_10213_000016 whose curiosity is by this time raised to the highest pitch i shouldn't wonder if he was some aristocratic half brother of hers says cook who is a devoted student of reynolds's mysteries of london life is full of family secrets and such like
010839_10213_000017 cook and footman whisper doubtfully for half a minute and then shut the door upon mr secretan leaving him to infer their acquiescence with his request
010839_10213_000018 the second day after mister secretan's interview with jane diamond has come and in the evening alexis knocks at the familiar door in lowther street with a heart that seems to beat louder than the knocker
010839_10213_000019 he paces the pavement for five minutes or so and then the good-natured jane dimond comes down the steps while cook and footman stand in the doorway to watch the proceedings
010839_10213_000020 dearest dearest dearest there is love's foolish rapture in a gush of pen and ink thank god for your dear letter though it is not altogether kind still it promises forgiveness for my wrongdoing and that is much thank god for the knowledge that you are living and well
010839_10213_000021 the blinds are all down save one of the venetians in the dining room which is drawn up about halfway and in the space thus exposed to view the comfortable round face of mrs hazleton's cook and the lanky countenance of mrs hazleton's sandy haired footman
010839_10213_000022 lor sir says jane dimond when she has recovered the shock of surprise i thought you was dead and gone did you jane why because i fancied if you was in the land of the livin' you wouldn't have turned a deaf ear to that advertisement what advertisement
010839_10213_000023 there is no difficulty about admittance this time jane diamond opens the door receives the letter and promises to post it that evening it is too late for any of the provincial mails but it is something to be assured that there shall be no needless delay
010839_10213_000024 the advertisement as miss faunthoipo i beg pardon mrs it never mind the name gl tell me all about the advertisement jane explains herself in a roundabout way but in due course alexis knows all that jane knows except his wife's present abode that the girl refuses to tell even to him
010839_10213_000025 the last letter he received from her was that cruel renunciation that most heartless farewell the loosening nay the severing of every link between them she writes to him again there is communion between them once more the thought thrilled him she begins well at all events
010839_10213_000026 in a very little while dear my most anxious hopes will be realized the realization is so near that it would be worse than folly to sacrifice those hopes now as i must sacrifice them if i were to obey you and say come to me
010839_10213_000027 no i won't send her no telegraphs lest i should get her into trouble with her friends i'll write to her inexorable girl is she in the country yes
010839_10213_000028 i long to see you my heart aches my soul sickens at the thought that we must wait for the hour of reunion but i am not so weak a slave to impulse as to abandon my prize just as it is almost won we must wait dearest
010839_10213_000029 i can say yes to both those questions i am on the road to high fortune fortune which you and i will share in happy days to come if you are as true to me as i am to you though seeming estranged
010839_10213_000030 and the country post is gone ever so long i shall have to wait twenty-four hours before you can get her answer i can't help that says jane with an inflexible air she's trusted me and i'll do my duty by her as you've stayed away so long it can't hurt you to stay a little longer
010839_10213_000031 my heart grew very heavy when that advertisement of mine remained unanswered you ask me if my scheme of life has realized what i counted upon if my hopes have prospered
010839_10213_000032 she told me to keep it a secret and i'm not going to tell no one without her permission says jane resolutely this resolve the husband combats but in vain i'll ask her leave to tell you and when i've got her leave i'll tell you answers jane wild horses wouldn't move me from that
010839_10213_000033 telegraph to her then directly cries alexis taking out a handful of silver come with me to the nearest telegraph office and i'll write the message for you you can put in the address yourself
010839_10213_000034 no it don't answers jane taking a tiny slip of paper out of her shabby old portemonnaie the advertisement says nothing of the kind she reads as follows
010839_10213_000035 see here jane says alexis unfolding a five-pound note here's something to buy you a silk gown for sundays now don't you think that you could contrive to tell me the address at once you know my wife wishes to see me the advertisement says that
010839_10213_000036 true to the fair young governess whose donations of lace and ribbon soiled gloves darned stockings and friendly smiles had won her heart years ago
010839_10213_000037 s s to alexis you are not forgotten in all i do i am faithful to your interests i look forward to our reunion wait and hope as i do write and tell me where you are and what you are doing address s s post office hale street pimlico
010839_10213_000038 write to me dear husband from time to time and let me write to you but let our correspondence pass through the hands of that good girl jane dimond i know your impulsive nature and i cannot trust you with my address for fear you should come here and destroy all my plans
010839_10213_000039 i ask from you patience and trust i give you my daily prayers my nightly dreams there is no wrong-doing in my scheme of life i injure no one least of all do i wrong you i only forego the happiness of sharing your life for a little while in order to make it brighter afterwards
010839_10213_000040 i am known in my present circle only as miss faunthorpe all my hopes would be shipwrecked if i stood confessed as mrs secretan yet believe me there is no shadow of wrong to you in this concealment it is for our mutual welfare
010839_10213_000041 stayed away so long cruel girl don't you know that it was she who left me whatever she did i make no doubt she did it for the best answers jane
010839_10213_000042 is she mad alexis asks himself indignantly after reading this letter does she think i am to be put off with loving words and assurances of constancy does she suppose that she can keep at a distance by concealing her address and writing to me under cover to a housemaid
010839_10213_000043 i'll go to a coffeehouse and write to her and bring the letter to you to post there's the silk gown for you all the same jane to show that i bear no malice oh sir cries the housemaid overcome by this generosity i couldn't think
010839_10213_000044 a footman whose visage is happily unfamiliar to alexis exhibit themselves cook and footman are engaged in looking out of the window there is not much for them to see in lowther street on this august evening
010839_10213_000045 i shall call for the answer the day after tomorrow in the evening you ought to have it by that time says alexis and it seems to him that the interval will be an unendurable space of time
010839_10213_000046 there you see exclaims jane triumphant there's not a word about wanting to see you she only wants to hear from you heartless woman mutters alexis yet i'm glad she was just a little anxious to know my fate
010839_10213_000047 neither exile nor the sense of her unkindness have been strong enough to exclude her from his heart he may pretend to himself and to his friend dick plowden that he has ceased to love his wife that he seeks his child alone
010839_10213_000048 i have contrived to live somehow though indignation against your cruelty has lacerated my heart and love for the wife who deserted me has proved an incurable disease
010839_10213_000049 you needn't think about it you've only to take the money and buy your gown i'll go and write my letter he goes to the nearest coffee house and writes to sibyl there is a touch of bitterness in the composition though his wounded heart is full of love for her all the time
010839_10213_000050 but the mere fact that she has sought to obtain tidings of him is enough to melt his heart to change pride and anger to love and pardon whatever the exalted sphere in which you now move he writes you may be glad to know that your desertion has not quite been the death of me
010839_10213_000051 write and answer all these questions freely and fully if you recognise the tie which in the sight of god and man makes us two one tell me about our child the infant i have never seen yet whose baby face has haunted my dreams
010839_10213_000052 there are some people whose houses never change people whose habitations are in a manner symbolical of their lives and whose even tenor of existence nothing less than the undertaker can overthrow
010839_10213_000053 i have not starved or been driven to hang myself and i have come back from the other side of the world because i have a foolish hankering to know the fate of the woman who swore at the altar to love honour and obey me and kept her vow by abandoning me in my darkest hour of need
010839_10213_000054 where are you sibyl and with whom what has been your reward for deserting me has your scheme of life been a wise one have your hopes prospered
010839_10213_000055 you have given your babe to the care of strangers perhaps but i conclude you have watched over its welfare tell me further if there are in your life prosperous as it may be some few weaker moments when your heart yearns for reunion with the husband you once loved
010839_10213_000056 mrs hazleton is one of these eminently respectable personages she has occupied the house in lowther street for the last ten years she has gone to the seaside every year of those ten
010839_10213_000057 and at exactly the same period has returned after the same interval has given her great parties at the same seasons and has lived a methodical and prosperous existence with satisfaction to herself and her neighbours and with considerable profit to the surrounding shopkeepers
010839_10213_000058 but it is a relief to be above ground for a little while after the twilight of those underground dungeons to which the london domestic is confined alexis mounts the steps and knocks and rings under the calm survey of those two pair of eyes
010839_10213_000059 when the london season is over mrs hazleton goes to the seaside not because she belongs to that flight of fashionable swallows who follow pleasure's summer from clime to clime
010839_10213_000060 but no love i will show you an easier way do not stop to answer one of these questions write sibyl from your heart to mine tell me in three words to come to you and i will come
010839_10213_000061 he thinks about that advertisement as he goes back to the brompton road sibyl must have  cared for him a little despite her heartless abandonment of him or she would not have felt this anxiety to be informed of his fate
010839_10213_000062 the sandy haired footman is not impressed by mr secretan's appearance alexis is carelessly dressed in garments of a colonial cut a velveteen shooting jacket a soft felt hat clothes chosen for ease and hard wear rather than for fashion
010839_10213_000063 she would not have committed herself by an act likely to entangle her fate with his once having released herself from him she would have held herself altogether aloof she would have stretched no friendly hand across the gulf if she had not loved him
010839_10213_000064 her heart was still his he tells himself when she made that appeal to him whatever her scheme of life whatever game she was playing her heart was true to him
010839_10213_000065 is there a young woman called dimond in service here now asks alexis dunno i'm shaw replies the flunkey with another yawn what do you want with her
010839_10213_000066 comforted by this assurance he is inclined to be wondrously indulgent to forgive much should she but prove herself worthy to be forgiven he tries to occupy himself with hard-headed business during that weary interval in which he waits for sibyl's reply
010839_10213_000067 the footman yawns audibly and when reminded of his duties by a nudge from cook's plump elbow mutters contemptuously oh hang it that fellow can wait you know and then withdraws himself lazily from his post of observation and anon opens the street door a little way filling the opening with his person
010839_10213_000068 he is well received and his views approved by mr keel the senior partner a gentleman with large ideas a palatial villa on clapham common vineries pineries succession houses and a stable which is a perennial source of profit to the horse dealers and the veterinary surgeon
010839_10213_000069 of course it is you might have known answers cook who has come into the hall and now contemplates alexis over the youth's shoulder what do you want with jane dimond she inquires sharply there's no followers allowed here
010839_10213_000070 we won't go into particulars till you find out whether she's still here answers alexis coolly perhaps you will condescend so far as to inquire of your fellow servant hi cooky bawls the footman what's our jane's name diamond ain't it
010839_10213_000071 he goes down to monsieur keel and skrew's office and enters upon the discussion of certain extensions and improvements in the australian branch of the business improvements which his experience of the colony has suggested to him
010839_10682_000000 but now perceiving the turn which matters had taken and that she herself was most solicitous to hush up the affair for the credit of her establishment i saw that no exposure awaited me and that i might save adeline from disgrace and ruin without farther compromising myself
010839_10682_000001 as i was hurried along in the post-chaise i looked ever and anon from the window oh there were the same objects i had before observed there they were apparently unchanged but i my god was i the same
010839_10682_000002 nevertheless day after day i resolved to abandon my present mode of life retrace my steps to the home of my childhood throw myself at my father's feet confess all my errors implore his blessing and devote the remainder of my existence to penitence and virtue
010839_10682_000003 then we had travelled by the coach and not so rapidly as i was now retracing the same path then too i had marked many of the most prominent features on the road and in the adjacent country here a church there a picturesque farm a cottage a mill or a hamlet
010839_10682_000004 my brain was a whirlwind my soul was a chaos and it was only with considerable mental effort that i could separate and classify my ideas in the slightest degree
010839_10682_000005 and then induce to accompany them to their aunt's where they would meet some delightful girls of course this was mrs harpy's establishment the respectable country gentleman or clergyman was plied with more liquor and if he would not drink fast enough his wine was drugged for him
010839_10682_000006 my private residence is close by said the captain and if the ladies would take shelter there until the rain is over they shall be treated with as much respect as if they were at home well on that condition exclaimed miss enfield we will assent
010839_10682_000007 jessica took a good long stare at me then turning sharply round told me to follow her we proceeded up two handsome flights of stairs beautifully carpeted
010839_10682_000008 the servant asked if i should like to see any of the young ladies and i answered in a manner which convinced her how i recoiled from the detestable proposal she smiled as i thought significantly as much as to say you will talk differently in a very short time
010839_10682_000009 when he awoke in the morning he would find himself in bed with one of the delightful girls presently one of the bullies would rush into the room declare that the gentleman had debauched his cousin and threaten an exposure
010839_10682_000010 knows not how fearfully both are compromised both endangered when he so far forgets himself as to set foot in a house of infamy he may imagine that his secret never can transpire that neither his family nor friends can by any possible means ever discover that he has thus erred
010839_10682_000011 at length the captain and adeline returned and we parted with our lovers promising to meet them again in a fortnight the two weeks passed away we met again and on this occasion the invitation to cholmondeley's house was renewed insisted upon and alas accepted
010839_10682_000012 on the second floor the doors of several bedrooms stood open and i could not help admiring the comfort nay even the luxury which their interior revealed to the hasty glance that i threw into them these are the young ladies' rooms said jessica abruptly yours is higher up
010839_10682_000013 her third or fourth glass i exclaimed yes to be sure returned miss enfield what i thought every one knew that she drinks like a fish although she does do it on the sly her husband was a dreadful drunkard
010839_10682_000014 he insisted that i should pass a few weeks longer with his family until he could obtain for me a situation as governess i wrote to the lawyer of my native village and by return of post he forwarded me an order on a london banker for thirty-seven pounds the poor proceeds of the sale of the furniture in the parsonage house
010839_10682_000015 surely you cannot be in your senses my lord i exclaimed to talk of so serious a matter in such a flippant style come let us understand each other lydia he said i did not come to such a house as this to receive a lesson in morals
010839_10682_000016 with these words the honourable adeline enfield sailed out of the room leaving me lost in astonishment absolutely bewildered at her behavior then i felt for the first time the bitter ingratitude of the world and i wept oh i wept abundantly
010839_10682_000017 call me adeline in future answered miss enfield for now you and i are sworn friends yes the whole matter was pre-arranged so far as my meeting with cholmondeley was concerned and as i told him in my last note that you would accompany me he was too gallant not to engage a friend to take charge of you while he and i were conversing together
010994_10863_000000 but of course in all his practice he was never quite certain about the law of his cases this deficiency was made up by dash and brilliancy and he got along swimmingly
010994_10863_000001 and he was given up by the indians i noticed one thing however no more indians were allowed inside the lines with their guns in their hands
010994_10863_000002 he took a leading part in politics was made register of deeds of his county went to the legislature and was nominated for lieutenant governor of the state after its admission into the union
010994_10863_000003 the shock nearly prostrated the soldier but he succeeded in reaching camp the major immediately demanded the surrender of the guilty party
010994_10863_000004 every one of whom had a gun in his hands i had warned the major frequently not to allow an indian to come into council with a gun but he deemed it better not to show any timidity and they were not prohibited
010994_10863_000005 his name will be at once recognized by all the old settlers he was a scotchman and had been in business in baltimore financial difficulties had driven him to the west to begin life anew and grow up with the country
010994_10863_000006 the council on this occasion was held about four hundred yards from the battery camp and on lower ground but with no obstruction between them
010994_10863_000007 and everyone thinking that a general massacre of the whites had begun they scattered in all directions instantly the present prisoner ran for the crowd and an indian can sprint like a deer
010994_10863_000008 i said tom what is it all about i must know what kind of a suit it is before i can supply the latin appropriately
010994_10863_000009 and especially as i am not very much up in latin myself he said the suit was on an insurance policy that he was defending on the ground of misinterpretations
010994_10863_000010 and just at this moment the prisoner in the guardhouse was to make a run in the direction of the council keeping exactly between the guard and the whites in the council ring believing that the soldiers would not fire for the fear of killing their own people
010994_10863_000011 when the time arrived every indian in the ring jumped to his feet and fired in the air creating a tremendous fusilade and as had been expected the most frightful panic followed
010994_10863_000012 is the biggest suit we have ever had in the valley and i think it ought to have some latin in it and i want you to furnish me with that ingredient
010994_10863_000013 contrary to expectations every one of the ten guards opened fire on him and seven of them hit him but curiously not one of the wounds
010994_10863_000014 made by the insured on the making of the policy and he must have some latin to illustrate and strengthen his point
010994_10863_000015 the scheme of the savages was to spring to their feet on a concerted signal and begin firing their guns all around the council circle so as to create a great excitement and bring everyone to his feet
010994_10863_000016 when the prisoner was brought into camp a guard tent was established and he was confined in it with ten men to stand guard over him
010994_10863_000017 he was a very well read and companionable man and exceedingly bright by nature and at once became very popular with the people
010994_10863_000018 and he continued to work wonders thenceforth after the return of the battery i was informed by my close friends among the indians that they had sat on the hills overlooking the camp and concocted
010994_10863_000019 which i translated to mean i did not enter into this contract he was delighted and said there ought to be no doubt of success with the aid of this formidable weapon and made me promise to ride down with him to hear him get it off
010994_10863_000020 so the next day we started and in crossing the le sueur prairie cowan was hailed by a man who said he was under arrest for having kicked a man out of his house for insulting his family and he wanted tom to defend him
010994_10863_000021 stopped his progress and he got away but the bullets went over and among the whites one ricocheting through the coat of major cullen
010994_10863_000022 the prisoner never was caught but i heard a great deal about him afterwards his exploit of stabbing the soldier and his almost miraculous escape made him one of the most celebrated medicine men of his band
010994_10863_000023 we hitched the team and i spread myself comfortably on a pile of shavings to witness the legal encounter and complaining party proved his case cowan put his client on the witness stand and showed the provocation
010994_10863_000024 at his office in the capitol and after completing it i was about to retire when the general said to me judge you don't seem to remember me i replied general did i ever have the pleasure of your acquaintance
010994_10863_000025 and when it appeared that the act was justified there could be no crime then casting a quizzical glance at me he struck a tragic attitude and thundered out
010994_10863_000026 all kinds of schemes to take it the principal one of which was to fill bladders with water and pour them over the touch holes of the guns and as they supposed render them useless and then open fire on the men
010994_10863_000027 one pleasing circumstance resulted from the presence of this battery in the indian country about thirty years after the occurrences i've been narrating i had occasion to transact some business with the adjutant general of our state
010994_10863_000028 when we arrived at le sueur we found that the case could not be heard that day and starting homeward about four o'clock we reached the carpenter shop there we found the jury awaiting us
010994_10863_000029 fortunately nothing of this kind was tried but i was convinced that no one can be too cautious when in the country of a savage enemy a good lesson can be learned from this narrative by the people now occupying the country of the filipinos
010994_10863_000030 the justice's court was about a mile from the road in a carpenter shop the proprietor of which was the justice tom told him to demand a jury and he would stop on his way back and help him out
010994_10863_000031 then he addressed the jury his defense was want of criminal intent he dwelt eloquently on the point that the gist of the offense was the intent with which the act was committed
010994_10863_000032 not exactly he said but don't you remember the time when you had the old sherman battery in the field with its tall first sergeant
010994_10863_000033 a flask from your pocket or holster you asked me to take a drink that is a long time ago but i remember it as the best drink i ever had and i always associate you pleasantly with it
010994_10863_000034 i said i recall the event quite clearly but not the sergeant he said one day after a long hot march i was laying out the camp and you were sitting on your horse observing the operation when you noticed me and called me to you and pulling
010994_10863_000035 with what effect tom utilized his latin in the insurance suit i have forgotten or was never advised
010994_10863_000036 gentlemen of the jury it is indelibly recorded in all the works of roman jurisprudence non haec in federe veni which means there can be no crime without criminal intent
010994_10863_000037 the effect was electrical the jury acquitted the prisoner and we drove home fully convinced that the law was not an exact science
010994_10863_000038 the moral of the story is that when you are in a country of hostile savages never accept any confidences or take any chances and when you have more drinks than you can conveniently absorb divide with your neighbor
010994_10863_000039 indian strategy in the summer of eighteen fifty-six i had the celebrated battery commanded by major t w sherman of the united states army
010994_10863_000040 the tall sergeant had matured into most dignified and charming gentleman with whom i have ever since enjoyed the most agreeable relations
010994_10863_000041 the officers of the battery were major sherman first lieutenant ayer and second lieutenant du barry its force of men was about sixty including noncommissioned officers i think it had four guns
010994_10863_000042 these men were each armed with the minie rifle which was first introduced into the army and which was quite an effective weapon
010994_10863_000043 but of this i'm not certain one day after skirmishing about over considerable country we made a camp on the yellow medicine river near a fine spring and everything seemed comfortable
010994_10863_000044 his first venture was in the fur trade but not knowing anything about it his success was not brilliant i remember that he once paid an immense price for a very large black bearskin thinking he had struck a bonanza
010994_10863_000045 better known as the buena vista battery from the good work it did in the mexican war on duty in the indian country on account of a great excitement which prevailed among the indians
010994_10863_000046 so i said no more but it was just such misplaced confidence that afterwards cost general canby his life among the modocs when he was shot down by captain jack
010994_10863_000047 the formation of the camp was a square with the guns and tents inside and a sort of a picket line on all sides about a hundred yards from the center on which the sentinels marched day and night
010994_10863_000048 things went on quietly until one day a young soldier went down to the spring with his bucket and dipper for water and an indian who desired to make a name for himself among the among his fellows
010994_10863_000049 i tented with the major and seeing that the indians were allowed to come inside of the picket lines with their guns in their hands i took the liberty of saying to him that i did not consider such a policy safe because the indians could
010994_10863_000050 at a concerted signal each pick out his man and shoot him down and then where would the battery be but the major's answer was oh we must not show any timidity
010994_10863_000051 while all this was going on we were holding pow pows every day with the indians endeavoring to straighten out and clear up all the vexed questions between us
010994_10863_000052 the manner of holding a council was to select a place on the prairie plant an american flag in the center and all hands squat down in a circle around it
010994_10863_000053 he kept it on exhibition until one day john s prince who was an experienced fur buyer dropped in and after listening to cowan's eulogy on the on his bear skin
010994_10863_000054 intending of course to kill him but as luck would have it the knife struck his collarbone and doubled up so the indian could not withdraw it
010994_10863_000055 wiley remarked he bear not worth a damn which decision induced tom to abandon the fur trade there being no lawyer but one at traverse des sioux
010994_10863_000056 followed him stealthily and when he was in a stooping posture filling his bucket came up behind him and plunged a long knife into his neck
010994_10863_000057 so one day they suggested a certain place for the holding of the council giving some plausible reason for the change of location and when the time arrived everybody assembled and the ring was formed
010994_10863_000058 principally devoted to the statutes i admitted him to the bar and he fearlessly announced himself as an attorney and counselor at law
010994_10863_000059 in this venture he was phenomenally successful he was a fine speaker made an excellent argument on facts and soon stood high in the profession
010994_10863_000060 he accordingly proposed that he should study with me which idea i strongly encouraged and after about six weeks of diligent reading
010994_10863_000061 it very much resembles turkish diplomacy but the weather was pleasant and everybody was patient the indians however were concocting plans all this time to effect the escape of the prisoner in the guardhouse
010994_10863_000062 those present consisted of all the traders superintendent cullen major sherman lieutenant ayer in fact all the white men at agency about one hundred indians
010994_10863_000063 then the speechifying would commence and last for hours without any satisfactory results anyone who has had much experience in indian councils is aware of the hopelessness of arriving at a termination of the discussion
010994_10863_000064 and i having been elected to the supreme bench mr cowan decided to study law and open an office for the practice of that profession
010994_13154_000000 if you will kindly cease this unmannerly and intempestive laughter said the celestial with an excellent imitation of his head master's manner of speech i will give you a few thoughts that have occurred to me on this subject
010994_13154_000001 it was no reason for a sandy-haired pudding-faced pig of the prairies like duncan to call attention to it the chastisement was administered smiling and it left duncan with a strong desire to propitiate the celestial
010994_13154_000002 to me to contain a good deal of impertinence it was not intended to be shown to the masters sir quite so said mr liggers quite so i see the justice of that plea
010994_13154_000003 that had eat one of these green things with the red stripe around them and tell me if they're any good the school magazine is rot it contains reports of concerts telling us how the swanlike voice of smithson was heard to great advantage
010994_13154_000004 now smithson was above all things a slow conscientious and painstaking boy he had been told by the celestial his lord and master to black out the offending paragraph and he had only got a g pen to do it with
010994_13154_000005 the discussion of the magazine continued and various duties were assigned banks for instance was required to provide accurate information
010994_13154_000006 we do not expect you always to speak of us with the same respect with which you speak to us but if you speak disrespectfully of us and allow us to overhear you have to take the consequences
010994_13154_000007 as to all the head master's dinner parties including a list of the guests and exact transcript of the menu douglas was to furnish short biographies of any visitors at the schoolhouse that's all very funny said douglas but how am i to get em
010994_13154_000008 that is your lookout said the celestial you got a tongue in your head if you do not see what you want kindly ask for it in that way we shall rise on stepping-stones of our dead selves to higher things
010994_13154_000009 if you produce a magazine and leave it about where we can find it you must take the consequences of that also strictly speaking said langsdyke it shouldn't have been left about we made a rule that it was to be kept in the lockers when it wasn't being read
010994_13154_000010 well well said mr liggers i can settle afterwards what we will do about your precious magazine what i wanted to speak about particularly was one paragraph in it dealing with the wife of one of the masters you let that paragraph go in
010994_13154_000011 as the josser remarked who did the stuff that the sixth had to cork into elegiacs this morning how did you know asked smithson because fathead i heard the stuff being given out to them and that don't explain how you remembered it said smithson who never remembered anything
010994_13154_000012 yes sir said the celestial well i don't expect much from you but i thought you were more of a man than that who wrote it the celestial hesitated well practically i did he said
010994_13154_000013 well said the celestial i cannot stop to explain it to you because i'm just about to give my celebrated imitation of a lion-hearted english schoolboy cutting cricket on a beastly hot saturday afternoon and getting a surreptitious swim in the river rathe
010994_13154_000014 i'll come too said smithson you will bet your last boots you won't as socrates very pointedly observes where one can slink out all right two may be missed
010994_13154_000015 now you can go and send up that number of your magazine to me at once langsdyke was extremely angry as he came down the stone stairs
010994_13154_000016 and has not yet been followed by the bulk of the leading london magazines the celestial lay at full length on his back on a table in the day room
010994_13154_000017 if it were any use i would ask you to try to behave more like a gentleman in the future but i do not think it is boys of the type that would do that kind of thing would be better out of the place altogether and that is how i expect you will end langsdyke
010994_13154_000018 two in due course of time langsdyke's home truths made a successful appeal to its limited public the method of production was original
010994_13154_000019 there is no practically about it you did or you didn't then i did said the celestial then you will learn for me by heart the first chorus in the agamemnon
010994_13154_000020 the magazine consisted almost entirely of paragraphs the following are some of the more elegant extracts from the first number anyone who is reading this magazine is requested to keep it in his locker when he isn't
010994_13154_000021 having in his hand the rough pencil notes of news given to him by his accomplished staff smithson knelt on the floor with a penny exercise book and his inkpot on a form beside him and took down the paragraphs that his editor dictated to him
010994_13154_000022 he could not of course have given smithson away or duncan more especially as he had already punished duncan himself still he did not much like being spoken to in that way and it was only the fear that on some further investigation the real culprit
010994_13154_000023 i explained that i drew the line at emperors and in a fit of uncontrollable passion the bounder has given me the first chorus to learn by heart smithson eschylus forward show agamemnons
010994_13154_000024 three after dinner that night mr liggers unbosomed himself to mr dunham another master in the schoolhouse you have sometimes accused me said mr liggers of being a bit too rough with that chap langsdyke
011093_11114_000000 in which we examine the relations existing between the pressure the volume and the temperature of bodies and in which are comprised under the term fluid gases as well as liquids
011093_11114_000001 but liquid air is costly and if one were content to evaporate it for the purpose of collecting a part of oxygen in the residuum the process would have a very poor result from the commercial point of view
011093_11114_000002 the skill shown by m bouasse authorises us to hope that thanks to his researches a strong light will some day illumine these unknown corners a particularly interesting chapter on elasticity is that relating to the study of crystals
011093_11114_000003 various verifications of this formula have been effected and it has in particular been the object of very important remarks by monsieur daniel berthelot it is interesting to note that thermodynamics seems powerless to determine this equation
011093_11114_000004 the knowledge of this torsion the rigidity can be deduced in the case of a solution containing half a percent of gelatin it is found that this rigidity enormous compared with that of water is still however one trillion eight hundred and forty billion times less than that of steel
011093_11114_000005 and the carlsruhe professor had to devise an ingenious apparatus which enabled him to bring the preparation at the required temperature on to the very plate of the microscope
011093_11114_000006 the philosophical importance and the practical interest of the discovery nevertheless remain considerable as was to be expected numbers of experimenters have sought whether these consequences are duly verified in reality
011093_11114_000007 we see by this example that admirable as is the progress accomplished in certain regions of physics there still exist many over neglected regions which remain in painful darkness
011093_11114_000008 m amagat particularly has made use for this purpose of a most original and simple method he remarks that in all its generality the law may be translated thus
011093_11114_000009 one which is entirely arbitrary namely that when the state of the system is given external action capable of maintaining it in that state are determined without ambiguity
011093_11114_000010 when flowers become phosphorescent the same is the case with certain simple bodies such as oxygen which is transformed into ozone and emits a white light in the process
011093_11114_000011 the mechanical properties of bodies also undergo important modifications in general their cohesion is greatly increased and the dilation produced by slight changes of temperature is considerable
011093_11114_000012 sir james dewar has effected careful measurements of the dilation of certain bodies at low temperatures for example of ice changes in colour occur and vermilion and iodide of mercury pass into pale orange phosphorescence becomes more intense and most bodies of complex structure milk eggs feathers
011093_11114_000013 unfortunately all those liquids are turbid and it may be objected that they are not homogeneous this want of homogeneity according to monsieur quincke be due to the existence of particles suspended in a liquid in contact with another miscible with it
011093_11114_000014 these researches deserve attention by their interest and the generality of the results to which they have led they also give a remarkable example of the happy effects which may be obtained by the combined employment of the various methods of investigation used in exploring the domain of nature
011093_11114_000015 it is thus made evident these bodies act on polarized light in the manner of a crystal those that we show layman terms semi-liquid still present traces of polyhedric delimitation but with the peaks and angles rounded by surface tension while the others tend to a strictly spherical form
011093_11114_000016 for it does not trouble itself about the nature of the bodies obedient to its laws but on the other hand it intervenes to determine the properties of coexisting phases if we examine the conditions of equilibrium of a mixture which is not subjected to external forces it will be demonstrated that the distribution must come back to a juxtaposition of homogeneous phases
011093_11114_000017 mostly scholars working in the physical laboratory of leyden under the guidance of the director mr kamerlingh onnes have endeavoured to verify the anticipations of the theory
011093_11114_000018 i am unable to enter here into the detail of the questions connected with the theory of gibbs which have been the object of numerous theoretical studies and also of a series ever more and more abundant of experimental researches m duhem in particular has published on the subject memoirs of the highest importance and a great number of experimenters
011093_11114_000019 in a given volume matter ought so to arrange itself that the total sum of free energy has a minimum value thus in order to elucidate all questions relating to the number and qualities of the phases into which the substance divides itself we are led to regard the geometrical surface which for a given temperature represents the free energy
011093_11114_000020 the optical examination of the first-named bodies is very difficult because appearances may be produced which are due to the phenomena of refraction and imitate those of polarization for the other kind which are often as mobile as water the fact that they polarize light is absolutely unquestionable
011093_11114_000021 has furnished the most valuable information on all the laws of compressibility and dilatation the classical work of andrews was not very wide andrews did not go much beyond pressures close to the normal and ordinary temperatures of late years several very interesting and peculiar cases have been examined by mm cailletet
011093_11114_000022 observed various experimenters have endeavoured of recent years to elucidate this question it cannot be considered absolutely settled but these very curious experiments pursued with great patience and remarkable ingenuity allow us to think that there really exist certain intermediary forms
011093_11114_000023 by equations termed conditions of equilibrium of the system if we reject this hypothesis it will then be allowable to introduce into thermodynamics laws previously excluded and it will be possible to construct as monsieur duhem has done a much more comprehensive theory
011093_11114_000024 in the same way magnetic properties have been studied a very interesting result is that found in oxygen the magnetic susceptibility of this body increases at the moment of liquefaction nevertheless this increase which is enormous
011093_11114_000025 we are a little less advanced as regards abnormal substances that is to say those composed of molecules partly simple and partly complex and either dissociated or associated
011093_11114_000026 in this theory the representative system is considered dependent on the temperature of one of several other variables such as for example a chemical variable a similar idea has been developed in a very fine set of memoirs on nickel steel by monsieur charles edouard guillaume
011093_11114_000027 these modifications which may be called phenomena of the hysteresis of dilation may be followed in very appreciable fashions by means of a glass thermometer the general results are quite in accord with the previsions of m duhem m lenoble in researches on the traction of metallic wires and m chevalier in experiments
011093_11114_000028 thermodynamics has in fact allowed us to obtain numerical relations between the various coefficients and atomic hypotheses have led to the establishment of one capital relation the characteristic equation of fluids while on the other hand experiment in which the progress made in the art of measurement has been utilized
011093_11114_000029 chemical affinity is almost put an end to phosphorus and potassium remain inert in liquid oxygen it should however be noted and this remark has doubtless some interest for the theories of photographic action that photographic substances remain even at the temperature of liquid hydrogen
011093_11114_000030 the three critical constants may be determined as mr s young and m amagat have shown by a direct method based on the consideration of the saturated states
011093_11114_000031 between crystals and liquids in which bodies still retain a peculiar structure and consequently act on light nevertheless possess considerable plasticity let us note that the question of the continuity of the liquid and solid state
011093_11114_000032 these cases must naturally be governed by very complex laws recent researches by messrs van der waals alexeif rothmund kunen lehfeld etc throw however some light on the question
011093_11114_000033 in the course of studies conducted with rare success and remarkable ingenuity may render great services because it is possible to regulate so to speak at will their mechanical or magnetic properties
011093_11114_000034 he has managed to measure with precision pressures amounting to three thousand atmospheres and also the very small volumes then occupied by the fluid mass under consideration this last measurement which necessitates numerous corrections is the most delicate part of the operation
011093_11114_000035 nickel steels present the most curious properties and i have already pointed out the paramount importance of one of them hardly capable of perceptible dilation for its application to metrology and chronometry others also discovered by m guillaume
011093_11114_000036 but it seems hardly possible to consider the case of crystal in which molecular movements must be essentially regular as a natural sequence to the case of the liquid which we are on the contrary in the presence of an extremely disordered state of movement
011093_11114_000037 daily more numerous applications of the laws of corresponding states have rendered highly important the determination of the critical constants which permit these states to be defined in the case of homogeneous bodies the critical elements have a simple clear and precise sense
011093_11114_000038 critical temperature is that of the single isothermal line which presents a point of inflexion at a horizontal tangent the critical pressure and the critical volume are the two coordinates of this point of inflexion
011093_11114_000039 these researches have dealt with a certain number of different bodies those relating to carbonic acid and ethylene take in the critical point others on hydrogen and nitrogen for instance are very extended
011093_11114_000040 the eminent physicist who by his earlier researches has greatly contributed to the light thrown on the analogous question of the displacement of the zero in thermometers concludes from fresh researches that the residual phenomena are due to chemical variations
011093_11114_000041 and that the return to the primary chemical state causes the variation to disappear he applies his idea not only to the phenomena represented by irreversible steels but also to very different facts for example to phosphorescence certain particularities of which may be interpreted in an analogous manner
011093_11114_000042 but in very different conditions as regards their critical points from the experimental point of view m amagat has been able with extreme skill to conquer the most serious difficulties
011093_11114_000043 his researches have in fact proved that the pressure of air congealed by liquid hydrogen cannot exceed the millionth of an atmosphere we have then in this process an original and rapid means of creating an excellent vacuum in apparatus of very different kind a means which in certain cases may be particularly convenient
011093_11114_000044 because they have not yet completely lost their peculiar structure yet the transition is not necessarily established in a continuous fashion when we are dealing with the passage of one the same determinate substance from the liquid to the solid form we conceive that this change may take place by insensible degrees in the case of an amorphous body
011093_11114_000045 professor van der waals arrived at this relation by relying upon considerations derived from the kinetic theory of gases if we keep to the simple idea at the bottom of this theory
011093_11114_000046 others again such as the study of the compressibility of water have a special interest on account of the peculiar properties of this substance mamagat by a very concise discussion of the experiments has also been able to definitely establish the laws of compressibility and dilatation of fluids under constant pressure
011093_11114_000047 an important conclusion has been drawn from these experiments which affects cosmogonical theories since the cold of space could not kill the germs of life it is in no way absurd to suppose that under proper conditions a germ may be transmitted from one planet to another
011093_11114_000048 if the isothermal diagrams of two substances be drawn to the same scale taking as unit of volume and of pressure the values of the critical constants the two diagrams should coincide that is to say their superposition should present the aspect of one diagram appertaining to a single substance
011093_11114_000049 but the most famous the one which first appeared to contain in a satisfactory manner all the facts which experiments brought to light and led to the production of many others was the celebrated equation of van der waals
011093_11114_000050 this figure exact within a few billions proves that the rigidity is very slight but exists and that suffices a characteristic distinction to be found on this property
011093_11114_000051 this the phenomenon of retrograde condensation we may say that the properties of the critical point of a homogeneous substance are in a way divided when it is a question of a binary mixture between the two points mentioned
011093_11114_000052 among the discoveries made with the new processes the one which most strikingly interests public attention is that of new gases in the atmosphere we know how sir william ramsay and dr travers first observed by means of the spectroscope characteristic of the companions of argon in the least volatile part of the atmosphere
011093_11114_000053 phosphorescent organisms cease it is true to shine at the temperature of liquid air but this fact is simply due to the oxidations and other chemical reactions which keep up the phosphorescence being then suspended for phosphorescent activity reappears as so soon as the temperature is again sufficiently raised
011093_11114_000054 all along the curve of transformation the two states may exist in equilibrium but we may assert that it is impossible to realize a continuous series of intermediaries between these two states there will always be a more or less marked discontinuity in some of the properties
011093_11114_000055 and to determine the value of the various coefficients as well as their variations it ought to be possible to condense all these results into a single formula representing the volume the temperature and the pressure rankin and subsequently recknagel and then hirn formerly proposed formulas of that kind
011093_11114_000056 and by the measurement of the resistivities of the densities and the differences of potential or contact the most valuable indications as to their constitution are obtained
011093_11114_000057 have given manifold examples of the fertility of these methods the question moreover has had a new light thrown upon it by the application of the principles of thermodynamics and of the phase rule
011093_11114_000058 as early as eighteen ninety two mister parkinson thought of improving the output by recovering the cold produced by liquid air during its evaporation but an incorrect idea which seems to have resulted from certain experiments of dewar the idea that the phenomenon
011093_11114_000059 results perhaps more precise may also be obtained if one keeps to two constants or even to a single one temperature for example by employing various special methods many others monsieur callatay  and colardeau monsieur young monsieur
011093_11114_000060 there is then a solution of continuity of the various properties of the substance and the two phases may co-exist we might presume also by analogy with what happens with liquids and gases that if we followed the curve of transformation of the crystalline into the liquid phase
011093_11114_000061 this space is comprised between two extreme temperatures the lower corresponding to what is called the folding point the higher to that which we call the point of contact of the mixture between these two temperatures an isothermal compression yields a quantity of liquid which increases then reaches a maximum diminishes and disappears
011093_11114_000062 monsieur tamman has demonstrated that amorphous solids may very well in fact be regarded as superposed liquids endowed with very great viscosity but it is no longer the same thing when the solid is once in the crystallized state
011093_11114_000063 sir james dewar on the one hand and sir william ramsay on the other subsequently separated in addition to argon and helium crypton xenon and neon the process employed consists essentially in first solidifying the least volatile part of the air and then causing it to evaporate with extreme slowness
011093_11114_000064 the study of alloys in general is moreover one of those in which the introduction of the methods of physics has produced the greatest effects by the microscopic examination of a polished surface or of one indented by a reagent by the determination of the electromotive force of elements of which an alloy forms one of the poles
011093_11114_000065 krypton neon which have density four times greater than oxygen may on the contrary have partly disappeared by solution at the bottom of the sea where it is not absurd to suppose that considerable quantities would be found liquefied at great depths
011093_11114_000066 the course of his researches monsieur tamman has been led to certain very important observations and has met with fresh allotropic modifications in nearly all substances which singularly complicate the question
011093_11114_000067 even if they present themselves in different degrees that by a continuous series of intermediary bodies the two classes might yet be connected if on the other hand we discover that there exists in these two classes some quality of a different nature
011093_11114_000068 all these facts have been admirably set forth and systematically coordinated by m mathias who by his own researches moreover has made contributions of the highest value to the study of questions regarding the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states
011093_11114_000069 a tube with electrodes enables the spectrum of gas in process of distillation to be observed in this manner the spectra of the gases may be seen following one another in the inverse order of their volatility
011093_11114_000070 the further knowledge of critical elements has allowed the laws of corresponding states to be more closely examined in the case of homogeneous substances it has shown that as i have already said bodies must be arranged in groups and this fact clearly proves that the properties of a given fluid are not determined by its critical constants alone
011093_11114_000071 and the facility in the other when we wish to change their forms temporarily or permanently by the action of mechanical force this distinction only corresponds however in reality to a difference in the value of certain coefficients it is impossible to discover by this means any absolute characteristic which establishes a separation between the two classes
011093_11114_000072 their composition may thus be very complex but gibbs' rule gives us at once important information on the point since it indicates that there cannot exist in general more than two distinct solutions in an alloy of two metals
011093_11114_000073 we at once demonstrate that the gas ought to obey the laws of mariotte and of gay-lussac so that the characteristic equation would be obtained by the statement that the product of the number which is the measure of the volume by that which is the measure of the pressure is equal to a constant coefficient multiplied by the degree of the absolute temperature
011093_11114_000074 everything leads to the belief that they show the existence on the earth of an earlier state of things now vanished it may be supposed for instance that helium and neon of which the molecular mass is very slight were formerly more abundant on our planet but an epoch when the temperature of the globe was higher
011093_11114_000075 no notice is taken of the fact that at the moment of the shock their centres of gravity are still separated by a distance equal to twice the radius of the molecule
011093_11114_000076 solid alloys may be classed like liquid ones two metals or more dissolve one into the other and form a solid solution quite analogous to the liquid solution but the study of these solid solutions is rendered singularly difficult by the fact that the equilibrium so rapidly reached in the case of liquids in this case takes days
011093_11114_000077 the very speed of their molecules may have reached a considerable value exceeding for instance eleven kilometres per second which suffices to explain why they should have left our atmosphere
011093_11114_000078 we might think that a similar continuity ought to be there met with that the universal character of the properties of matter forbade all real discontinuity between two different states and that in truth the solid was a prolongation of the liquid state
011093_11114_000079 when the compressed gaseous mass occupies a more and more restricted volume on the other hand we assimilate the molecules as a first approximation to material points without dimensions in the evaluation of the path traversed by each molecule
011093_11114_000080 neither the equation of van der waals nor the more complicated formulas which have been proposed by various authors are in perfect conformity with reality we may think that researches of this kind will only be successful if attention is concentrated not only on the phenomena of compressibility and dilation but also on the calorimetric properties of bodies
011093_11114_000081 section four the deformations of solids if the mechanical properties of the bodies intermediate between solids and liquids have only lately been the object of systematic studies
011093_11114_000082 this is necessary to add to them some other specific parameters m mathias and m d berthelot have indicated some which seem to play a considerable part it results also from this that the characteristic equation of a fluid cannot yet be considered perfectly known
011093_11114_000083 to get at this we neglect two important factors we do not take into account in fact the attraction which the molecules must exercise on each other now this attraction which is never absolutely non-existent may become considerable when the molecules are drawn closer together that is to say
011093_11114_000084 alloys are generally known in the two states of solid and liquid fused alloys consist of one or several solutions of the component metals and of a certain number of definite combinations
011093_11114_000085 we must necessarily conclude that there is a discontinuity which nothing can remove the distinction established from the point of view of daily custom between solids and liquids proceeds especially from the difficulty that we meet within the one case
011093_11114_000086 all these gases are monoatomic like mercury that is to say they are in the most simple state they possess no internal molecular energy unless it is that which heat is capable of supplying and they even seem to have no chemical energy
011093_11114_000087 calculation has enabled monsieur van der waals by the application of his kinetic theories and monsieur duhem by means of thermodynamics to foresee most of the results which have since been verified by experiment
011093_11114_000088 in the case of water for instance he finds that ordinary ice transforms itself under a given pressure at the temperature of minus eighty degrees celsius into another crystalline variety which is denser than water the statics of solids under high pressure is as yet therefore
011093_11114_000089 to discover whether this supposition is correct it concerns us to compare the properties of liquids and solids if we find that all properties are common to the two states we have the right to believe
011093_11114_000090 liquid faction of air would not be owing to certain peculiarities the exact converse of that of vaporization led to the employment of very imperfect apparatus monsieur claude however by making use of a method which he calls the reversal method
011093_11114_000091 in his famous theory of capillarity reduced the effect of the molecular attraction to a perpendicular pressure exercised on the surface of a liquid this leads him to add to the external pressure that due to the reciprocal attractions of the gaseous particles
011093_11114_000092 the calculation thus pursued leads to our adding to the pressure in the simple equation a term which is designated to the internal pressure and which is the quotient of a constant by the square of the volume
011093_11114_000093 the hypothesis of central forces a mere function of distance and has recognized a potential which depends on the relative orientation of the molecules these considerations also apply to the quasi isotropic bodies which are in fact networks of crystals
011341_11288_000000 nay though of rushes be my bed yet i am rich love said but argued life thrice fond art thou to yield the sovereign gifts of earth the victor sword the laureled brow for visioned things of little worth
011341_11288_000001 love gazed afar with dream-lit eyes and answered nay but wise yet love said life what can atone for all the travail of thy years the yearnings vain the vigils lone
011341_11288_000002 poor love said life that hast nor gold nor lands nor other store i ween thy very shelter from the cold is oft but lowly built and mean
011341_11330_000000 which are not due to appear till april or may of the following year it is wonderful also how long life can be sustained by these creatures in the full-fed larva condition
011341_11330_000001 and only shows itself when the final skin is shed of course some caterpillars spin a cocoon over themselves before they change their skin but then the true chrysalis is found inside the cocoon a curious fact connected with the change from the nymph to the perfect insect
011341_11330_000002 in this respect being quite different from worm casts which are formed of wet mould and the particles of which cling together sometimes causing considerable alarm as to the possible effect on the lawn
011341_11330_000003 many people know the little red bee which for some apparently unaccountable reason suddenly appears in myriads on their lawn or gravel path throwing up little mounds of finely powdered earth
011341_11330_000004 is that this takes place sometimes as early as august in the year preceding their appearance so that the cells dug up in august may contain fully fledged insects
011341_11330_000005 people are often misled into the idea that the caterpillar forms the chrysalis over its former self whereas the chrysalis has been all the time forming inside the caterpillar
011341_11330_000006 had rather shrunk up and had not changed into nymphs these i left in the stems covering them up again and they appeared as perfect insects in the may of the following year
011341_11330_000007 the account given of the nesting habits of the above andrena of our lawns et cetera it's more or less true of nearly all the solitary bees
011341_11330_000008 their methods vary some burrow in the ground some in old wood some in snail shells some in bramble stems or straws or the hollow stems of various plants some in holes or crevices in walls etcetera and their methods of building their cells
011341_11330_000009 some years ago i collected a number of pierced bramble stems in order to breed out some of the small sandwasps which nest in them on opening them in may when the perfect insects are generally ready to appear i found that several of the larvae
011341_11330_000010 vary exceedingly all of these are of great interest and some display an ingenuity which is quite surprising of these special nesting habits
011341_11330_000011 these have hatched out from burrows made by their parents in the previous year the mouths of which have been filled up with earth and therefore are quite invincible till the newly fledged bees
011341_11330_000012 but the female after having undertaken the duties of maternity hibernates for example goes back into a burrow and lives there till the next spring the males dying off before the winter in the spring the female wakes up and does the necessary work for the future brood
011341_11330_000013 some of the most striking will be mentioned later on before leaving these general remarks on the solitary bees the habits of two genera must be specially noticed as they differ in an essential point from those of the others
011341_11330_000014 just as any ordinary spring bee would but there are no attendant males the duties of that sex having been performed in the autumn the larvae contained in these burrows hatch out after midsummer and therefore never spend a winter in the ground
011341_11330_000015 these are known to entomologists under the names of halictus and sphecodes in most species of these the males and females of the new brood are not hatched out until after midsummer and no work is done for the provisioning of new burrows that autumn
011341_11330_000016 in this respect they resemble the social bees and wasps about which more hereafter in the meanwhile a few words must be said about the cuckoos or inquilines which are perhaps the most interesting creatures of all
011341_11330_000017 gnaw their way out they in their turn are now making fresh burrows for their own broods possibly they infested someone else lawn the year before or were only in comparatively small numbers on the lawn
011341_11330_000018 the life history of an ordinary pair of solitary bees is roughly as follows i will take for example one of the spring species of andrena
011341_11330_000019 probably the treatment of the lawn does not suit them moaning and rolling upsetting their arrangements we will now consider these arrangements
011341_11330_000020 each of these she shapes more or less into the form of a cell provisions it with a small mass of pollen mixed with honey for the maintenance of the larva when hatched and lays her egg she then seals up that cell and proceeds to the next
011341_11330_000021 the female bee so soon as she realizes that she's charged with the duty of providing for her future offspring makes a little heap which is so observable this burrow varies in depth from six to twelve inches and has short lateral branches
011341_11330_000022 under notice and so passed unrecognized they may safely be left alone as they never seem to breed many consecutive years in one such locality
011341_11330_000023 and in this way fills up the burrow until pretty near the surface the bee caterpillar when hatched is a white grub-like creature which after devouring the food provided for it become more or less torpid it then makes its final change of skin
011341_11330_000024 after how long a period it's probably uncertain and appears in the nymph stage these states correspond to the chrysalis of a moth or butterfly the creature being shortened up and rather more like the perfect insect compacted into the smallest form possible
011341_11450_000000 then sir gawaine catched his helmet and rushed it off from his head upon this the knight said in a weak voice sir knight i crave mercy of you and yield myself to you
011341_11450_000001 but some time i will show to her that i have in me more courtesy and i am more gentle that she believes me to be as for my sword since she deemeth to be dishonored by that blow i will not use it anymore
011341_11450_000002 so he took the sword out of its sheath and break it across his knee and flung it away now all this hath been told to set forth that which follows for there ye shall learn what great things of nobility sir gawaine could do
011341_11450_000003 he could not contain himself for joy therewith sir gawaine came to him and lifted him up from the ground where he was and kissed him upon the cheek then certain others came and bare the lady away into her chamber
011341_11450_000004 but sir gawaine was very furious with anger because of the unexpected blow which he had received and because of the great agony of the wound wherefore he could not have mercy but lifted up his sword with intent to slay that knight
011341_11450_000005 and there in a little while she recovered from that swoon and was but little the worse for the blow she had received that night sir gawaine and his brother gaheris
011341_11450_000006 abided with the knight and the lady and when the knight learned who sir gawaine was he felt it great honor to have so famous a knight in that place so they feasted together that evening in great amity
011341_11450_000007 for i do not think that either my lady or her sister ever beheld her like before this strange lady brought unto those two ladies a white hart and a white brachet and the hart and the hound she held each by a silver chain
011341_11450_000008 were riding through this forest together discoursing very pleasantly one time there appeared a lady unto them exceedingly beautiful and of very strange appearance
011341_11450_000009 which led me into this adventure to this the lord of the castle whose name was sir ablamor of the marise said i will do so and therewith he spake as follows you must know sir that i have a brother who hath always been very dear to me
011341_11450_000010 after that sir gawaine and his brother gaheris rode a considerable distance until they came by and by through a woodland into an open plain and it was now about the time of sunset
011341_11450_000011 and when i took this my lady unto wife he took her sister as his wife now my brother dwelt in a castle nigh to this and we held commerce together in great amity but it befell upon a day that my lady and my brother's lady
011341_11450_000012 so the knight said that he would do that and thereupon they parted the one party going the one way and the other party going the other way
011341_11450_000013 then the lady of the castle beheld what sir gawaine was intent to do and she brake away from her damsels and ran and flung herself upon the knight so as to shield him with her own body and in that moment sir gawaine was striking
011341_11450_000014 attached to a golden collar that encircled its neck and the white hart she gave unto my lady and the white brachet she gave unto my lady's sister and then she went away leaving them very glad but their gladness did not last for very long
011341_11450_000015 forever since that time there hath been nothing else but discord between my brother and myself and between my lady and her sister for the white hound hath ever sought the white hart for to destroy it wherefore i and my lady have entertained very great offense against my brother and his lady
011341_11450_000016 when it behooved him to do them for haply ye who have read this story may feel as queen guinevere did that sir gawaine was not rightwise courteous as a belted knight should have been in that adventure aforetold
011341_11450_000017 lying beside the road like any carrion and they saw that the hound was pierced through with three arrows wherefore they wist that it had been slain very violently now when sir gawaine beheld that beautiful hound lying dead in that wise he was filled with great sorrow
011341_11450_000018 and gaheris followed after his brother so sir gawaine pursued the white hart into the courtyard of the castle and from thence it could not escape
011341_11450_000019 because of that white hart which it pursued now i make my vow that if i can find that hart i will slay it with mine own hands because it was in that chase that this hound met its death
011341_11450_000020 what a pity it is he cried that this noble hound should be slain in this wise for i think that it was the most beautiful hound that ever i saw in all my life here hath assuredly been great treachery against it for it hath been fully dealt with
011341_11450_000021 have held equal offence against us now this day it chanced i was toward the outskirts of the forest to the east of us when i heard a great outcry in the woodland
011341_11450_000022 so i came upon them at the outskirts of the woodland nigh to where there were a number of pavilions pitched in the shade of a glade of trees in the midst of the meadow
011341_11450_000023 then i was very greatly angered for it seemed to me that they were chasing that white hart out of despite of my lady and myself wherefore i followed after them with all speed
011341_11450_000024 because they did not keep the white brachet at home so it has come to pass that a number of times we have sought to destroy the hound so that my brother and his lady
011341_11450_000025 now as soon as the white hart beheld those two strangers it fled with great speed toward the castle and it ran into the courtyard of the castle and when sir gawaine beheld the stag he gave chase in pursuit of it with great speed
011341_11450_000026 after that they rode forward toward the castle and as they drew nigh lo they beheld that white hart with the golden collar browsing upon the meadows before the castle
011341_11450_000027 and by and by the white hart that belonged to my lady came fleeing through the woodland and the white brachet that belonged to my brother's lady was in pursuit of it and my brother and his lady and two esquires followed rapidly after the hart and the brachet
011341_11450_000028 this is a very strange matter now i beseech thee to tell me of what appearance was the lady who gave the white hart and the white hound unto those two ladies
011341_11450_000029 and there in mine anger i struck my brother a great blow so that i smote him down from his horse and i catched his lady and i threw her across the horn of my saddle
011341_11450_000030 and the lady was extraordinarily graceful and very beautiful of appearance sir gawaine looked upon the lady and he thought he had hardly ever seen so beautiful a dame
011341_11450_000031 wherefore he was more sorry than ever that in his haste he had slain that white hart but when the lady of the castle beheld the white hart that it lay dead upon the stone pavement of the courtyard
011341_11450_000032 then sir gawaine leaped him down from his horse and drew his sword and slew the hart with a single blow of his weapon this he did in great haste but when he had done that and it was too late to mend it he repented him of what he had done very sorely
011341_11450_000033 and i bore her away to this castle and here i have held her out of revenge because they pursued the white hart which belonged to my lady for my lady loved that hart as she loved nothing else in the world excepting myself sir said sir gawaine
011341_11450_000034 now with all this tumult there came out the lord and the lady of the castle and the lord was one very haughty and noble aspect
011341_11450_000035 she smote her hands together and shrieked with such shrillness and strength that it pierced the ears to hear her and she cried out
011341_11450_000036 lady i'm very sorry for what i have done and i would that i could undo it then the lord of the castle said to sir gawaine sir
011341_11450_000037 well quoth sir gawaine since now both the hart and the hound are dead ye can assuredly bear no more enmity toward her and your brother wherefore i do beseech you that you will let her go free and will enter again into a condition of amity and goodwill the one with the other
011341_11450_000038 oh my white heart art thou then dead and wherewith she fell to weeping with great passion and then sir gawaine said
011341_11450_000039 but tell me messire where now is that lady thy wife's sister sir said the knight she's in the castle and is a prisoner of honor
011341_11450_000040 for now she spendeth all of her time in doing such mischief as this by means of her enchantment out of pure despite and indeed i think it would be a very good thing if she were put out of this world so that she could do no more such mischief
011341_11450_000041 and could not stay his blow nevertheless he was able to turn his sword in his hand so that the edge thereof did not smite the lady but the flat of the sword struck her upon the neck a very grievous blow and the blade cut her a little
011341_11450_000042 didst thou slay that stag yea said sir gawaine sir said the lord of the castle thou hast done very ill in this matter and if thou wilt
011341_11450_000043 it seems to me a very strange thing for a belted knight to do to refuse to give mercy unto a fallen enemy and to strike a lady with his sword for i should think that any sword that had drawn blood from a lady
011341_11450_000044 wait a little i will take full vengeance upon thee unto which sir gawaine said i will wait for thee as long as it shall please thee then the lord of the castle went into his chamber
011341_11450_000045 upon this the lord of the castle was more wroth than ever and he ran at sir gawaine and smote him unawares so that he cleave through the epaulier of his armor and cut through the flesh
011341_11450_000046 and the next day sir gawaine and his brother gaheris returned unto this court of the king and he told king arthur and his court all that had befallen hiding nothing from them
011341_11450_000047 and clad himself in his armor and in a little while he came out very fiercely sir said sir gawaine what is thy quarrel with me and the lord of the castle said
011341_11450_000048 now queen guinevere was very much displeased when she heard how sir gawaine show no mercy to that knight and how he had struck the lady with his sword wherefore she said aside to one of those who stood nigh to her
011341_11450_000049 this sir gawaine overheard and he was exceedingly wroth thereat but he concealed his anger at that time only after he had gone away he said to gaheris his brother i believe that the lady hateth me with all her heart
011341_11450_000050 and unto the bone of the shoulder so that sir gawaine was put to a great agony of pain at the stroke then sir gawaine was filled with rage at the pain of the wound wherefore he smote the knight so woeful a blow
011341_11450_000051 in such wise would be dishonored for aye and i cannot think that anyone who would strike a lady in that wise would hold himself guiltless unto his vow of knighthood
011341_11450_000052 that he cut through his helmet and into the bone beneath and thereupon the knight fell down upon his knees because of the fierceness of the blow and he could not rise up again
011341_11450_000053 so that the blood ran over her smooth white neck and over her kerchief and with the violence of the blow the lady fell down and lay upon the ground as though she were dead now when sir gawaine beheld that he thought that he had slain that lady in his haste
011341_11450_000054 sir i will spare thy life for i am very sorry for what i have done in my haste but the knight of the castle was filled with great bitterness because he thought that his lady was dead wherefore he cried out as in despair
011341_11450_000055 and he was all a dread at what he had done wherefore he cried woe is me what have i done alas said gaheris that was a very shameful blow that thou didst strike
011341_11450_000056 and the shame of it is mine also because thou art my brother now i wish i had not come with thee to this place then sir gawaine said to the lord of that castle
011341_11450_000057 but by now the damsels of the lady had come to her where she lay and the chiefest of these cried out to the lord of the castle ha sir thy lady is not dead but only in a swoon from which she will presently recover
011341_11450_000058 i will not now have thy mercy for thou art a knight without mercy and without pity and since thou hast slain my lady who is dearer to me than my life thou mayst slay me also for that is the only service which thou canst now render me
011341_11514_000000 that is an insult to us but the oldest of all the dolls who had seen being kept for show generations of his sort out screams the whole shelf
011341_11514_000001 hearing him groan and stretch the doll makers wife is aware her husband has heard the wretch and crouched by the arm of his chair she murmurs into his ear head upon shoulder lent
011341_11514_000002 although there's not a man can report evil of this place the man and the woman bring hither to our disgrace a noisy and filthy thing
011341_12035_000000 the whole treasure was efficiently and completely secured so completely did they succeed in keeping their own counsel and so successfully did their reputation keep pace with the cautious production of their undivulged treasures
011341_12035_000001 copiously enriched with gold anxious that no imitation of their good fortune should transpire they had taken the precaution to dispatch the female servant on a needless errand and ere her return
011563_11753_000000 and at the same moment three men issued from the recesses of the woods and advanced toward them all of whom held leveled guns in their hands end of chapter five
011563_11753_000001 finally all was quiet the night wind crooned among the trees an owl hooted to its mate but the scouts all slept calmly with not a fear of danger
011563_11753_000002 hear about it they'd be apt to tell you it's an old camping spot how about it men bein' here often with parties replied the older guide promptly seen hundreds of fine trout jerk outen that that pool over there
011563_11753_000003 a sheriff's posse of course everybody did as they were told and when they afterwards exchanged opinions regarding the ridiculous character of the picture they must have made with six boys and two men trying to see who could elevate his hands the highest they must always laugh until the tears rolled down their cheeks
011563_11753_000004 because the feet are the first part of the body to feel cold when during sleep the blood fails to circulate as thoroughly as when one is awake since the heart slackens its functions in order to get rested for the next day's labor
011563_11753_000005 queer how that could a got in this bag ain't it whatever did them yeggmen want carryin hard mud around with em i wonder he drew his hand back evidently with the intention of throwing the article into the blaze when a hand clutched his wrist and the voice of thad a bit husky sounded close to his ear
011563_11753_000006 somehow all of the scouts just took it for granted that these three advancing parties must surely be the men of whom they had been talking the fleeing desperate rascals who had lately robbed a bank and were trying to make the border so that they might cross over into canada from which territory they would be able to make faces at any pursuers
011563_11753_000007 now you just wait and see your dutch uncle show you a stunt worth two of that careful bumpus the water's deep right here called out thad whose back happened to be turned toward the other canoe just then
011563_11753_000008 as he was changing some of the stuff so to give his legs more room when he took the paddle and likewise cold added giraffe who was grinning with anticipation of the fun that was coming
011563_11753_000009 these fellers just came to stop over here and in the incidental place we chose for a camp that what's getting me oh that's easy replied the other with a little laugh we seemed to strike this place by accident but i reckon that if you asked eli or jim
011563_11753_000010 hold on don't you think of tossing that into the fire step hen why are you crazy didn't you ever see such a thing before in your life no wonder allan there was nearly scared to death when he saw what you meant to do because step hen this stick of innocent mud as you called it is really dynamite
011563_11753_000011 and that's just what's what responded the sheriff nodding as he examined the contents of the bag we hope to get them in time because it meant means a cool thousand to us perhaps more because the reward may have been doubled after we hit the woods sometimes we've been hot on the track and then again they'd give us the slip and we'd lose ground
011563_11753_000012 i've often wished we had dogs along but they're hard to find and people somehow don't like to see dogs up here since the law put a ban on deer hounding i'd like to keep just one of them tools to remember my find by if you didn't have any objection suggested step hen anxiously
011563_11753_000013 eyes on the print of his hunting shoe or boot if he wears such instead of moccasins but stop and remember bumpus we had a heavy rain day before yesterday that must have passed over this section as well as where we struck it after that it turned cold
011563_11753_000014 and to think it should be the same sort of one that found these tools ain't that a queer case though carpenter's tools step hen went on indignantly as he held up a second and then other articles which he took from the bag did you ever watch a carpenter at work draft
011563_11753_000015 he wired up to maine you remember only to learn that mr carson who was a great hunter had started into the big game country after moose with a couple of guides and wouldn't be back until late in the winter everything just worked for us seemed like remarked the boy called davy thad suggested that he be sent up to follow this party
011563_11753_000016 that's mine er i meant to say i found the same in the bushes here when i was huntin something i lost and step hen held up a little packet secured in water cloth waterproof cloth which he had evidently since discovered just where he formerly laid it down
011563_11753_000017 and deliver the message and his guardian fell in with the idea right away didn't he thad i think he was only too willing boys because he knew we wanted to get up in maine the worst kind ever since our comrade allan hollister here began to tell us such splendid stories of the fun to be had in the pine woods of his home state
011563_11753_000018 but why do you say that demanded bumpus eagerly what if mr carson did stop here five six or even seven nights ago you might run on his track you know if i did i'd know it replied allan not that i've even set
011563_11753_000019 and smithy had a hard luck to get a touch of the plague that had dropped in on cranford for a visit but didn't the rest of us hit it up though i should say we did as sure as my name's davy jones well the upshot of the whole matter is that one fine day six of us left cranford bound for maine with all our camp stuff along
011563_11753_000020 and the first thing i'm going to do is to find out if there is any track here different from ours if i find that i'll be pretty sure it was made by others who camped here within the last night or two
011563_11753_000021 and did you ever see him use tools like them if you did then believe me that feller ought to a been in the lock-up that's what lock-up repeated giraffe after him and he stared at step hen as though he believed the other might be trying to play some sort of a joke that's right in the lock-up the other scout went on firmly
011563_11753_000022 observed giraffe also getting to his feet for he was more or less interested in any demonstration of woodcraft that applied to boy scout knowledge of course i know that what the footprint of every one of us looks like even to our guides began allan because i've made it my business to keep my eyes around
011563_11753_000023 oh i forgot all about that admitted the other scout looking foolish why of course that same rain would have washed out the footprints of anybody who had camped here as long ago as four or five nights that's right allen
011563_11753_000024 these parties are all right but what i do want to know is how you came by that he pointed as he spoke at the old tool bag that was lying behind step hen and evidently he must have recognized it or else suspected what it contained
011563_11753_000025 but that was only the beginning giraffe there were better things still headed our way sure there were davy as luck would have it just at the same time thad brewster's guardian found that it was mighty necessary he get word to a gentleman by the name of james w carson
011563_11753_000026 rocks he ejaculated scornfully just as if he had never taken the least stock in that far-fetched theory himself what d'ye call that fellers he had thrust in a hand and was now holding something aloft the dancing light from the campfire shone upon the object which seemed to glisten like polished steel
011563_11753_000027 but go on stephen finish the story while you're about it why of course when thad he found he could go that gave him an idea and sure enough the whole of the patrol got the fever bob quail had to give it up because he had too much on hand to leave home just then
011563_11753_000028 we opened the bag and guessed what the tools must have been thrown away by some yeggmen who were making a bolt across country for the canada border remarked thad as the three officers sat down close to the fire to warm their hands
011563_11753_000029 now open her up step hen and let's see the kind of rocks it's got inside giraffe demanded whereupon step hen proceeded to cautiously test the catch of the bag finding that it would give readily he pressed it further and then drew back the jaws of the leather receptacle
011563_11753_000030 immediately giraffe set up a laugh well i declare fellers he remarked some poor old carpenter's gone and lost his kit of tools shows that step hen ain't the only loony wanderin' about in these here pine woods droppin' his things around loose and then forgettin' where he put 'em
011563_11753_000031 who seemed to be looked up to as the leader of the scout patrol which office he really filled sure replied step hen who was stretched out comfortably by a blazing fire but we've got heaps of time for hunting besides
011563_11753_000032 you can keep the whole bunch if you like son answered the sheriff we don't need any such evidence against these birds if only we can ketch 'em they're carrying all the evidence we want in the shape of the entire capital of the bank they looted so slick
011563_11753_000033 you want to go slow my boy about handling things that you never saw before i wouldn't like to say what would have happened to the lot of you once this dropped into that red-hot fire many a fool miner has been blown to atoms because he tried to dry damp dynamite out in an oven
011563_11753_000034 and here we are at last in the country of big game canoes guides tents and everything along we need for a month of good times or more if we want it but don't forget step hen that the one main object of the trip is to find mr james w carson interrupted the boy named thad
011563_11753_000035 and in the lot i saw some tools mighty like these boys wow and again i say wow murmured giraffe thieves tools hey grunted bumpus pushing forward to handle some of the shiny articles himself perhaps now one of these here might be what they call a jimmy and another a centerbit
011563_11753_000036 i always used to read about such things in every story in the papers of a burglary down in the city davy also wanted to examine the things at close range and so they were passed around even the two guides seemed to take a deep interest in the contents of the little old black bag
011563_11753_000037 and let it get too hot before better ask yourself a few questions before you go to trying tricks with strange things will you spend the night with us mr sheriff asked thad thinking they ought to appear hospitable as everyone who goes into the great timber should be
011563_11753_000038 cranford had made a start in getting a troop together and the first patrol of eight had been formed for some time another patrol was promised by spring to be followed by others as the boys became attacked by disease and desire to learn the numerous splendid things that boy scouts find out
011563_11753_000039 step hen turned red in the face as he heard the story told of how he had just been about to throw the unknown substance into the fire when prevented the lengthy sheriff looked reproachfully toward him and remarked mildly
011563_11753_000040 and for several minutes a buzz followed as each voiced his opinion concerning the merits of the tools to accomplish such a job as breaking into a strong box of a bank
011563_11753_000041 there i can see him stoop lower down and i wouldn't be surprised if he'd hit a footprint right away the others all craned their necks in order to see what allan was doing and of course giraffe had them left
011563_11753_000042 but just stop and think remarked step hen presently how far this is from any town where these fellers could use their tools no wonder they hid 'em in the bushes right here the only thing they could expect to break into up here would be the game laws
011563_11753_000043 far in the lurch when it came to this on account of his being gifted by a bountiful nature with such an exceedingly long ostrich like appendage below his head
011563_11753_000044 i suppose they broke open the safe in the usual way with dynamite thad remarked quietly just what they did though how you guessed it i don't see the sheriff replied we found something in the bag that told us that and thad as he spoke stepped over to the tree in the crotch of which he had placed the stick of dynamite
011563_11753_000045 he took a blazing brand from the fire and began to move around the outskirts of the camp beyond the tents and the glow of the fire why does he go so far away asked bumpus because we've been walking around here so much that all chances of making any discovery would be lost replied thad and out there he may stand and show
011563_11753_000046 yes he's sure struck something giraffe declared as though anxious to show what an advantage it was sometimes to be the professor of a neck that was longer than any of the others there he's beckoning to us to come on to come on over fellers
011563_11753_000047 if it didn't exactly wash the footprints out it would make them look faint and a trailer would soon know they were old now let me take a turn around and do the rest of you sit quiet here till i call out that i've found something
011563_11753_000048 poor smithy poor bob exclaimed the one who had called himself davy jones there were six of them in all and it was easy to see from the various parts of the khaki uniforms that were in evidence these lads belonged to a section of the boy scouts organization
011563_11753_000049 and trying out a lot of things we've been learning scouts it was fine for our rich chum bob quail to insist on handing a big lump of coin to add to the funds contributed by our folks that put us on easy street and now here we are as happy as clams at high tide just finished our grub and pitying the fellows left behind
011563_11753_000050 when i was down to new york with my dad last year he had to see the police commissioner about a little business and they were old friends too i went along and sat there in one of the offices nigh an hour to amuse myself i examined the heaps of queer things they had there which i reckoned had been taken from all sorts of crooks that'd been arrested for years
011563_11753_000051 how do you reckon they got here allan by boat or through the woods up direct asked thad as though he had himself been pondering over that question without being able to connect as yet let's take a look along the edge of the river remarked the maine boy
011563_11753_000052 but if you're going on right away said allan perhaps you'd let us make you some hot coffee mr green the sheriff looked keenly at him and then held out a hand seemed like that was some
011563_11753_000053 it's a cinch that's what allan why i'm only a tenderfoot scout but i can understand that much and i'm real glad to know it too we want to take a good look at that shoe print fellers perhaps we might want to know it again sometime step hen as he said this threw himself down on the ground and seemed to be making a mental photograph of the impression
011563_11753_000054 but few people ever knew it because he was called bumpus by young and old alike it was a little after the nooning hour the boys had evidently been paddling part of the morning
011563_11753_000055 then you think they hid em here asked step hen either that or else just tossed them away to get rid of carrying such a heavy package any longer the maine boy went on
011563_11753_000056 such men would never come up here to camp out or to hunt only one thing would be apt to tempt them to dive into the woods like this they expected to be hunted and are on the way to the canada border as fast as they can pack
011563_11753_000057 these boys would have liked nothing better than to have come out here by themselves relying upon their knowledge of woodcraft to carry them through for several of their number were well versed in such things
011563_11753_000058 or the river suggested giraffe with a sly glance toward bumpus who flashed him back a scornful look my opinion is fellows observed allan who thus far had not taken any part in the earnest discussion that these things might never have been lost at all oh
011563_11753_000059 they've led us a lively chase up to now but the longer we're held off the more determined we become to follow them night and day till we bring the lot to bay they've got mighty little grub along and we don't want to let em have any time to hunt then perhaps hunger will help us out
011563_11753_000060 the ignorance of step hen all of them guides as well as scouts stared at the strange object which step hen was holding up looks like a little handbag of leather but it's been used a heap i reckon suggested davy jones
011563_11753_000061 here's a print all right that seems altogether different from any of ours i can show you that the shoe has been patched across the toe and none of ours have such a mark it's a fresh print too and that means the man who made it must have been here since that rainstorm is that clear enough for you boys
011563_11753_000062 exclaimed bumpus as he tried to leap to his feet but owing to his weight this was never an easy thing for him and he did not refuse the helping hand thad stretched out so they joined allan as he stood there holding his torch near the ground what you found asked giraffe as they came up
011563_11753_000063 but thad as he began to see the newcomers better when they drew nearer the fire felt relieved an idea started to flit through his active brain to the effect that after all they might not be the thieves come back for some purpose perhaps to recover possession of the little old black tool bag
011563_11753_000064 besides he rather fancied this maine sheriff and believed that a session in his company alongside the blazing campfire would be both pleasant and profitable as doubtless the officer could relate many things of interest to the scouts but the other shook his head
011563_11753_000065 sorry but when we're as close to the heels of our game as this we must keep on the move it requires considerable hustling to run down such a lively set as those three yeggs and charley barnes he know his business up here in the woods alright
011563_11753_000066 but bumpus was in deadly earnest he gripped the sides of the canoe just as he had seen davy do and then giving a flirt into the air started to extend his dumpy lower limb upward
011563_11753_000067 me two declared jim grinning broadly at finding how smart this boy seemed to be there you are giraffe thad went on to say turning once more to the scout perhaps as someone said only a little while back this leader of the sprinting yeggmen was himself been camping here
011563_11753_000068 somehow the idea seemed to please the rest of the scouts and even jim and eli nodded their heads as though they quite agreed with allan after he had evolved the suggestion which likely enough would have never occurred to them
011563_11753_000069 for there were three long canoes close by with as many men doubtless guides doing something to change the luggage so that it would allow for a more even keel during the voyage upstream
011563_11753_000070 say do you suppose now giraffe asked that these jail birds could have cracked a crib before they took to the woods well just as like as not answered allan though we can't tell that so easy
011563_11753_000071 since some city men are so careless about leaving a campfire burning when breaking up and in consequence whole districts have been burned over by the rising wind scattering the brands along the leaves and pine needles
011563_11753_000072 one canoe carried besides thad and step hen a dark-faced quiet fellow who was really a full blooded penobscot indian and of course named sebattis as nearly all of them seem to be
011563_11753_000073 they must have tried to get away with some loot though and found the officers hot after them so to escape being caught they've taken to the woods but that might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire davy declared if they happened to be greenhorns now it'd be apt to go hard with them up here
011563_11753_000074 if so be they had a canoe we ought to be able to see where it was pulled up on the little beach down there such a mark would would stay a long time unless the water rose and i don't think that happened here not over half a foot anyhow
011563_11753_000075 well we've settled that part of it pretty cleverly i guess thad declared as he smiled at allan it was one of the easiest jobs i've ever tackled declared the other wonder which way they went when they left here bumpus remarked
011563_11753_000076 my father is dead mr green but mother is fairly well replied the boy with a sad tone in his voice we are not living in maine any longer but down in new york state where all these other scouts belong but will you drink that coffee if we make a pot for you
011563_11753_000077 the second was given over to allan and davy jones with a young guide named jim hasty who by the way was about as slow and deliberate as anyone could be and the third boat had for a crew a real maine character eli crookes about as straight as a pine tree giraffe and bumpus
011563_11753_000078 say we'd be fixed then for a lot more of outings wouldn't we fellers allan laughed it was so strange to hear bumpus usually the most peaceable of the entire patrol speak in so fierce a tone
011563_11753_000079 so once more they walked after allan who was soon examining the shore up close to the edge of the water there's a mark you can all see that looks as if a boat had been pulled up but it's old and faint the rain has nearly washed it out do any of you glimpse signs of another scratch that's fresher
011563_11753_000080 allan's purpose of course was to make his chums think they were having a hand in the search then when telling the story afterwards they could say when we had hunted all along the shore
011563_11753_000081 the sheriff saw that allan did not seem inclined to say anything more about his own family and so he allowed the subject to drop but he did look inquiringly at his two husky deputies who gave him affirmative as well as eager nods
011563_11753_000082 who knew more or less about what to do in the woods and what not to do because you see they seemed to get up this far all right what if there was a big reward out for their capture and we managed to crowd the bunch to the wall suggested bumpus enviously
011563_11753_000083 kinder familiar about your make-up he said now i know you allan hollister how's the dad and the little lady you call mother i remember her well and you too as a boy who loved to hunt and fish as well as any lad in all penobscot county
011563_11753_000084 just please yourselves young fellows he remarked my men look a bit peaked because we've been hitting it up at quite a warm pace and i guess now they'd enjoy a hot cup right smart
011563_11753_000085 but those three maine guides were promised the easiest time of their lives since there were so many willing recruits to do the cooking and lend a hand at the paddling
011563_11753_000086 their parents however would not hear of such a thing and the expedition must have been wrecked on the rocks before it really started only that the boys promised to take several guides along and besides allan had informed them that by the new laws up in maine hunters were bound to employ regular licensed guides when going into the woods to render the risk of fires less probable
011563_11753_000087 we didn't find any fresh sign we knew that the yeggs must sure have walked all the way through the woods there was a little hustle as giraffe davy step hen and bumpus all endeavored to earn the right to include themselves in the affair after which they united in declaring that no further signs lay along the little beach
011563_11753_000088 with the winter coming on perhaps no blankets along and only a little grub huh they might even wish they'd let the officers catch em three meals such as they are in jail are better than nothin to eat in the wilderness oh allan went on to say the chances are they had a feller along
011563_11753_000089 i confess i wouldn't object myself seeing that you're so pressing the coffee pot was quickly clapped on the red coals and would soon be sending out a fragrant odor
011938_10805_000000 o mi to fu desist at once from asking me she designedly exclaimed how can i know anything about such matters contrary as they are to what is right
011938_10805_000001 a day went by on the morrow fell in fact the anniversary of the birth of wang tzu tengs spouse and some one was despatched from his residence to come and invite dowager lady chia and madame wang
011938_10805_000002 nothing of any great value answered the taoist matron ma exclusive of offerings of scented candles several catties of scented oil can be added each day to keep the lantern of the great sea alight
011938_10805_000003 i can guarantee that he'll get all right she added for this is simply a sadden and fleetin' accident turning towards dowager lady chia venerable ancestor she observed venerable buddha
011938_10805_000004 there you are again mrs chao replied you're one ever most ready to succor those in distress and to help those in danger and is it likely that you'll quietly look on while someone comes and compasses my death as well as that of my son
011938_10805_000005 then getting the water pot she sped on her way back again but being in low spirits she retired alone into her room and lay herself down one and all however simply maintained that she was out of sorts so they did not pay any heed to her
011938_10805_000006 and while her mouth was full of assent she stretched out her arm and first and foremost laid hold of the hard cash and next clutched the i o u
011938_10805_000007 this great sea lantern is the visible embodiment and buddhistic representation of this divinity so day and night we don't venture to let it go out
011938_10805_000008 for a whole day and a whole night asked dowager lady chia how much oil is needed so that i too should accomplish a good action there is really no limit as to quantity it rests upon the goodwill of the donor ma the taoist matron put in by way of reply
011938_10805_000009 but a brief interval over pao-yu too appeared on the scene after saluting madame wang he also made a few remarks with all decorum and then bidding a servant remove his frontlet divest him of his long gown and pull off his boots he rushed head foremost into his mother's lap
011938_10805_000010 madame wang at once assailed him with questions she asked him how many ladies had been present on that day whether the play had been good or bad and what the banquet had been like
011938_10805_000011 madame wang caressed and patted him but while pao y clung to his mother's neck he spoke to her of one thing and then another my child said madame wang
011938_10805_000012 turning then towards mrs chao she asked for a sheet of paper and taking up a pair of scissors she cut out two human beings and gave them to mrs chao enjoining her to write on the upper part of them the respective ages of the two persons in question
011938_10805_000013 when he explained that he had been scalded she forthwith shook her head and heaved a sigh then while making with her fingers a few passes over pao ys face she went on to mutter incantations for several minutes
011938_10805_000014 take these she said in advance for presents in your temple at the sight of the various articles and of the promissory note the taoist matron became at once unmindful of what is right and what is wrong
011938_10805_000015 looking further for a sheet of blue paper she cut out five blue-faced devils which she bade her place together side by side with the paper men and taking a pin she made them fast
011938_10805_000016 subject to no fixed rule and of course i feel bound to keep the lanterns alight on their behalf dowager lady chia nodded her head and gave way to reflection there's still another thing continued the taoist matron
011938_10805_000017 the consort of the mansion of the prince of nan au had been prompted in her beneficence by a liberal spirit she allows each day forty-eight catties of oil and a catty of wick so that her great sea lamp is only a trifle smaller than a water-jar
011938_10805_000018 and as he gave utterance to this appeal he kept her hand clasped in his ts'ai hsia however drew her hand away and would not let him hold it if you go on in this way she vehemently exclaimed i'll shout out at once
011938_10805_000019 if it be on account of father or mother or seniors any excessive donation would not matter but were you venerable ancestor to bestow too much in your offering for pao y
011938_10805_000020 in my quarters for instance i have several lanterns the gifts of the consorts of princes and the spouses of the very high officials living in various localities
011938_10805_000021 these two were in the act of wrangling when verily chia huan overheard what was going on he had in fact all along hated pao y so when on this occasion he espied him
011938_10805_000022 the spouse of the marquis of chin hsiang comes next with no more than twenty catties a day but these there are several other families some giving ten catties some eight catties some three some five
011938_10805_000023 when i get home she remarked i'll have recourse to some art which will beyond doubt prove efficacious when she however had done speaking she suddenly saw madame wang's waiting-maid make her appearance inside the room
011938_10805_000024 you've again had too much to drink your face is scalding hot and if you still keep on rubbing and scraping it why you'll by and by stir up the fumes of wine
011938_10805_000025 pao yu then began to bandy words with ts'ai hsia but perceiving that ts'ai hsia was reserved and that instead of paying him any attention she kept her eyes fixed upon chia huan pao yu eagerly took her hand my dear girl he said do also heed me a little
011938_10805_000026 don't you yet go and lie down quietly over there for a while chiding him the while she directed a servant to fetch a pillow pao y therefore lay himself down at the back of madame wang and called ts'ai hsia to come and stroke him
011938_10805_000027 they should give several strings of cash to the pages to bestow on charity among the bonzes and taoist priests and the poor and the needy they might meet on the way these directions concluded the taoist matron trudged into the various quarters and paid her respects and then strolled leisurely about
011938_10805_000028 are you pray fearful lest i shouldn't give you any reward ma the taoist matron greeted this remark with a smile you're right enough in what you say she ventured of my being unable to bear the sight of yourself and son receiving insult from a third party
011938_10805_000029 well in that case responded dowager lady chia let us fix upon five catties a day and every month come and receive payment of the whole lump sum
011938_10805_000030 our young master won't i fear be equal to the gift and instead of being benefited his happiness will be snapped if you therefore want to make a liberal gift seven catties will do if a small one then five catties will even be sufficient
011938_10805_000031 up to his larks with ts'ai hsia he could much less than ever stifle feelings of resentment in his heart after some reflection therefore an idea suggested itself to his mind and pretending that it was by a slip of the hand he shoved the candle overflowing with tallow
011938_10805_000032 by a demoniacal art a junior uncle and an elder brother's wife pao y and lady feng come across five devils the gem of spiritual perception meets in a fit of torpor the two perfect men
011938_10805_000033 and with the first ray of light they discovered that pao-yu's face was one mass of tallow madame wang gave way to anger as well as anxiety
011938_10805_000034 into pao yus face ai ya pao yu was heard to exclaim everyone in the whole room was plunged in consternation with precipitate haste the lanterns standing on the floor were moved over
011938_10805_000035 how could you ever be aware of the existence of the portentous passage in that buddhistic classic to the effect that a son of every person who holds the dignity of prince duke or high functionary
011938_10805_000036 at one time she issued directions to the servants to rub and wash pao-yu clean at another she heaped abuse upon chia huan lady feng
011938_10805_000037 madame wang found out however that dowager lady chia would not avail herself of the invitation and neither would she go so mrs hseh went along with the lady feng and the three sisters of the chia family and pao chai and pao y and only returned home late in the evening
011938_10805_000038 time and again i paid no notice whatever to what happened and you and he have become more audacious and have gone from worse to worse
011938_10805_000039 and rinsing her hands and tying a sash around her waist she repaired directly to sweep the apartments who would have thought it pao yu also had his heart set upon her the moment he caught sight of her the previous day
011938_10805_000040 presently she entered mrs chao's apartments after the two ladies had exchanged salutations mrs chao bade a young servant-girl hand her guest a cup of tea
011938_10805_000041 several waiting maids came at once to tell her to go and sweep the floors of the rooms and to bring water to wash the face with hsiao hung did not even wait to arrange her hair or perform her ablutions but turning towards the looking glass she pinned her chevelure up anyhow
011938_10805_000042 but so restlessly did she in consequence of this fright keep on rolling and tossing that she could not close her eyes during the whole night as soon as the light of the next day dawned she got up
011938_10805_000043 hsiao hung the story continues was much unsettled in her mind her thoughts rolled on in one connected string but suddenly she became drowsy and falling asleep she encountered chia yn who tried to carry out his intention to drag her near him
011938_10805_000044 yet dame chao should ever correct and admonish him this single remark suggested the idea to madame wang and she lost no time in sending for mrs chao to come around
011938_10805_000045 you bring up she berated her such a black-hearted offspring like this and don't you after all advise and reprove him
011938_10805_000046 mrs chao had no alternative but to suppress every sense of injury silence all grumblings and go herself and lend a hand to the others in tidying pao-yu
011938_10805_000047 while mrs chao busied herself pasting shoes ma the taoist matron espied piled up on a heap on the stove-couch sundry pieces of silks and satins
011938_10805_000048 if you don't despise what's worthless you're at liberty to select any two pieces and to take them away and have done the taoist matron ma chose with alacrity several pieces and shoved them in her breast
011938_10805_000049 it just happens she consequently remarked that i have no facings for shoes so my lady do give me a few odd cuttings of silk and satin of no matter what colour to make myself a pair of shoes with
011938_10805_000050 jumped onto the stone couch by leaps and bounds but while intent upon removing the stuff from pao y's face she simultaneously ejaculated master tertius are you still such a trickster i'll tell you what you'll never turn to any good account
011938_10805_000051 she twisted herself round and endeavoured to run away but was tripped over by the doorstep this gave her such a start that she woke up then at length she realised that it was only a dream
011938_10805_000052 mrs chao heaved a sigh look she said whether there will still be among them any pieces good for anything but anything that's worth anything doesn't find its way in there
011938_10805_000053 tofu ejaculated mrs chao with a sigh were i a little better off i'd also come often and offer gifts but although my will be boundless my means are insufficient
011938_10805_000054 madame wang was seated in mrs hseh's apartments whither she had just crossed when she received chia huan come back from school and she bade him transcribe incantations out of the chin kang canon and intonate them
011938_10805_000055 at these words mrs chao gave a smile enough enough she cried don't again refer to such contingencies the present is a fair criterion
011938_10805_000056 yet he feared in the first place that if he mentioned her by name and called her over into his service hsi jen and the other girls might feel the pangs of jealousy
011938_10805_000057 it fell a prey to fears also lest when dowager lady chia made any inquiries about them she should find it difficult to give her any satisfactory reply
011938_10805_000058 and so distressed did she get that she gave mrs chao another scolding but while she tried to comfort pao yu she at the same time fetched more powder for counteracting the effects of the virus and applied it to his face
011938_10805_000059 he did not either in the second place have any idea what her disposition was like the consequence was that he felt downcast so much so that when he got up at an early hour he did not even comb his hair or wash but simply remained seated and brooded in a state of abstraction
011938_10805_000060 don't trouble yourself on this score suggested ma the taoist matron by-and-by when mr huan has grown up into a man and obtained some official post or other will there then be any fear of your not being able to afford such offerings as you might like to make
011938_10805_000061 after a while he lowered the window through the gauze frame from which he could distinctly discern what was going on outside he espied several servant girls engaged in sweeping the court
011938_10805_000062 the other day mrs chao went on to inquire i sent a servant over with five hundred cash have you presented any offerings before the god of medicine or not i've offered them long ago for you the taoist matron ma rejoined
011938_10805_000063 but as for your mention of rewards why what's there of yours that i still covet this answer slightly reassured mrs chao's mind
011938_10805_000064 it's rather sore said pao y but it's nothing to speak of tomorrow when my old grandmother asks about it i can simply explain that i scalded myself
011938_10805_000065 all of them were rouged and powdered they had flowers inserted in their hair and were grandly got up but the only one of whom he failed to get a glimpse was the girl he had met the day before
011938_10805_000066 she then perceived that a whole row of blisters had risen on the left side of pao y's face but that fortunately no injury had been done to his eyes when madame wang's attention was drawn to them she felt her heart soar
011938_10805_000067 has no sooner come into the world and reached a certain age than numerous evil spirits at once secretly haunt him and pinch him and when they find an opportunity or dig their nails into him
011938_10805_000068 dreadful she then said to the taoist matron dreadful but speaking of this sort of mistress i'm not so much as a human being if she doesn't manage to shift over into her mother's home the whole of this family estate
011938_10805_000069 misses chao was filled with trepidation hastily waving her hand she got to her feet raised the portiere and peeped outside perceiving that there was no one about she at length retraced her footsteps
011938_10805_000070 but upon raising his head he descried in the southwest corner some one or other leaning by the side of the railing under the covered passage a crab-apple tree however obstructed the view and he could not see distinctly who it was
011938_10805_000071 as for lin tai y when she found that pao y had gone out of doors she continued the whole day a prey to ennui in the evening she deputed messengers two and three times to go and inquire about him
011938_10805_000072 so advancing a step further in he stared with intent gaze it was in point of fact the waiting-maid of the day before tarrying about plunged in a reverie
011938_10805_000073 pao y speedily walked out of the door with slipshod shoes under the pretence of admiring the flowers he glanced now towards the east now towards the west
011938_10805_000074 need you tell me this ma the taoist matron at these words remarked with a view to ascertain what she implied haven't i forsooth discovered it all for myself
011938_10805_000075 lin tai y imagined that the burn was of an extremely serious nature and she hastened to approach him with a view to examine it pao y however screened his face and waving his hand
011938_10805_000076 while uttering this remark she stretched out her two fingers ma the taoist matron understood the meaning she desired to convey it's your lady secunda lien eh she forthwith asked
011938_10805_000077 his wish was to go forward and meet her but he did not on the other hand see how he could very well do so just as he was cogitating within himself he of a sudden perceived pi hen come and ask him to go and wash his face
011938_10805_000078 madame wang then ordered the servants to take care and escort pao y back to his room on their arrival hsi jen and the other attendants saw him and they were all in a great state of flurry
011938_10805_000079 but when she came to know that he had been scalded she hurried in person to come and see him she then discovered pao all alone holding a glass and scanning his features in it while the left side of his face was plastered all over with some medicine
011938_10805_000080 that will be quite enough to tell her if you say that you scalded it yourself lady feng observed why she'll also call people to task for not looking out and a fit of rage will beyond doubt be the outcome of it all
011938_10805_000081 for up to whom in this house can my son and i come pao is still a mere child but he is such that he wins people's love those big people may be partial to him and love him a good deal i've nothing to say to it but i can't eat humble pie to this sort of mistress
011938_10805_000082 yet if you daren't openly do anything why you should stealthily have devised some plan and do you still tarry up to this day misses chao realized that there lurked something in her insinuation and she felt an inward secret joy what plan could i stealthily devise she asked
011938_10805_000083 the next day pao y saw dowager lady chia but in spite of his confession that he himself was responsible for the scalding of his face his grandmother could not refrain from reading another lecture to the servants who had been in attendance
011938_10805_000084 how is it she speedily urged that an intelligent person like you should have become so dense if indeed the spell prove efficacious and we exterminate them both is there any apprehension that this family estate won't be ours
011938_10805_000085 or knock there his bowl of rice down during meal time or give him a shove and send him over while he is quietly seated so this is the reason why the majority of the sons and grandsons of those distinguished families do not grow up to attain manhood
011938_10805_000086 yet it's fortunate that you don't trouble your minds about her for it's far better that you should let her have her own way my dear woman rejoined mrs chao not let her have her own way why is it likely that any one would have the courage to tell her anything
011938_10805_000087 so go to miss lin's over there and find one for us to use hsiao hung hastened on her way towards the hsiao hsiang kuan when she got as far as the ts'ui yen bridge she saw on raising her head and looking round the mounds and lofty places entirely shut in by screens
011938_10805_000088 bade her leave the room for knowing her usual knack for tidiness he did not feel inclined to let her get a glimpse of his face tai yue then gave up the attempt and confined herself to asking him whether it was very painful
011938_10805_000089 it isn't very sore replied pao-yu if i look after it for a day or two it will get all right but after another short stay lin tai-yu repaired back to her quarters
011938_10805_000090 she was communing with her own thoughts but unawares perceiving hsi jen wave her hand and call her by name she had to walk up to her our watering-pot is spoilt hsi jen smiled and said
011938_10805_000091 chia huan accordingly came and seated himself on the stove-couch occupied by madame wang and directing a servant to light the candles he started copying in an ostentatious and dashing manner
011938_10805_000092 i don't mean to utter any words that may bring upon me retribution added ma the taoist matron but you people haven't got the wits but it's no matter of surprise
011938_10805_000093 and she bethought herself that labourers were that day to plant trees in that particular locality at a great distance off a band of men were in very deed engaged in digging up the soil while chia yn was seated on a boulder on the hill superintending the works
011938_10805_000094 a day after ma a taoist matron whose name was recorded as pao-yu's godmother came on a visit to the mansion upon perceiving pao-yu she was very much taken aback and asked all about the circumstances of the accident
012028_12316_000000 nothing save objects and thoughts of beauty could present themselves to the understanding of the fortunate person who partook of it these pages which you have brought to me to translate are concerned with this superstition
012028_12316_000001 literally i cannot translate this for you actually i will i can get at the sense i can get at the sense quite well but if one could only find the man who wrote it he is the man i should like to see
012028_12316_000002 there was a monastery somewhere near the excavations which i had the honor to conduct in syria where an ancient prayer book contained prayers in this language
012028_12316_000003 mr waddington was taken aback but i picked all the beans he replied there were only the leaves left never mind that burton cried it is the leaves we want the tree where is it quick i want myself to feel absolutely safe
012028_12316_000004 burton rose to his feet he held out his hand for the manuscript i am extremely obliged to you my dear sir  now i must go
012028_12316_000005 mr cowper looked at his visitor in amazement my young friend he said are you going to tell me that you have seen one of these beans not only that but i have eaten one burton said in fact i have eaten two
012028_12316_000006 a green leaf of the little tree is to follow the consumption of the bean burton sprang to his feet a thousand thanks professor he cried that is the one thing we were seeking to discover the leaves of course
012028_12316_000007 did he mention anything about beans burton asked anxiously mr cowper nodded benignantly the perfect food referred to he said
012028_12316_000008 appears to have been produced in the shape of small beans they are to be eaten with great care and to ensure permanency in the results
012028_12316_000009 mr waddington's face was blank you have heard the translation of those sheets i have burton answered hastily i will tell you all about it directly as soon as you have brought me the tree mr waddington turned a little pale
012028_12316_000010 i gave it to a child in the street on my way home from idlemay house he declared there was no sign of any more beans coming and i had more than enough to carry
012028_12316_000011 mr cowper was greatly excited where are they show me one where is the tree how did the man come to write this where did he write it let me see one of the beans burton produced the little silver snuff box in which he carried them with his left hand he kept the professor away
012028_12316_000012 no he cried you must not take these away you must not even think of it leave me the sheets just as they are i will go no further back there are several words at the meaning of which i have only guessed
012028_12316_000013 and let me tell you this that superstition you have spoken of has truth in it these beans are indeed a spiritual food they alter character they have the most amazing effect upon a man's moral system
012028_12316_000014 mr burton if the pages were written so recently where is the writer he is dead burton replied mr cowper sighed
012028_12316_000015 young man mr cowper insisted i must eat one burton shook his head mr cowper he said there are reasons why i find it very hard to deny you anything but as regards those beans you will neither eat one nor even hold it in your hand
012028_12316_000016 the legend of the perfect food appears in the manuscripts of many centuries it antedates literature by generations there is a tomb in the interior of japan sacred to a saint who for seventy years worked for the production of this very bean
012028_12316_000017 there were gray clouds in the sky a north wind booming across the moors burton even shivered as he walked down the hill to the house where she lived
012028_12316_000018 when burton had finished he rose to his feet in a state of great excitement this is indeed wonderful he declared it is more wonderful even than you can know of
012028_12316_000019 burton told his story with absolute sincerity the professor was intensely interested it was perhaps strange that extraordinary though it was he never for one minute doubted the truth of what he heard
012028_12316_000020 sit down and i shall you a story which sounds which it might have happened a thousand years ago it happened in the last three months listen
012028_12316_000021 that let me tell you was three thousand years ago my young friend you have indeed been favored let me understand this thing burton said anxiously
012028_12316_000022 there was still gorse still heather still a few roses in the garden and a glimmering vision of the beds of the other flowers in the background
012028_12316_000023 but the sun which gave them life was hidden burton looked eagerly into the garden and his heart sank there was no sign there of any living person
012028_12316_000024 three months will soon pass burton replied until that time is up i could not part with them but you can't imagine the professor pleaded how marvelously marvelously interesting this is to me
012028_12316_000025 the girl announced the professor is in his study sir burton stood quite still for a moment it was absurd that his heart should be so suddenly heavy that all the spring and buoyancy should have gone out of life
012028_12316_000026 first of all he said i must test the truth of this i cannot run any risks i must go and eat a leaf if in three months no change has taken place in me i will lend you a bean to examine
012028_12316_000027 after that you will have no more need of these three beans and therefore you can give them to me burton made no attempt to produce his little silver box
012028_12316_000028 i can do no more than that until this matter is absolutely settled they are worth more than life itself to me mr cowper seemed annoyed surely he protested you are not going to ask me to wait three months until i can examine one of these
012028_12316_000029 for the first time he realized the direction in which his thoughts had been traveling since he had left his rooms an hour ago he had to remind himself that it was the professor whom he had gone to see
012028_12316_000030 those pages say that if one eats a green leaf after the bean the change wrought in one will be absolutely permanent that is so the professor assented now all that you have to do is to eat a green leaf from the very tree
012028_12316_000031 after a moment's hesitation he opened the gate passed up the neat little path and rang the bell it was opened after the briefest of delays by the trim parlor-maid is your mistress at home he asked miss edith has gone to london for two days sir
012028_12316_000032 the faint odor which seemed shaken out of them into the room stimulated his curiosity he sniffed at it with great content
012028_12316_000033 there is very little of it burton said just a page or so which apparently the writer never had time to finish the sheets came into my hands in a rather curious way and i should very much like to have an exact translation of them
012028_12316_000034 hum well well he continued starting upon his task with avidity we will talk about him presently this is indeed miraculous i am deeply grateful to you for having brought me this manuscript
012028_12316_000035 remember that i have spent all my life digging among the archives and the literature and the superstitions of these pre egyptian people you are the first man in the world outside a little circle of fellow workers to come to speak of me of this food
012028_12316_000036 have tasted the result of thousands of years of unceasing study wise men in their cells before athens was built before pyramids were conceived were thinking out this matter in strange parts of egypt syria and asia
012028_12316_000037 mr cowper received him graciously if a little vaguely burton wasted no time however in announcing the nature of his errand directly he produced the sheets the professor became interested
012028_12316_000038 for generations their dream has been looked upon as a thing as elusive as the philosopher's stone the transmutation of metals any of these unsolved problems
012028_12316_000039 leave them with me for a few days and i will make you an exact translation very well burton assented and one bean leave me one bean only  i promise not to eat it not to dissect it not to subject it to any experiments of the sort
012028_12316_000040 strange he remarked very strange i haven't smelt that perfume since i was with the excavators at chaldea a real oriental flavor young man about your manuscript
012028_12316_000041 your story that how it came into your hands is the most amazing romance i have ever heard it confirms many of my theories it is wonderful do you realize what has happened you in your insignificant person the professor continued shaking his finger at his visitor
012028_12316_000042 why should it have been deemed necromancy to endeavor to combine these parts to evolve by careful elimination and change to the perfect food
012028_12316_000043 for five hundred years since the day of a russian scientist who lived on the black sea but whose name for the moment i have forgotten the whole subject has lain dead
012028_12316_000044 will miss edith be back tomorrow burton asked the professor stared at him miss edith he replied oh my daughter is she not in
012028_12316_000045 his face displayed the most utmost enthusiasm in his task it is most amazing this he declared drawing up a chair to the table
012028_12316_000046 my dear young man he exclaimed my dear mr mr burton why this is wonderful where did you get these sheets do you say are you honestly telling me that they were written within the last thousand years
012028_12316_000047 it is indeed true that the fairy tales of one generation become the science of the next our own learned men have been blind the whole chain of reasoning is so clear every article of human food contains its separate particles affecting the moral as well as the physical systems
012028_12316_000048 at the first glance however his expression changed it was obvious that he was greatly interested it was obvious also that he was correspondingly surprised
012028_12316_000049 without a doubt mr burton replied they were written in london a few months ago mr cowper was already busy surrounding himself with strange-looking volumes
012028_12316_000050 in the house young man which you have told me of there died the hero of the greatest discovery which has ever been made since the world began to spin upon its orbit
012028_12316_000051 i don't even know what the language is i thought perhaps you might be able to help me i will explain to you later if you allow me the exact nature of my interest in them mr cooper took the pages into his hand with a benevolent smile
012028_12316_000052 to miss edith yes yes of course mr cowper declared impatiently when shall you be down again my young friend he went on earnestly i want to hear more of the experiences i want you to tell me the whole thing over again i should get a signed statement from you
012028_12316_000053 the professor walked his guest to the front door he seemed reluctant to let him go take care of yourself mr burton he said yours is a precious life on no account subject yourself to any risks be careful of crossings don't expose yourself to inclement weather
012028_12316_000054 not as our more modern scientists of a few hundred years ago have done in the attempt to turn baser metals into gold but in the attempt to constitute from simple elements the perfect food for man
012028_12316_000055 presently he leaned back in his chair he kept one hand upon the loose sheets of the manuscript while with the other he removed his spectacles and closed his eyes for a moment
012028_12316_000056 let me just have it to look at to be sure that what you have told me is not an hallucination burton shook his head i dare not part with one i am going back straight back to test the leaf theory if it is correct i shall keep my promise and will you remember me to miss edith when she returns
012028_12316_000057 mr cowper was busy for the next quarter of an hour his expression as he turned up dictionaries and made notes was still full of the liveliest and most intense interest
012028_12316_000058 these sheet are written in a language which has been dead as a medium of actual intercourse over two thousand years you meet with it sometimes in old egyptian manuscripts
012028_12316_000059 my young friend he said did you ever hear a quaint asiatic legend perhaps a superstition you could say that many and many a wise man for four thousand years spent his night and his days
012028_12316_000060 there are several points in connection with what you say which bear out a favorite theory of mine i will come in a few days if i may mister burton assured him
012028_12316_000061 she is away for two days your servant told me burton replied perhaps so perhaps so the professor agreed she has gone to her aunt's very likely in chelsea my sister has a house there in bromsgrove terrace
012028_12316_000062 it was to come to man in the nature of a fruit it was to give him not eternal life for that was valueless but eternal and absolute understanding so that nothing in life could be harmful
012028_12316_000063 she shook hands and hurried away in less than an hour and a half he was in mr waddington's room the latter had just arrived from office mr waddington burton exclaimed the little tree on which the beans grew where is it
012028_12316_000064 burton shook his head he was somewhat mystified i have never heard anything of the sort he acknowledged the whole literature of ancient egypt and the neighboring countries mr cowper proceeded abounds with mystical stories of this perfect food
012028_12316_000065 keep away from any place likely to harbor infectious disease i should very much like to have a meeting in london of a few of my friends if i could ensure your presence when i come down again mr burton promised we will discuss this
012028_12461_000000 about ten feet from the crystal boulder on which she had been sitting the ozpril came to a gentle and perfect landing scarcely had the whirr and the sputter of its engine died away before the door of the cabin burst open
012028_12461_000001 and sooner than soon i will return bringing you the magic treasure and the jewels and the crown and the scepter of this ohsma oh but you mustn't wailed jellia clasping her hands desperately
012028_12461_000002 i tell you she proposed generously i tell you if strut destroys the emerald city you can all come back and live with me that is if glinda and the wizard can make bustabo give my castle and kingdom back
012028_12461_000003 do you not that this is strut changed to the great beast by the ozma of oz but he is as powerful and as able as ever to rule this kingdom strut imperiously jellia appealed to the cowardly lion am i the starina of stratovania
012028_12461_000004 too exhausted by the dreadful ordeal that she had just been going through to run and meet the ship she jerked off her scarf and waved it wildly over her head
012028_12461_000005 which was perhaps as convincing an answer as he could have given there you see jellia shrugged her shoulders as queen kabebe and the blowmen turned as white as ghosts and began to move away
012028_12461_000006 lowering his head so the princess could slip the bell from his antlers the stag stood looking at us solemnly i will promised azarine azarine waved her little handkerchief and the two deer sprang away
012028_12461_000007 ozma is a real princess and much more beautiful than i in that case i shall bring ohsma and make her a starina also
012028_12461_000008 at a signal from strut one seized nick a second the soldier and a third was about to take hold of jellia when strut sternly waved him aside
012028_12461_000009 fierce airlanders from the upper strat are descending in the emerald city of oz read the straw man nearly losing his balance if measures of defense are not taken at once the capital will fall under the fierce attack of the invaders
012028_12461_000010 well it's certainly a mix-up said dorothy moving closer to the wizard what do these people look like jellia i'd really enjoy seeing a few
012028_12461_000011 and of the curious celebrities who lived in the palace with ozma azarine was already charmed with scarecrow and the cowardly lion and kept leaning down to have a better look at the tawny beast trotting so unconcernedly between the two deer
012028_12461_000012 even at a distance jellia could spell out the name on the gleaming body and as the silvery plane came swooping toward them she could not repress a shout of joy
012028_12461_000013 the poor lion was startled at jellia's question as the stratovanians from sheer shock he rose on his hind legs and gave a perfectly awful roar roar
012028_12461_000014 they look like nothing you ever have imagined jellia told her with a slight shudder goochers here come some now oh it's those blowmen and all the others look wizard could we reach ozpril before they reach us
012028_12461_000015 what makes you think that strut has not returned questioned jellia grandly do you not recognize your master with a regal wave jellia pointed to the cowardly lion
012028_12461_000016 no not that one she is our new starina he told the blowman roughly now you are to stay here jellia my dear and help rule over stratovania while i descend to aus and take possession of that rich and prosperous country
012028_12461_000017 we'll wait in the garden he whistled softly houses and castles are too stuffy and shut up for dear people if you need me princess just ring the silver bell
012028_12461_000018 here you are at last cried the wizard happily rushing over to jellia and seizing both of her hands so this is where you've been well i must say it's a nice place it's fine why it's beautiful beautiful
012028_12461_000019 and down climbed the little wizard of oz followed by dorothy and the scarecrow the cowardly lion last of all had difficulty fitting his paws on the rungs and after a trembling descent rolled over on his back his four feet straight up into the air
012028_12461_000020 and what are your majesty's wishes inquired jellia inclining her head graciously toward the trembling lion take that woman away and have our supper prepared and served at once in the royal pavilion directed the lion in his most commanding roar
012028_12461_000021 but they had his arms pinioned behind his back and the poor tin woodman was unable to help himself oh that's all right answered strut i and the tin guy will ride in the friend ship
012028_12461_000022 swinging around so he could look in all directions the wizard positively glowed with interest and enthusiasm what's so beautiful about it growled the lion without turning over is there any grass are there any trees is there anything to eat
012028_12461_000023 oh please please couldn't you leave soldier to keep me company she sobbed wiping her streaming eyes on her sash of course of course if you wish
012028_12461_000024 dorothy on the point of embracing jellia gave a little scream for the tell all escope which she had picked up just before leaving the plane was making terse announcements at this point it happened to be pointed at jellia clearing its throat it remarked in a superior way
012028_12461_000025 now hippenscop he directed shaking his finger at the odd-looking page you and junnenrump are to obey jellia in everything
012028_12461_000026 it does sound like the master stuttered the blowman as the cowardly lion followed up his roar with a reverberating growl
012028_12461_000027 this trip had not agreed with the cowardly lion at all weak and dizzy he made no attempt to rise
012037_12066_000000 plutarch in his life of pericles says the whole fleet was in readiness and pericles on board his own galley when there happened an eclipse of the sun
012037_12066_000001 according to xenophon they found at this place a large deserted city formerly inhabited by the medes its wall was twenty-five feet thick and hundred feet high
012037_12066_000002 and may be quite conspicuous in annular or a considerable partial eclipse the exaggeration of the single object to a plural is in generally very easy another difficulty is to be sure of the locality where the eclipse was total
012037_12066_000003 it must however in fairness be stated that a very competent american astronomer professor newcomb has expressed doubts as to whether after all
012037_12066_000004 would so raise the position of the shadow and as to throw it far too much to the n of sicily for agathocles who we know must have gone southwards to africa to have entered it
012037_12066_000005 the sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavourable omen and threw the sailors into the greatest consternation pericles observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed
012037_12066_000006 sir g b airy was such a very careful worker and investigator of eclipses that his conclusions in this matter have met with general acceptance
012037_12066_000007 for agathocles and his fleet to have been in it yet we know for certainty that he was in it and in that year and no other year conversely if six hundred and three b c were accepted for the thales's eclipse
012037_12066_000008 zeus the father of the olympic gods turned the mid day into night hiding the light of the dazzling sun an overwhelming dread fell upon men the poet's language may evidently apply to a total eclipse of the sun
012037_12066_000009 it is said by frequent intoxication recorded an interesting event in the following words nonis junii soli luna obstetit et nox on the nones of june the moon was in opposite to the sun and night
012037_12066_000010 then to rise northwards the position of the shadow in that year from the line of the red sea and the persian gulf that it might pass through asia minor
012037_12066_000011 geographical miles seem to intervene between the most southerly position which could be assigned to the fleet of agathocles and the most northly possible limit of the path of the eclipse shadow
012037_12066_000012 xenophon's allusion is to an eclipse but judging by his closing words the learned american does not seem quite satisfied with his own scepticism for he says
012037_12066_000013 the date of this eclipse is distinctly known to be june twenty one four hundred b c but the hour was long in dispute professor zech found that the sun set at rome eclipsed
012037_12066_000014 in cicero's time the nones of june fell on the fifth but in the time of ennius who lived a century and a half before cicero the nones of june fell between june five and july four on account of the lunar years and the intercalary month of the roman calendar
012037_12066_000015 and investigations by oppolzer and millosevich make it probable that the reference is to the total eclipse of the sun which happened on april sixth six hundred and forty-eight b c
012037_12066_000016 but too much romance attache to the history of romulus for anyone to write with assurance respecting the circumstances of his career much of it is generally considered to be fabulous
012037_12066_000017 it is commonly assumed that the description necessarily refers to something seen where the writer flourished or where he locates his story it seems to me that this cannot be safely done unless the statement is made in connection with some battle or military movement
012037_12066_000018 herodotus describing a war which had been going on for some years between the lydians and the medes gives the following account of the circumstances which led to its premature termination
012037_12066_000019 and if it was an eclipse at all the circumstances of totality placed beyond serious doubt in the same year as that in which according to the common account
012037_12066_000020 and his astronomical labours were said to have included a prediction of this eclipse which moreover has the further interest to us that it has assisted chronologists and historians in fixing the precise date of an important event in ancient history
012037_12066_000021 and that the maximum phase took place after sun-set hansen however with his better tables found that the eclipse was total at rome and that the totality ended at seven thirty-three p m
012037_12066_000022 this is where the matter was left by airy in eighteen fifty-three four years later the new solar and lunar tables of the german astronomer hansen were published and having been applied to the eclipse of five hundred eighty-five b c
012037_12066_000023 notwithstanding my want of confidence i conceive the possibility of a real eclipse to be greater than in the eclipse of thales while we have the great advantages that the point of occurrence is well defined the shadow narrow
012037_12066_000024 instead of saying et nox he should have said et simul nox and immediately it was night newcomb questions the totality of this eclipse but assigns no clear reasons for his doubts
012037_12066_000025 the shadow of the eclipse of five hundred eighty five b c will be found to have passed where ancient history tells us it did pass namely through ionia and therefore through the centre of asia minor
012037_12066_000026 passed within a hundred miles of syracuse a fact which is stated almost in those very words by the two historians who have recorded the doings of agathocles and his fleet in those years
012037_12066_000027 the conclusions just stated were amply confirmed as if to make assurance doubly sure airy went over his ground again testing his former conclusions with regard to the eclipse of thales by the eclipse of larissa
012037_12066_000028 on august fourteenth three hundred ninety four b c there was a large eclipse of the sun visible in the mediterranean it occurred in the forenoon and is mentioned by xenophon in connection with a naval engagement in which the persians were defeated by conon
012037_12066_000029 plutarch in his life of pelopidas relates how one alexander of pherae had devastated several cities of thessaly and that as soon as the oppressed inhabitants had learned that
012037_12066_000030 day was thus turned into night we are told that as king was going against greece and had come into the region of  hellespont there happened an eclipse of the sun in the east this sign portered to him his defeat
012037_12066_000031 this was total at about ten a m at thasos and in the northern part of the aegean sea the acceptance of this date displaces by about half a century the date commonly assigned for the poet's career
012037_12066_000032 at the moment of its departure the sun suddenly quitted its place in the heavens and disappeared though there were no clouds in sight and the day was quite clear
012037_12066_000033 on a date which corresponds to february eleven two hundred eighteen or two hundred seventeen b c an eclipse of the sun which was partial in italy is mentioned by livy
012037_12066_000034 this was the condition of the problem when sir g b airy took it up in eighteen fifty three he however was able to throw an entirely new light upon the matter
012037_12066_000035 airy thought that extremely probable that the narrative related to the total eclipse of the moon which happened on march thirteen four hundred seventy-nine b c
012037_12066_000036 there happened an eclipse also visible in or near the mediterrean this is supposed to have been the eclipse for the prediction of which helicon a friend of plato received from dionysius king of syracuse payment for the shape of a talent
012037_12066_000037 but as the general was on the point of marching the sun began to be eclipsed and the city was covered with darkness in the daytime this eclipse is generally identified with that of july thirteen three hundred sixty four b c
012037_12066_000038 had been foretold for the ionians by thales of miletus who predicted for it the very year in which it actually took place when the lydians and medes observed the change they ceased fighting and were alike anxious to conclude peace
012037_12066_000039 though not total at sardis yet the eclipse was very large ninety-four per cent of the sun being covered if we accept this it follows that the usually recognised date for the battle of salamis must be altered by two years
012037_12066_000040 pelopidas had come back from an embassy of which he had been to the king of persia they sent deputies to him to thebes to beg the favour of armed assistance with pelopidas as general the thebans willingly granted their request and an army was soon got ready
012037_12066_000041 xenophon then proceeds to say that when the persians obtained the empire from the medes the king of the persians besieged the city but was unable by any means to take it till a cloud having covered the sun and caused it to disappear completely
012037_12066_000042 if this is correct plutarch's language must be incorrect or at least greatly exaggerated for no more than about three fourths of the sun was obscured on february twenty-nine three hundred fifty-seven b c
012037_12066_000043 in this chapter we shall for the most part be on firmer ground than hitherto because several of the most eminent greek and latin historians have left on record full and circumstantial accounts of eclipses which have come under their notice
012037_12066_000044 peace was accordingly agreed upon and cemented by a twofold marriage for says the historian without some strong bond there is little security to be found in men's covenants
012037_12066_000045 as the balance had not inclined in favor of either nation another engagement took place in sixth year of the war in the course of which just the battle was growing warm day was suddenly turned into night this event
012037_12066_000046 the exact date of this eclipse was long a matter of discussion and eclipses which occurred in six hundred and ten b c and five hundred and ninety-three b c were each thought at one time or another to have been the one referred to
012037_12066_000047 newcomb found that the central line passed a long way from italy to wit far down in africa an eclipse of the sun is mentioned by dion cassius as having happened when csar crossed the rubicon
012037_12066_000048 and as the final result it may be stated that all the foregoing dates are now known to an absolute certainty especially confirmed as they were in all essential points by a computer of the eminence of the late mr g r hind
012037_12066_000049 and the identification of the eclipse is still uncertain hind's theory is that the allusion is to an eclipse and in particular to the eclipse of february seventeenth four hundred seventy-eight b c
012037_12066_000050 took his cloak and having covered his eyes with it asked him if he found anything terrible in that or considered it as a bad
012037_12066_000051 the question was finally settled by the late sir g b airy after an exhaustive inquiry in favour of the eclipse of five hundred eighty five b c this date has the further advantage of harmonising certain statements made by cicero and pliny
012037_12066_000052 but this is difficult to accept especially as plutarch in his life of pelopidas says an army was soon got ready but as the general was on the point of marching the sun began to be eclipsed and the city was covered with darkness in the daytime
012037_12066_000053 he does this by refusing to see in the above quotations from herodotus any allusion to a solar eclipse at all but invites us to consider a later statement in herodotus as relating to an eclipse though the historian only calls it a prodigy
012037_12066_000054 if he had predicted it to the lydians in whose country the eclipse was to be total his conduct would be intelligible but it seems strange that he should have predicted it to the ionians who had no direct interest in this event
012037_12066_000055 with the annular eclipse that happened seven years previously when caesar passed the the rubicon to which eclipse allusion has already been made
012037_12066_000056 we have now to consider another ancient eclipse which has a history of peculiar interest as regards the investigations to which it has been subjected
012037_12066_000057 and that the eclipse must have been that of march seven fifty-one b c the circumstances of this eclipse have been investigated by hind who found that the eclipse was an annular one the angular face less than six and a half minutes in the northern italy
012037_12066_000058 arago associates the death of julius caesar in forty four b c with an annular eclipse of the sun but seemingly without sufficient warrant the actual record is to the effect that about the time of the great warrior's death there was an extraordinary dimness of the sun
012037_12066_000059 the next day there was such an eclipse of the sun that the stars appeared everywhere in the firmament and the day was turned into night upon which agathocles's soldiers conceiving that god thereby
012037_12066_000060 whatever it was it was noticed clearly it could not have been an annular eclipse because no such eclipse then happened johnson suggests that arago confused the record of some meteorological interference with the sun's light
012037_12066_000061 this seems explicit enough assuming the record to be true and that the same incident is referred to by plutarch as by herodotus and aristides since the time when airy and hind examined this question all the known facts have been again reviewed by mister w t
012037_12066_000062 agathocles also though closely pursued by the enemy by the advantage of the night coming on beyond all hope got safe off from them
012037_12066_000063 as to its having happened in the fourth year of the forty eight olympia another word or two may be interesting as regards to the share which thales is supposed to have had in predicting this eclipse
012037_12066_000064 the more so that very high authorities in the domains of astronomy and chronology and antiquities take opposite sides in the matter
012037_12066_000065 it is commonly known as the eclipse of agathocles and it is recorded by two historians of antiquity in the words following diodorus siculus says
012037_12066_000066 lynn who pronounces but with some hesitation in favour of the eclipse of october two four hundred eighty b c as the one associate with the battle of salamis
012037_12066_000067 i should not have mentioned this matter at all but for arago's high repute as astronomer according to seneca during an eclipse a comet was also seen
012037_12066_000068 but having happened afterwards he could not but think it presaged ill to those against whom they marched besides eclipses of the luminaries always signify a change of affairs
012037_12066_000069 the spartan troops were under the command of cleombrotus the brother of leonidas the hero of thermopyl he had been consulting the oracles in sparta
012037_12066_000070 the inhabitants withdrew in alarm and thus the city was captured close to this city was a pyramid of stone one plethrum in breadth two plethra in height
012037_12066_000071 the king was at no less pain to satisfy them about this affair than about the war and therefore he told them that he should have thought this sign an ill presage for them if it had happened before they set out
012037_12066_000072 by the harangue the hearts of the soldiers were somehow elevated but an eclipse of the sun that had happened during their voyage still possessed them with superstitious fears of a bad omen
012037_12066_000073 it is an interesting question to inquire whether any allusions to eclipses are to be found in homer and no very certain answer can be given in the iliad book seventeen lines three hundred sixty-six two hundred sixty-eight the following passage will be found
012037_12066_000074 the tables used by baily were distinctly inferior to those now in use and sir g b airy thought himself justified in saying that to obviate the discordance of one hundred and eighty miles just referred to
012037_12066_000075 bosanquet replies to this by pointing out that miletus in ionia was the birthplace of thales and also that a shadow covering two degrees of latitude passing through ionia would also necessarily cover lydia
012037_12066_000076 and herodotus states that while he was offering sacrifice to know if he should march out against the persian the sun was suddenly darkened in midsky
012037_12066_000077 this occurrence so frightened the cleombrotus that he drew off his forces and returned home it is uncertain from the narrative of herodotus whether cleombrotus returned to sparta in the autumn of the
012037_12066_000078 he says the prediction of this eclipse by thales may fairly be classed with the prediction of a good olive crop or the fall of an arolite thales indeed could only have obtained the requisite knowledge for predicting eclipses from the chaldeans
012037_12066_000079 another dissentient is sir h c rawlinson who remembering that thales is said to have predicted a good olive crop and anaxagoras the fall of an arolite
012037_12066_000080 upon his answering in the negative he said where is the difference then between this and the other except that something bigger than my cloak causes the eclipse
012037_12066_000081 that there was for a long while a great deficiency of sunshine in italy about the time of caesar's death seems clear from remarks made by pliny plutarch and tibullus and the words of suetonius seems to imply something of meteorological character
012037_12066_000082 and which have been more or less completely verified by the computations and research of astronomers in modern times but these remarks do not however quite apply to the first eclipse which will be mentioned
012037_12066_000083 and the sun has utterly perished from heaven and an evil gloom is overspread this was considered by old commentators to be an illusion to an eclipse and in the opinion of w w merry
012037_12066_000084 and therefore some change was certainly signified either to carthage which was in such a flourishing condition or to them whose affairs were in a very ruinous state
012037_12066_000085 i have in the many preceding pages been citing ancient eclipses for the reason more or less plainly expressed that they are of value to astronomers as assisting to define the theory of the moon's motions in its orbit and this they should do
012037_12066_000086 it is not at the first easy to localise the position of the fleet except that we may infer that it could hardly be yet more than eighteen or at the most a hundred miles away from the harbour of syracuse where it had been closely blockaded by a carthaginian fleet
012037_12066_000087 thucydides states that during the peloponnesian war things formerly repeated on hearsay but very rarely confirmed by facts became not incredible both about earthquakes and eclipses of the sun which came to pass more frequently than had been remembered in former times
012037_12066_000088 and that the science of these astronomers although sufficient for the investigation of lunar eclipses did not enable them to calculate solar eclipses
012037_12066_000089 the substance of these statements is that in the year three hundred and ten b c agathocles child of syracuse while conducting his fleet from syracuse to the coast of africa
012119_11765_000000 they were on the paternal side of the ancient bernardine race and on the maternal side of the newfoundland race several litters of puppies were reared from this couple which were given away and sold and thus became spread about
012119_11765_000001 in bitches from fifteen to eighteen months but no dog should be allowed to serve a bitch until he has reached the age of two years by which time he will have fully matured the best season of the year for breeding
012119_11765_000002 i asked him which barry he alluded to why said he to the one that is stuffed at berne and then he continued to relate that in the year eighteen fifteen he had himself taken barry then living on foot to berne where he was killed and stuffed
012119_11765_000003 they are of no use to the dog and are not taken into considering in judging coat very dense broken haired lying smooth hard without being rough to the touch thighs are slightly feathered the hair at the root of the tail is rather long and dense
012119_11765_000004 in the short-haired variety the coat is more uniform and whether a dog be out of coat or whether the coat be of the correct quality or not the nature of the coat is more readily overlooked
012119_11765_000005 there are dogs which have on their hind feet a regularly developed fifth toe or thumb the so-called dew-claws wolf sklauen which sometimes occur on the inside of the hind legs are imperfectly developed toes
012119_11765_000006 more angular and wider thus giving the head more character eyes set more to the front than to the sides of moderate size brown or nut-brown with an intelligent and friendly expression set moderately deep
012119_11765_000007 ears with weak burr causing them to lie close to the head from their root give it an oval shape which imparts too much softness to the outline whereas strongly developed ear muscles make the skull appear
012119_11765_000008 but merely held him down by the moral persuasion of a pair of heavy paws and an ominous growl when he attempted to move end of quote principles of breeding
012119_11765_000009 and a weight of two hundred pounds or over plinlimmon is thirty-five inches high sir bedivere and watch are each more than thirty-four inches and many others are over thirty-three inches volumes could be filled with anecdotes and incidents of the remarkable instinct the superior judgment the almost human intellect of the st bernard
012119_11765_000010 the old man wept with joy and said without ceasing jo donnera barry le vrai meux barry gue je suis heureux this is barry the genuine old barry how happy i am
012119_11765_000011 it is extremely necessary that both parents should be in perfect health at the time of breeding the bitch especially so she may be enabled to sustain the growth of the puppies before birth and provide ample milk for them afterward the best age at which to breed st bernards is
012119_11765_000012 place a smooth coat along a rough coat of the same height and weight and you will invariably decide in favor of the latter as to size when not seeing them together the smooth coat is of a more compact build and shorter than the rough coat generally speaking
012119_11765_000013 the heroic services rendered by these dogs in rescuing and aiding snow-bound travelers in the swiss alps are too well known to require further mention here hundreds of instances occurring in our own country should be cited had we the space for them as showing the steadfast devotion of the st bernard
012119_11765_000014 the bitches are throughout of a less powerful and slighter build than the dogs variations from these points are to be considered faulty the long-haired rough saint bernard is exactly like the other with the exception of the coat which ought not to be broken haired but of medium length
012119_11765_000015 there appears to be no authentic record concerning its origin or early development it is evident that the monks at the hospice and simplon had a breed of dogs which was named after the good old monk st bernard of menthon
012119_11765_000016 his friends i may recall the case of a boy who was drowned in a lake in new york while skating the body of the grand old st bernard dog who had been the constant companion of the boy was found at the bottom of the lake near that of his young master and the indications pointed plainly to the fact that the boy having broken through the ice the dog had gone to his aid had caught him and tried to pull him out
012119_11765_000017 and although the dog had no training and was only eight months old she performed the task admirably if not as quick as she did afterward carrie never took a slide after that without having sylvia to draw her up the hill i could never tell which enjoyed it most both growing stronger under the influence of bracing air and exercise end of quote
012119_11765_000018 the white spot on the nape of the neck and a blaze are much desired never self colored or without any white all other colors are faulty except the favorite dark shadings in the face markings and on the ears height at shoulder
012119_11765_000019 getting gradually shorter toward the point the tail appears bushy but not feathered color white with red or red with white the red in all its various shades white with light to dark barred brindle patches
012119_11765_000020 and when they succeeded in finding a belated traveler one would hasten back to the monastery to alarm its inmates while the other would endeavor to arouse the almost dying man with its barking and other demonstrations of distress a writer in the fancier gazette says
012119_11765_000021 is considered the best time to take her to the dog although some bitches will refuse to have any connection whatever with a dog later than the third day so to be on the safe side it is well to lose no time
012119_11765_000022 there existed then as now two varieties the rough or long haired and the smooth or short haired the latter were preferred by the monks for when the dogs were obliged to go out on their errands of mercy in heavy snowstorms the rough coats of the former would in a short time become matted
012119_11765_000023 and owing to continued exposure colds rheumatism and kindred troubles would ensue thus rendering them unfit for duty at times hence the long-haired type came to be looked upon with disfavor and numerous specimens were given away from time to time to persons who visited the monastery
012119_11765_000024 or these colors with white markings the colors red brindle and tawny are of equal value obligatory marks are white chest feet point of tail and white round the nose and collar
012119_11765_000025 there are at the present time eighteen sixty seven at the hospice some young puppies of barry that promise well and which will be according to all appearances still finer and larger than barry himself
012119_11765_000026 is in the spring and summer as the young produced at this season get more outdoor exercise which tends so much to strengthen the muscles and development generally winter puppies frequently become chilled
012119_11765_000027 that the ice had broken and the dog had fallen in then he had released his hold climbed out on the ice seized his master and tried again to drag him out but again the ice had broken these struggles had been repeated again and again until the noble brute exhausted by his efforts had sunk and died by the side of his young friend mr g w
012119_11765_000028 patterson writing of a st bernard bitch that he had formerly owned says my little girl was enjoying a slide last winter back of my house and sylvia was accompanying her down the hill by running alongside when she reached the bottom of the hill the girl held out the rope saying here sylvia you must draw me back up the hill
012119_11765_000029 bitches as a rule come in season twice a year at pretty regular intervals but we have known of some that produced three litters in two years this however is unusual when a bitch misses her next season is very apt to be one month earlier
012119_11765_000030 and hence their growth is slow they seldom reaching the statue of their more fortunate brothers another argument for spring and summer puppies is that these can compete at the following winter shows in the puppy classes for by that time they are sufficiently matured to stand the excitement
012119_11765_000031 it has been claimed by some of the opponents of the saint bernard that he is dull of comprehension and difficult to train my experience and observation tell me that such is by no means the case i have known many saint bernards that have been trained to perform some truly wonderful tricks errands and services
012119_11765_000032 incident to such scenes the bitch shows pretty plainly when she is about to come in heat as she becomes restless feverish and exceedingly affectionate in her disposition she usually has a bloody discharge from the vulva for nine days and from three to five days after the cessation of the discharge
012119_11765_000033 there is no reason to fear that the crossing of the two varieties will be at the expense of type on the contrary it is necessary this fact has been demonstrated in england and the continuous breeding of rough coats with rough coats has taught english breeder
012119_11765_000034 during the earlier periods of her pregnancy especially she should be in sight if possible of a typical dog as the antenatal impressions are often very pronounced she should also be kept apart from others not in a similar condition and while she should get ample exercise it must never be violent in any sense
012119_11765_000035 on the contrary it is a well-known fact that the breed was in existence in a crude and uncultivated state i admit but still in existence long before the founding of the hospice at st bernard as there are specimen of the old type to be found in some parts of switzerland to this very day a breed of dogs indigenous to the soil
012119_11765_000036 is permissible in fact this occurs nearly always and must be considered normal the feathers on the fore legs is only slight but on the thighs it appears especially
012119_11765_000037 a would-be successful breeder frequently inquires what shall i do to obtain the best possible results from my stock there are in reality so many things to be taken into consideration that a short and concise answer would be hard to give
012119_11765_000038 than if she had produced her litter and weaned them as soon as she's bred she should be put in a secure place as she will exercise great cunning in her efforts to escape and have intercourse with any animal she should chance to meet
012119_11765_000039 through the effects of a terrible avalanche all the dogs owned at the hospice were swept away and killed after this a pair that have been given away when mere puppies were returned and from these alone the true st bernard of today is descended
012119_11765_000040 the alpine or st bernard dog was not manufactured at the monastery neither was the variety originated some centuries after the death of st bernard de menthon himself
012119_11765_000041 the lower eyelids do not as a rule fit closely to the eyeballs and form toward the inner corner an angular wrinkle eyelids which are too pendent with conspicuously protruding lachrymal glands or a very red haw are objectionable
012119_11765_000042 and that with as little time and labor as would have been necessary to train the brightest spaniel to do the same work col c a swineford of baraboo wisconsin had a st bernard that would at his bidding stand on his hind feet
012119_11765_000043 it prospered marvelously and growing up attained a striking likeness to barry the most beautiful specimen of the ancient unmixed race which is now preserved the museum at berne
012119_11765_000044 never allow her to jump or run to any extent or to become alarmed toward the latter part of her time when it has been clearly ascertained that she is in whelp her food should be of a soft nature with considerable milk given daily
012119_11765_000045 whether this be true or not there can be no doubt that during several centuries of its existence as a breed there have been many crosses and experiments made to develop its strength scent endurance and this fact probably accounts for the great variety which we now find existing among our best dogs
012119_11765_000046 his master could send him with a note or package to any house or office where he had ever been and the dog would return promptly with the answer a few hours had been sufficient in which to teach the dog either of these tricks the st bernard is one of the most useful and valuable of all breeds as a watchdog while not vicious or savage
012119_11765_000047 place his fore feet on the office railing and walk from one end to the other of it in this position then at command he would place his hind feet on the railing and with his fore feet on the floor repeat the operation he would place his hind feet on the barrel and standing with his fore feet on the floor rolling it back and forth across the floor
012119_11765_000048 even the hospice dogs the tail is bushy with much but moderately long hair wavy or locky hair on the tail is not desirable a feathered tail or one with a parting is faulty face and ears are covered with soft hair at the basis of the ears longer
012119_11765_000049 but will if harnessed and hitched to a toy wagon draw them as faithfully and patient as an old horse he will allow them to ride him wool him or impose on his good nature in almost any way
012119_11765_000050 yero shaw in his valuable work the book of the dog quotes portions of a letter from m schumacher regarding the origin and early history of the st bernard
012119_11765_000051 this time as newly born puppies are easily chilled and thus destroyed the temperature should never be allowed to fall below sixty degree fahrenheit in the whelping room very young puppies should be given milk two or three times daily until they are old enough to pick at bones and food that is given to their dam then after they are weaned
012119_11765_000052 it is from this celebrated dog that schumacher's barry i traces his pedigree and from a union of this dog with a bitch at the hospice that sultan i was produced favorita i and toni i were bred from
012119_11765_000053 they may choose and never resent or object many of the noble qualities of the race are illustrated in the case of save a noted st bernard formerly owned in england of which a contributor to the american field recently wrote as follows
012119_11765_000054 is alert courageous faithful sagacious and his great size renders him an object of dread to wrongdoers few men would care to disturb property of which he had charge besides being an excellent guardian for children he is also an affectionate and patient companion for them he may not romp or run with them
012119_11765_000055 out of diana i and to these dogs and their litter brothers and sisters is as far back as any authentic st bernard pedigree can be traced herr schumacher of holligen switzerland is the man to whom we are indebted for the introduction of the breed into england and from thence into this country it was from his kennels
012119_11765_000056 boards are formations which indicate a newfoundland cross such as a saddle-back and a disproportionately long back hooks too much bent and spaces between the toes with upward growing hair there has been considerable controversy regarding the exact number on the scale of one hundred that each point should count
012119_11765_000057 and from the pyrenean mastiff the intelligence the exquisite sense of smell and at the same time faithfulness and sagacity of the other part have acquired in the space of five centuries so glorious a notoriety throughout europe
012119_11765_000058 the first saint bernard of which any authentic history exists is the now famous old barry this dog was descended from the pair returned to the monks after they're lost and he is reported to have saved the lives of forty-two persons in the mountains of switzerland
012119_11765_000059 a little raw meat chopped fine fed three or four times in the last week often prevents bitches from eating puppies though they may formerly have been in the habit of doing so a piece of old carpet placed on her regular bench is about the best bed for a bitch when whelping this can be thrown away after the whelping is over and replaced with a fresh piece
012119_11765_000060 according to the tradition of the holy fathers of the great st bernard their race descends from the crossing of a bitch a bulldog species of denmark and a mastiff shepherd's dog of the pyrenees the descendants of this crossing who have inherited from the danish dog its extraordinary size and bodily strength of the one part
012119_11765_000061 which i take liberty of reproducing here meantime acknowledging my obligations to mr shaw and his publishers messrs cassell co for the use of same the letter is as follows
012119_11765_000062 or with a bed of clean straw the bitch that has been kept in good condition neither too fat nor on the other hand too thin seldom has any difficulties in parturition great care should be exercised that no cold or any draught is permitted to penetrate into the kennel
012119_11765_000063 there has never been adopted a scale of this kind as point judging as it is termed is but seldom resorted to however the following scale is popular with many of the english judges of the st bernard as a matter of information we give it space
012119_11765_000064 yet it was not until a show held at cremorne in march eighteen sixty-three that a class was made for a st bernards prizes were won at this show by bates monk and stone's monk
012119_11765_000065 when the dogs arrive at the cabins of the refuge they enter them to see if there are any travelers seeking shelter there in which case they entice them to follow if they find any travelers who have succumbed to the cold the dogs try to revive them by imparting warmth
012119_11765_000066 they have sold many of them at round figures thus making their kennels more or less self supporting in view of the above stated facts the question arises how is it that some of the progeny of smooth coated have long coats those of your readers who have visited the mountain fastnesses of the alps where the winters last from september until may
012119_11765_000067 and it is to be hoped that in future the saint bernard exhibits at our shows may not present such a bewildering and unintelligible display of coat in both rough and smooth variety as we now often see mister k e
012119_11765_000068 that they well merit the name of a distinct race for themselves in winter the service of the male dogs and the females are employed or engaged only at the last extremity is regulated as follows
012119_11765_000069 rough coaled puppies were found in litters from smooth-coated parents such was the case long before the newfoundland made its appearance in switzerland the monks however had no use for long-haired puppies and hence gave them away to their friends and patrons since the breed has become so well known
012119_11765_000070 two dogs are made to go over the same road together so if one perishes it is replaced by another a young one who is instructed and trained by the surviving dog of which he is the pupil
012119_11765_000071 two dogs one old and one young travel over every morning the route on the italian side of the mountain towards aosta two more make the voyage on the swiss side towards martigny to a distance of about nine miles from the hospice they all just go to the last cabins of refuge that have been constructed for the benefit of travelers
012119_11765_000072 both having been imported from the hospice when puppies from this time on the breed grew in favor and popularity and gradually came to occupy the conspicuous place in which we now find it at our shows
012119_11765_000073 this grand dog is sincerely mourned by his late owner and his family as well by all the children of sheffield and many of their parents probably no other dog had so wide a popularity for his portrait first published in eighteen eighty-two afterward figured in almost every illustrated journal and the story of his life his strength
012119_11765_000074 one of our most prominent breeders recently discussed this subject in a most interesting letter to one of the sportsmen's journals he says many people believe that the short-haired and long-haired st bernard are two distinct breeds and that the latter is not so pure as the former
012119_11765_000075 he was admittedly the handsomest dog ever shown here his strength was such that he would carry his master with ease although he weighted fourteen stone and no two men could hold him with a chain or slip if anyone whom he knew called him yet he was so gentle that the smallest child could do anything with him
012119_11765_000076 he was bred by rev g a sneyd being by othman e six four two two hedwig he was born in march eighteen seventy-nine and he was the only survivor of a litter of fifteen it was on this account that he was called safe in color and markings
012119_11765_000077 and weighed at only one hundred and fifty pounds in his best condition his skull measurement was but twenty-two inches by comparing these measurements with those of the largest dogs of today we may obtain a good idea of the great improvement that has been made within comparatively few years not only in size but in type
012119_11765_000078 even when the snow has fallen during the night the dogs find their way surely and correctly and do not deviate from the beaten way a yard the marks of their feet leave a track which is easy for travelers to follow as far as the hospice
012119_11765_000079 this is no more the case in the saint bernard than in the collie the idea originates undoubtedly from the fact that the monks use smooth coats only it is not generally known that as far back as there is any history of the breed
012119_11765_000080 if we are to judge from the paintings of the famous dogs of eighteen and twenty years ago a few years later mr macdona imported into england thor afterward a champion and jura
012119_11765_000081 he was very fond of the company of ladies among whom he was known as gentleman save he was also passionately fond of children and delighted in their company for some years a cot has been maintained in the children's hospital at sheffield solely by money collected by save who always carried a small cask attached to his collar
012119_11765_000082 and where during the remaining four months it is cold or those who have traveled or lived in the northwest and know what snowstorms and blizzards are will readily understand that neither a pointer nor a setter
012119_11765_000083 the monks immediately set out well provided with means of recovery in eighteen twelve a terrible snowstorm took place and the aid of the monks and dogs was so constantly required that even the female dogs the most feeble animals were called into requisition and perished
012119_11765_000084 would be comfortable in either place out of doors in a stormy winter's day not only would they not be comfortable but in many instances it would be certain death to them and why because the pointer's coat would be no protection to him
012119_11765_000085 in licking their hands and face which not seldom produces the desired effect if these means are inefficient they return in all speed to the hospice where they know how to make themselves understood
012119_11765_000086 its resemblance was so remarkable in regard to external appearance and color of its hair that when i saw the dog for the first time i resolved to obtain it at whatever sacrifice
012119_11765_000087 first both the parents furnish their portion towards the production of the offspring but since the bitch nourishes it until birth and for a month or more after it is natural to draw the conclusion that the young will more closely resemble the dam than the sire
012119_11765_000088 neck set on high carried upright when the animal is animated otherwise horizontal and slightly downward the junction between head and neck is distinctly indicated the neck is very muscular and rounded at the side giving it an appearance of shortness clearly noticeable dewlaps but too great a development not desirable
012119_11765_000089 sister to plinlimmon which had recently been given to me and as though conscious of our impending parting midge who has become greatly attached to me lay at my feet from time to time casting upward such beseeching glances as only our affectionate dumb pets are capable of
012119_11765_000090 general character powerful tall upstanding with hard muscular development massive head and very intelligent expression in dogs with dark face markings the expression is more solemn but should never be sour
012119_11765_000091 at an international congress held in zurich for the purpose a standard of points was adopted which was shortly afterward approved by the saint bernard clubs of england and of america we giveth herewith in full standard of points the smooth of saint bernard
012236_11471_000000 we long for thoughts of intellectual kind and not to go bewildered to our beds with stuff and fustian taking up the mind and pins and needles running in our heads
012236_11471_000001 for oh the brain gets very dull and dry selling from morn till night for cash or credit or with a vacant face and vacant eye watching cheap prints that knight did never edit
012236_11471_000002 till sick with toil and lassitude extreme we often think when we are dull and vapoury the bliss of paradise was so supreme because that adam did not deal in drapery
012236_11471_000003 oppressed and discontented with our lot amongst the clamorous we take our station a host of ribbon men yet is there not one piece of irish in our agitation
012236_11471_000004 by tax or tithe our murmurs are not drawn we reverence the church but hang the cloth we love her ministers but curse the lawn we have alas too much to do with both
012236_11471_000005 we love the sex to serve them is a bliss we trust they find us civil never surly all that we hope of female friends is this that their last linen may be wanted early
012236_11471_000006 we do revere her majesty the queen we venerate our glorious constitution we joy king william's advent should have been and only want a counter revolution
012236_11471_000007 it's not lord russell and his final measure it's not lord melbourne's counsel to the throne it's not this bill or that gives us displeasure the measures we dislike are all our own
012236_11471_000008 the cash law the great western loves to name the tone our foreign policy pervading the corn laws none of these we care to blame our evils we refer to overtrading
012236_11471_000009 we wish of knowledge to lay in a stock and not remain in ignorance incurable to study shakespeare milton dryden locke and other fabrics that have proved so durable
012236_11471_000010 ah we can tell the miseries of men that serve the very cheapest shops in town till faint and weary they leave off at ten knocked up by ladies beating of them down but has not hamlet his opinion given
012236_11471_000011 o come then gentle ladies come in time o'erwhelm our counters and upload our shelves torment us all until the seventh chime but let us have the remnant to ourselves
012236_11471_000012 oh hamlet had a heart for drapers servants that custom is say custom after seven more honored in the breach than the observance
012236_12576_000000 then take up your task remember that you must marshall all your forces at one point and move in one direction if you would accomplish what your desires have painted
012236_12576_000001 and decision of character we admire a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it
012236_12576_000002 at such times is seen the triumph of those who have carefully trained all their faculties to a habit of prompt decision they seize the occasion and make the thought start into instant action they at once plan and perform resolve and execute
012236_12576_000003 and while it is the duty of all to strive to cultivate both yet such is the constitution of the human mind that it is apt to go to extremes and he who accustoms himself
012236_12576_000004 the multitude have looked upon them with wonder with reverent hands the world at large has crowned intellect with its richest honors
012236_12576_000005 we are often compelled to a choice of acquisitions for there are some things the position of rich is incompatible with the position of others and the sooner this truth is known and recognized the better the chances of success and happiness
012236_12576_000006 so does he whose attention is diffused through innumerable channels so that it can not gather in force on any one point the human mind in short resembles a burning glass whose rays are intense only as they are concentrated
012236_12576_000007 designs projected that are never begun and all for the want of a little courageous decision better far the silent tongue but the eloquent deed and the most decisive answer of all is doing there is nothing more to be admired than a manly firmness
012236_12576_000008 it is but a truism to say that there can be no success in life without decision of character even brains are secondary in importance to will
012236_12576_000009 augmenting its weight or altering its organization it is visible only by its effects and perceptible only by its operations unlike those of the warriors the triumphs of intellect derive all their luster
012236_12576_000010 and never to give up the hope that better days may come it is wonderful to see what miracles a resolute and unyielding will
012236_12576_000011 in the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their powers men often conquer difficulties because they think they can their confidence in themselves
012236_12576_000012 that one must have to render his intercourse with society pleasing to himself or agreeable to others let boys and girls be taught first what is necessary to prepare them for the common duties of life
012236_12576_000013 but once subdued we find a nest of honey in them peril is the very element in which power is developed don't rely upon your friends nor rely upon the name of your ancestor
012236_12576_000014 the most successful the men who have wielded power have not always been graduates brindley and stephenson did not learn to read and write until they were twenty years old yet the one gave england her railroads and the other her canals
012236_12576_000015 its pathway has been strewn with flowers its brow has worn the loftiest plume it has held the mightiest scepter of power and sat upon the proudest throne
012236_12576_000016 inspires confidence in others the man who makes every thing that conduces to happiness to depend upon himself and not upon other men on whose good or evil actions
012236_12576_000017 as the glass burns only when its rays are converged to a focal point so the former illumes the world of science literature or business only when it is directed to a solitary object
012236_12576_000018 reason like the magnetic influence imparted to iron may be said to give to matter properties and powers which it did not possess before but without extending its bulk
012236_12576_000019 the well-developed tree is not one simply well rooted nor with giant branches nor resplendent with rich foliage but all of these together
012236_12576_000020 every shower that sweeps over the surface of the country tends to bring the hills and the mountains to the level of the plains nature has but one lesson on this subject and that is persevere
012236_12576_000021 if you mark the perfect man you must not look for him in the gymnasium the university or the church exclusively but you should look for the healthful mind in the healthful body with a virtuous heart the being in whom you find this union is the only one worthy to be called
012236_12576_000022 too about the successes of forward and impudent men while men of retiring worth are overlooked but it usually happens that those forward men have that valuable quality of promptness and activity without which
012236_12576_000023 the great inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world not from universities but from hovels not as clad in silks and decked with honors but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil
012236_12576_000024 there are occasions when caution and delay are necessary when to act without long and careful deliberation would be madness but when the way is clear when there is no doubt as to what
012236_12576_000025 to deep prying into nature's secrets to exploring the hidden mysteries of the past is too apt to forget the practical details of everyday life to pass them by with disgust as altogether beneath his attention this is an error
012236_12576_000026 much material good must be resigned if we would attain the highest degree of moral excellence and many spiritual joys must be foregone if we resolve at all risks to win great material advantages
012236_12576_000027 the lofty mountains are wearing down by slow degrees the ocean is gradually but surely filling up by deposits from its thousand rivers and by the labors of a little insect so small as to be almost invisible to the naked eye
012236_12576_000028 irresolute men seek to lay their want of success at the door of the public well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market provided it exerts itself but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought after there is a good deal of cant
012236_12576_000029 to bear up against the storm to have recourse to those advantages which in the worst of times are always left to integrity and virtue
012236_12576_000030 thousands have spent the prime of life in the vain hope of help from those whom they called friends and many thousands have starved because they had a rich father rely upon the good name which is made by your own exertions
012236_12576_000031 stupendous works of nature and art which proclaim in no uncertain tones the triumph of perseverance all the performances of human art
012236_12576_000032 in the prosecution of duties or tasks but with all that has been urged in favor of decision and dispatch we would not be understood as advising undue haste
012236_12576_000033 he can endear himself to the community by kindly acts to the distressed as well as completely mastering in all its bearings the one great work which he has taken upon himself as his life's work
012236_12576_000034 hundreds of men go to their graves in obscurity who have remained obscure only because they lacked the pluck to make the first effort and who could they only have resolved to begin would have astonished the world by their achievements and successes
012236_12576_000035 even in cases where deliberation and caution are necessary decision demands that the mind acts quickly in a word decision finds us engaged in a life-battle
012236_12576_000036 if a person were to compare the result of one man's work with the general design and last result he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion
012236_12576_000037 an inward principle of self-support help yourself and heaven will help you should be the motto of every man who would make himself useful in the world or carve his way to riches and honor it is an old saying he who has lost confidence can lose nothing more
012236_12576_000038 can achieve before its irresistible energy the most formidable obstacles become as cobweb barriers in the path difficulties the terrors of which cause the irresolute to sink back with dismay
012236_12576_000039 how many there are who thinking of the immense amount of work lying between them and the object of their desires are almost ready to give up in despair
012236_12576_000040 he that sets out on the journey of life with a profound knowledge of books but with a shallow knowledge of men with much of the sense of others but with little of his own
012236_12576_000041 it's a common saying that the man of practical ability far surpasses the theorist just what is meant by practical ability is perhaps hard to explain it is more easy to tell what it is not than what it is
012236_12576_000042 a man who sees limitedly and clearly is both more sure of himself and is more direct in dealing with circumstances and with men than is a man who has a large horizon of thought whose many-sided capacity embraces an immense extent of objects
012236_12576_000043 but do they not when they view the work thus in mass forget that there is time enough if only rightly improved to suffice for each effort one step after another
012236_12576_000044 so in every society the man of intelligence must direct and govern the man of ignorance there is no exception to this law it is the natural sequence of the dominion of mind over matter
012236_12576_000045 the man who dares not follow his own independent judgment but runs perpetually to others for advice becomes at last a moral weakling and an intellectual dwarf such a man has not self within him and believes in no self
012236_12576_000046 to take a stand by the side of those persons who have grown up in the full blaze of a collegiate education learn thoroughly what you learn
012236_12576_000047 is to ask for impossibilities if you start for success you must expect to pay its price it cannot be won by feeble halfway efforts neither is it to be acquired because sought for in a dozen different directions
012236_12576_000048 bequeathes the trophies and titles of the conqueror are on the quick march to oblivion and amid that desolation where they were planted will decay as the mind must govern the hand
012236_12576_000049 reason may continue to widen its powers and deepen its sanctities there the affections may grow in beauty and fervor through innumerable ages mind may expand and intensify through eternity
012236_12576_000050 it demands that you bring to your chosen profession or calling energy industry and above all that singleness of purpose which is willing to devote the energies of a life-time to its accomplishment mere wishing and sighing brings it not
012236_12576_000051 if the victory is ours success and fortune wait upon us if we are overthrown want and misery stare us in the face it is well to make our movements only with caution but when we see a chance we must at once improve it or it is gone
012236_12576_000052 and none the less reprehensible on that account than is the conduct of those who become so engrossed with the practical affairs of their calling or profession as to forget that they have a higher nature and sink the man in the pursuit of their ambitious dreams
012236_12576_000053 then all that can be gained from fields of classic lore or works of polite erudition is of the utmost value in this enlightened age ignorance is a voluntary misfortune
012236_12576_000054 dominion so strong that for a time it can make flesh and nerves impregnable and string the sinews like steel so that the weak become strong
012236_12576_000055 contented mind to indulge in sensual gratifications and yet demand health strength and vigor to live for self and yet to look for the joys that spring from a virtuous and self denying life
012236_12576_000056 for all who will drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge by the proper improvement of time the mechanic's apprentice may lay in a store of information that will enable him
012236_12576_000057 not from the evil they have produced but from the good her successes and her conquests are the common property of the world and succeeding ages will be the watchful guardians of the rich legacies she
012236_12576_000058 from the man of lofty determination only a smile the whole history of our race all nature indeed teems with examples to show what wonders may be accomplished by resolute perseverance and patient toil
012236_12576_000059 it recognizes the fact that life is action that mere thoughts and schemes will avail nothing unless subsequently wrought out in action it is an indescribable quality which results from a union of worldly knowledge with shrewdness and tact
012236_12576_000060 be it ever so little and you may speak of it with confidence a few well defined facts and ideas are worth a whole library of uncertain knowledge we are frequently placed in position where we can learn with scarcely an effort on our part
012236_12576_000061 yet these petty operations incessantly continued in time surmount the greatest difficulties mountains are elevated and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings
012236_12576_000062 occasions also arise when we must rouse our forces on an instant's warning and to make movements for which we have no time to calculate the chances then is seen the triumph of the decisive ready man
012236_12576_000063 at which we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance it is by this this the quarry becomes a pyramid
012236_12576_000064 just as the somnambulist treads with safety where the wide-awake man could not hope to follow practical men cut the knots which they can not untie and overleaping all preliminaries come at once to a conclusion
012236_12576_000065 men of theoretical knowledge on the other hand are tempted to waste time in comparing and meditating when they should be up and doing practical knowledge will not always of itself
012236_12576_000066 will find himself completely at a loss on occasions of common and constant recurrence speculative ability is one thing and practical ability is another
012236_12576_000067 education is a work of progress it begins in life but has no end death does not terminate it we learn the elements of things below above we will study their essence we progress only by efforts
012236_12576_000068 but goes as a suppliant to others and entreats of them one after another to lend him theirs he is in fact a mere element of a human being
012236_12576_000069 it is by this the coliseum of rome was built and this it was that inclosed in adamant the chinese empire one man's individual exertion seems to go for nothing
012236_12576_000070 the intellect is but the half of a man the will is the driving wheel the spring of motor power a vacillating man no matter what his abilities is invariably pushed aside in the race of life by one of determined will
012236_12576_000071 it expresses the sum total of human duty nor is it confined to the present period of life for aught we know education may be continued in heaven
012236_12576_000072 it is he who resolves to succeed and at every fresh rebuff begins resolutely again that reaches the goal the shores of fortune are covered with the stranded wrecks of men of brilliant abilities
012236_12576_000073 to strive for a high personal position and yet expect to have all the delights of leisure to labor for vast riches and yet to ask for freedom from anxiety and care and all the happiness which flows from a
012236_12576_000074 but who have wanted courage faith and decision and have therefore perished in sight of more resolute but less capable adventurers who succeeded in making port
012236_12576_000075 and shining upon it with a serene and sober light is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters
012236_12576_000076 once the very alphabet of that language which they have wielded with such magic effect was unknown to them they toiled long to learn it
012236_12576_000077 his own doings are compelled to hinge has adopted the very best plan for living happily this is the man of moderation the possessor of manly character and wisdom
012278_12446_000000 and at any rate girls do talk in that way sometimes not really meaning it i thought it was mere youngness on our part and theory i don't know now whether i quite approve of your having been told of this new departure
012278_12446_000001 and then there was a pause and then the chime rolled out over the storm stained city
012278_12446_000002 and she raised her head to listen one two three four the round notes fell
012278_12446_000003 when all at once without hearing anything she became conscious of a presence near her and looking up she was startled to see evadne herself
012278_12446_000004 mrs orton beg smiled at her affectionately but before she could speak the door opened once more and the servant announced lord dawne
012278_12446_000005 and there entered a grave distinguished looking man between thirty and forty years of age apparently with black hair and deep blue eyes at once penetrating and winning in expression misses ortonbeg greeted him with pleasure
012278_12446_000006 i must have a double said miss winstanley lightly but it was you the child insisted i saw you quite well flowers and all
012278_12446_000007 the governess was wearing some scarlet geranium you know what they say if people are seen like that where they have never been in the body she said jokingly
012278_12446_000008 watching the newly lighted fire burn up and thinking she was thinking of evadne chiefly wondering why she had had no news of her
012278_12446_000009 to keep it filled for ever with holy and beautiful thoughts when i am alone i listen for the chime and when i have repeated it to myself slowly
012278_12446_000010 mrs beale with pleasure also but with more ceremony edith quite simply and naturally and then she sat down he was in riding dress with his whip and hat in his hand this is an unexpected pleasure i did not know you were at morne
012278_12446_000011 i shall decline to live with him evadne repeated with emphasis mrs orton beg slowly resumed her reclining position acting as one does who has heard the worst and realizes that there is nothing to be done but to recover from the shock
012278_12446_000012 he watching over israel slumbers not nor sleeps my heart swells i leave all that is inexplicable to him and thank him for the love and the hope with which he feeds my heart and keeps it from hardening
012278_12446_000013 but there is often an element of surprise in the confirmation of our shrewdest suspicions and now she sat upon leant forward and looked at her niece aghast what she demanded
012278_12446_000014 i thought you loved him she ventured after a prolonged pause yes so did i evadne answered frowning
012278_12446_000015 why her sister elizabeth did not write and tell her all about the wedding and she was just on the verge of anxiety in that state when various possibilities of trouble that might have occurred to account for delays begin to present themselves to the mind
012278_12446_000016 her face was pale but her eyes were bright and the pupils were dilated i have come to claim your hospitality auntie she pursued
012278_12446_000017 my dear child she gasped what has happened why are you here nothing has happened auntie don't be alarmed evadne answered
012278_12446_000018 her large dark luminous eyes and delicate refined features all set in a wistful sadness there was a singular likeness between herself and evadne in some things
012278_12446_000019 they put me in my place every time i see them the last time we had a serious talk together i noticed that diavolo was thinking deeply
012278_12446_000020 my appetite is delicate it requires to be tempted and a husband of that kind a moral leper she broke off with a gesture spreading her hands palms outward as if she would fain put some horrid idea far from her
012278_12446_000021 my sister flatters herself that i have some influence with the children and as it is quite certain that nobody else has i am careful not to dispel the illusion it is a comfort to her but the twins will not allow me to deceive myself upon that head
012278_12446_000022 a thing so slight that after reading the letter as we drove to the station even so soon i could see him as he is i noticed that although his face is handsome the expression of it is not noble at all
012278_12446_000023 i am here because i have been a fool she spoke quietly but with concentrated bitterness and then sat down and began to take off her gloves with that exaggerated show of composure which is a sign in some people of suppressed emotion
012278_12446_000024 to ask you for shelter from the world for a few days because i have been a fool may i stay surely dear child
012278_12446_000025 said mrs orton beg is claudia with you no i have only come for a few days lord dawne replied i came to see adeline specially
012278_12446_000026 but they don't return from town till tomorrow they have all been assisting at the marriage of a niece of yours i hear and the heavenly twins have been prolonging the festivities on their own account adeline wrote to me in despair
012278_12446_000027 besides marrying a man like that allowing him an assured position in society is countenancing vice and she glanced round apprehensively then added in a fearful whisper helping to spread it
012278_12446_000028 but i was mistaken it was a mere affair of the senses to be put off by the first circumstance calculated to cause a revulsion of feeling by lowering him in my estimation
012278_12446_000029 she shuddered as at the sight of something repulsive you see she explained my taste is cultivated to so fine an extent i require something extremely well-flavoured for the dish which is to be the pice de resistance of my life feast
012278_12446_000030 and i have come to see if i can be of any use my sister he added turning to mrs beale with his bright almost boyish smile which was like his nephew diavolo's and made them both irresistible
012278_12446_000031 prepared to do her best to dissuade her but then again she relapsed giving in to a doubt of her own capacity to advise in such an emergency accompanied by a sudden and involuntary feeling of respect for evadne's principles however peculiar and unprecedented they might be
012278_12446_000032 no not very much i assured him why well i was pretty certain you didn't he replied and you see i do so i was just thinking couldn't you remain as you are when grandpa dies
012278_12446_000033 a vague haunting family likeness which continually obtruded itself but could not be defined it had been more distinct when evadne was a child and would doubtless have grown greater had she lived with her aunt
012278_12446_000034 and hoped for a moment that it was about what i was saying but that apparently had not interested him at all for i had the curiosity to ask just to see if i had perchance made any impression
012278_12446_000035 they say it is a sign that the person is going to die in the afternoon mrs beale continued lowering her voice and glancing round involuntarily and in the momentary pause the rush of the gale without sounded obtrusively
012278_12446_000036 i fell in love and liked the sensation and gave myself up to it unreservedly certainly i was a fool there is no other word for it
012278_12446_000037 and discovered that he had something else in his mind the whole time i was just wondering he answered if you care much about being duke of morningquest
012278_12446_000038 but the very different mental attitude which she gradually acquired had melted the resemblance as it were so that at nineteen although her slender figure and air and carriage continually recalled mrs orton beg who was then in her thirty-fifth year
012278_12446_000039 and let me walk into the title then i'd give angelica the hamilton house property and it would be very jolly for all of us but look here
012278_12446_000040 the expression of her face was so different that they were really less alike than they had been when evadne was four years younger evadne's disposition it must be remembered was essentially swift to act
012278_12446_000041 i thank him too she went on hoarsely for the terrible moments when i feel my loss afresh those early morning moments
012278_12446_000042 misses ortonbeg knew in her head that the reason and right were on evadne's side but she felt in her heart the full force of the custom and prejudice that would be against her
012278_12446_000043 she would a as human being have her periods of strong feeling but that was merely a physical condition in no way affecting her character and the only healthy minded happy state for her was the one in which thought instantly translated itself into action
012278_12446_000044 and for the strength of character which had enabled her so far to act upon them you must obey your own conscience evadne was what she found herself saying at last i will help you to do that i would rather not influence you you may be right i cannot be sure and
012278_12446_000045 and here again the family likeness between aunt and niece was curiously apparent both masked their agitation because both by temperament were shy and ashamed to show strong feeling evadne looked into the fire for a little
012278_12446_000046 and shrank appalled by the thought of what the cruel struggle to come must be if evadne persisted in her determination in view of this she sat up in her chair once more energetically
012278_12446_000047 she added indicating the letter i do said evadne decidedly i would stop the imposition approved of custom convinced at by parents made possible by the state of ignorance in which we are carefully kept
012278_12446_000048 but are you married evadne mrs orton beg asked in a voice rendered unnatural by the rapid beating of her heart let me tell you auntie all about it
012278_12446_000049 and she cherished the certainty of one day assuming a wondrous form and entering upon a new life as vivid and varied and as real as this but far more perfect
012278_12446_000050 with something of hope whereon the weary mind might repose
012278_12446_000051 mournful melodious yet glad too in the strength of its solemn assurance filling the desolate regions of sorrow and silence
012278_12446_000052 that they will have the best of everything and if the best wives are only to be obtained by being worthy of them they will strive to become so as it is however why should they
012278_12446_000053 and then diavolo lost his temper and pulled her hair and she got hold of his and dragged him out of the room by his my presence of course counted for nothing and the next i saw of them they were in their ponies in a secluded grassy glade of the forest
012278_12446_000054 and yet i don't agree with you for i know if i could have my husband back with me i would welcome him even if he were a leper
012278_12446_000055 diavolo gallantly assured her bowing in the most courtly way but angelica said with more force than refinement that that was all rot
012278_12446_000056 evadne compressed her lips in steady disapproval i should think only of his future i should forgive the past that is the mistake you good women all make said evadne you set a detestably bad example
012278_12446_000057 angelica broke in in her energetic way if you're going to be a duke i won't be left plain miss hamilton wells you couldn't be plain miss anything
012278_12446_000058 with mrs orton beg it was different her spiritual nature predominated her habits of mind were dreamy she lived for life to come entirely and held herself in constant communion with another world
012278_12446_000059 compared to the disabilities which being a girl imposes upon her but she means to get over them all by hook which she explains as being the proper development of her muscles and physique generally
012278_12446_000060 her friends were chiefly of her own way of thinking but her faith was so profound and the charm of her conversation so entrancing
012278_12446_000061 evadne answered hoarsely she drew her chair a little closer to the fire and spread her hands out to the blaze there was no other light in the room by this time the wind without howled dismally still
012278_12446_000062 it seemed to be listening to be waiting and evadne waited and listened too raising her head there was a perceptible momentary pause then came the chime full round
012278_12446_000063 so long as women like you will forgive anything men will do anything you have it in your power to set up a high standard of excellence for men to reach in order to have the privilege of associating with you there is this quality in men
012278_12446_000064 that the hardest headed materialists were apt to feel strange delicious thrills in her presence forebodings of possibilities beyond the test of reason and knowledge
012278_12446_000065 tilting at each other with long pole of dukedom angelica says she means to beat demosthenes hollow i use her own phraseology to give character to the quotation that delivering orations with a natural inclination to stammering was nothing to get over
012278_12446_000066 she felt it near her she said she believed that its inhabitants visit the earth and take cognizance of all we do and suffer
012278_12446_000067 she answered but i am only now beginning to understand she added i suppose moral axioms are always the outcome of pained reflection
012278_12446_000068 knowledge cries to us in vain as a rule before experience has taken the sharp edge off our egotism by experience i mean the addition of some personal feeling to our knowledge
012278_12446_000069 oh that was very simple lord dawne rejoined diavolo dressed in velvet was caught and taken up by a policeman for recklessly driving a hansom in oxford street angelica being inside the same disguised in something of her mother's
012278_12446_000070 when the last reverberation of the last note had melted out of hearing evadne sighed
012278_12446_000071 but when i went to change my dress after the ceremony i found this letter it was intended you see to reach me some days before it did but unfortunately it was addressed to fraylingay and time was lost in forwarding it
012278_12446_000072 or mere passive perception and the feeling which emanated from mrs orton beg is one that is especially contagious for in the first place the beauty of goodness appeals pleasurably to the most depraved
012278_12446_000073 with each note as it floated forth filling the silent spaces and then she awoke with a start to thought once more and knew that she had been a long long time alone she was going to ring but at that moment a servant entered and announced
012278_12446_000074 and they would return time after time to dispute her conclusions and argue themselves out of the impression she had produced but only to relapse into their former state of blissful sensation so soon as they once more found themselves within range of her influence
012278_12446_000075 i don't understand you in the least evadne mrs orton beg replied your husband was a good man evadne answered indirectly
012278_12446_000076 in the afternoon of that same day she went out alone for a walk and did not return and they became alarmed at last and sent some men to search for her when the storm was at its height and they found her lying across a stile she had been killed by the branch of a tree falling on her
012278_12446_000077 i wonder it was angelica who went inside mrs orton beg exclaimed well that was what her mother said lord dawne replied and both her parents seem to think
012278_12446_000078 the matter was not nearly so bad as it might have been in consequence mister hamilton wells had to pay a fine for the furious driving and use all his influence with the press to keep the thing out of the papers but where did the children get the hansom
012278_12446_000079 which every sentient being must perceive with emotions that vary from extreme repugnance to positive pleasure through diverse intermediate strata of lively interest
012278_12446_000080 and by crook which she defines as circumventing the slave drivers of her sex a task which she seems to think can easily be accomplished by finessing and what was last thing mrs orton beg inquired smiling indulgently
012278_12446_000081 then she straightened herself as if collecting her energy and began to speak yes i am married she said
012278_12446_000082 again mrs orton beg felt herself checked where did you hear all this evadne she asked i never heard it i read and i thought
012278_12446_000083 the imposition upon a girl's innocence and inexperience of a disreputable man for a husband mrs orton beg was startled by this bold assertion which was so unprecedented in her experience that for a moment she could not utter a word
012278_12446_000084 opinions are germs in the moral atmosphere which fasten themselves upon us if we are predisposed to entertain them but some states of feeling are a perfume
012278_12446_000085 she handed it to her aunt who raised her eyebrows when she saw the writing as if she recognized it hastily drew the letter from its envelope and held it so that the blaze fell upon it while she read
012278_12446_000086 when the bright sunshine and beauty of all things only to make my own barren life look all the more bare in its loneliness when my soul struggles to free itself from the shackles of the flesh
012278_12446_000087 know mrs orton beg answered with interest what was it well you know the dean's brother has a large family of daughters
012278_12446_000088 evadne asked at last caressingly i do not like to hear you talk so evadne every word you say seems to banish something something from this room something from my life to which i cling
012278_12446_000089 did you feel the storm much here he asked my trees have suffered a great deal i am sorry to say ah that reminds me mrs beale began a very strange and solemn thing happened on the day of the storm have you heard of it olive
012278_12446_000090 he drove off full tilt oh dear poor lady adeline mrs beale exclaimed lord dawne smiled again and changed the subject
012278_12446_000091 i read it before i went downstairs and at first i could not think what to do so we drove off together but on the way to the station it suddenly flashed upon me that the proper thing to do would be to go at once and hear all that there was to tell
012278_12446_000092 and drove off to the general post office to telegraph to my people but why didn't you go home for several reasons evadne answered
012339_12645_000000 they are common on the coast waters south of the delaware bay and are used chiefly for hunting boats their cheapness handiness and roominess rendering them useful to the sportsman
012339_12645_000001 as this kind of keel was appropriately styled many boats of this pattern were soon afloat most of them highly successful at home and abroad and carrying a surprising spread of canvas
012339_12645_000002 this new boat completed in the spring of eighteen fifty-one and named america was schooner-rigged but had raking masts no topsails except a small main gaff and only one jib whose foot was laced to a boom
012339_12645_000003 which was promptly defeated by the magic in eighteen seventy six five years later another canadian appeared the atalanta differing from previous contestants in being a single-masted center board yacht
012339_12645_000004 a number are powerful sea-going sloops while of smaller craft there is an abundance of almost every type although the new york catboat and the flat-bottomed sharpie of long island sound are seldom met with and seem not to be in favor
012339_12645_000005 as this contest was between single representative yachts tried in five races and in all sorts of weather it was a fair and conclusive measure of comparative qualities the next yacht to come after the international cup was the canadian countess of dufferin
012339_12645_000006 for whether he sail alone or with the help of his friends or that of a hired man to run his boat he is always the master of his vessel which is seldom the case with the proprietor of the big boat
012339_12645_000007 from the beaches of the atlantic seaboard and from the borders of the island lakes he can be seen all summer long sailing about in his little vessel and enjoying in all its fullness the excitement and delight of the most noble and health-giving sport
012339_12645_000008 a true buckeye is a double-ender but some large ones have been built with an overhang stern which destroys the ideal and creates a new kind of craft
012339_12645_000009 the next year however another challenge was received and the british keel yacht livonia appeared and was defeated by the american keel schooner sappho which under a new rule had won her right to defend the cup by first beating in preparatory ocean races all other rivals for the honor
012339_12645_000010 at the other extreme the havana yacht club has american members who take their boats to the west indies every winter bermuda is another favorite resort
012339_12645_000011 but her rigging and finish were so bad that her excellent model could not save her from defeat in eighteen eighty-one at the hands of the elegant iron sloop mischief which had been built especially for the race and had won her foremost place through severe trial race as before
012339_12645_000012 in eighteen twelve a yacht club was founded at cowes in the isle of wight it received a new impetus and became the royal yacht club in eighteen seventeen the prince regent having joined it
012339_12645_000013 while the first yacht-club was not formed until seventeen twenty at cork in ireland even then a century elapsed before yachting as a sport attracted much attention even among the british famous for their love of the sea
012339_12645_000014 and the scene of lively races with a local narrow sort of craft called a flyer which will beat almost anything if only it can be kept right side up
012339_12645_000015 on the pacific coast wherever there is a bay that will afford a harbor and a town that will support people the yacht is used as a vehicle of pleasure many of the san francisco boats are large schooners
012339_12645_000016 the year eighteen ninety three brought another challenge for the cup in the person of lord dunraven sailing the yacht valkyrie but he was met by a new well-proved herreshoff fin keel the vigilant built of a new alloytobin bronze and handsomely defeated
012339_12645_000017 who gives to the sport its wide popularity and makes yachting so universally loved by men who are fond of aquatic pleasuring the small yachter is everywhere upon the waters from the coast of the maine from the shores of the harbor of the golden gate
012339_12645_000018 in great britain where yachting as we now understand it arose it was not until about sixteen fifty the traces between pleasure craft began to be sailed on the thames and in the quiet waters about the isle of wight
012339_12645_000019 with a pluck and energy that mark the true lover of the sea and a tact and skill that bespeak the real sailor he handles his little craft in fair weather and in foul in a manner that leaves no room for doubt as to its fitness for the work which he is doing
012339_12645_000020 the latter meaning alone is now kept in view by the word which is properly applied to anything designed and used for pleasure sailing whether moved by sails steam or electricity
012339_12645_000021 such was the style of the day but later she was changed in rig so as to carry far more and bigger sails more like those of a modern schooner-yacht the moment she arrived in cowes in the early summer of eighteen fifty one her superiority in speed was conceded
012339_12645_000022 with high trunk cabin large open cockpit ballast all inside and of iron or even slag and stone and a heavy and clumsy wooden construction
012339_12645_000023 was of course a rowboat with a sail from the primitive sprit sail pleasure boat comes the ever present and universally favored center board catboat a type of yacht which for speed handiness and unsafeness has never been surpassed
012339_12645_000024 and is in reality a yachtsman under all circumstances at all times and in all weathers he must be cool-headed and calm in times of peril affable and courteous on all social occasions and generous and prompt to respond to all calls upon his courage in brief a gentleman
012339_12645_000025 some practical sailor whittled out a model according to his ideas and the builder followed it systematic designing was unknown and one type of yacht was in general use the wide shoal center board craft
012339_12645_000026 who about eighteen seventy-seven called into question the merits of the american center board sloop and pointed out the opposing qualities of the british cutter her non-capsizability due to the use of lead ballast outside of the hull
012339_12645_000027 had acquired a skill in building and rigging ships that astonished the world by their speed and weatherly qualities it was natural that these ideas should influence pleasure craft on this side of the water as great britain's long sea struggles had influenced its sailors
012339_12645_000028 faulty in every way as this type has since been proved in the absence of any different standard it was considered perfect and open doubts were expressed of the patriotism if not the sanity of the few american yachtsmen
012339_12645_000029 by this time however there was peace on the north atlantic and many a good seaman was free to turn his attention to enjoying and improving the tools of his profession
012339_12645_000030 the most important and numerous yachting interest of the country however as would be expected is along the northeastern seaboard where measured by numbers and the investment in boats wharves clubhouses and equipment generally it surpasses any other district in the world
012339_12645_000031 but all sorts of cruising boats were matched against one another classified by a tonnage rule with no allowances for size or any of the systems by which contestants are now classified and equalized
012339_12645_000032 keel catboats are also built but the typical american cat is the center board boat of light draft big beam and huge sail the two objectionable points about boats of this class are their capsizability and their bad habit of yawing when sailing before the wind
012339_12645_000033 and in eighteen thirty-three was again recognized by king william iii at the royal yacht squadron the designation it bears today it carried on races or regattas as they soon came to be called borrowing from the italians a term descriptive of the old venetian gondola races
012339_12645_000034 pacific yachters appreciate the good points of the yawl for the squalls which blow over the waters of the west coast are sudden and severe and no rig meets these conditions of weather so well as does the yawl
012339_12645_000035 up to this time as mr w p stephens tells us in the century for august eighteen ninety three when many of the portraits of these races have been taken no pleasure boats had been built except after the rule of thumb
012339_12645_000036 the straight sheer and higher free board with quite a sharply though short overhang suggested the hull of the cutter and though quite wide nearly twenty feet on sixty-one feet water line she drew nearly six feet
012339_12645_000037 and bearing good fruit a year later in the launching of the mischief an american center board sloop but modified in accordance with the new theories the plumb stem
012339_12645_000038 in design they are like the catboats the only difference being in their rig these two boats the center board cat and the jib and mainsail sloop are what yachters call sandbaggers
012339_12645_000039 yet the cat is the handiest light weather boat made it is very fast quick in stay and simple in rig but it can never become a first class seaworthy type of yacht it belongs among the fair weather pleasure boats
012339_12645_000040 from the center board catboat grew the jib and mainsail sloop a type of yacht which has always been noted for its great speed and general unhandiness small yachts of this kind are always racers and the interest in racing is sufficient to keep them in the lists of popular boats
012339_12645_000041 and to lead to those international tests of speed that nowadays excite so widespread and intense an interest the great preponderance in numbers and value of pleasure vessels in the united states
012339_12645_000042 and in the number of clubs and club members is due not only to our large population and long coastline but to the great extent of inland waters furnished by our rivers and interior lakes
012339_12645_000043 a few years ago the sailing public was surprised by the appearance upon the waters of a spider-like contrivance which its friends said was a
012339_12645_000044 the following season the vigilant went to england and found herself equally overmatched by the britannia owned by the prince of wales while valkyrie ii was wrecked
012339_12645_000045 and no british captain would consent to meet her but finally a match was extemporized open to all nations for which a prize was offered in the form of a cup presented by the royal yacht squadron not by the queen as usually said
012339_12645_000046 and when in eighteen forty-four the new york yacht club was founded the conditions were favorable for beginning that home development of yachting as a sport which was soon to place the americans and canadians among the leading yachting peoples of the world
012339_12645_000047 passing the sandbaggers the next popular and most universally used yacht is the ballasted sloop a sloop may be a center board boat or a keel boat or a combination of both she has only one mast and carries a topmast
012339_12645_000048 her sails are many and like the cutter she is permitted to carry clouds of canvas in a race technically speaking a cutter differs from a sloop only in one point as the terms sloop and cutter really apply to the rig of the yacht
012339_12645_000049 one of the results of this controversy was the sending to this country from scotland of a little ten-ton racing cutter the madge purely to show that capabilities lay in a deep narrow lead keeled craft with the typical cutter rig
012339_12645_000050 and to the prevalence of bays or protected lagoons such as narragansett bay the great south bay of long island new york harbor delaware and chesapeake bays and the long series of sounds that border the southern atlantic coast from barnegat to biscayne
012339_12645_000051 then the question arose what should be done to meet them the british cutters differed from those previously met in that they were built for racing not for general use were racing machines instead of cruising yachts
012339_12645_000052 that is to say their ballast consists of bag of sand which are shifted to windward with every tack and thus serve to keep the yachts right side up a boat ballasted in this manner can carry more sail than rightly belongs on her sticks
012339_12645_000053 was suggested by the low broad almost flat-bottomed sloop employed to steal over the shallows of the hudson and the sound vessels depending upon beam rather than on ballast for stability and imitated by many of our coasters which are so stiff
012339_12645_000054 the only american able to beat her was the shadow a famous herreshoff sloop of unusual depth and she did it but once nevertheless the controversy was not decided in the united states and the britishers thought it worthwhile to try to give us another lesson
012339_12645_000055 to meet this a scientific designer of marine vessels mr a cary smith of new york was called upon to produce a moderately deep center board iron sloop yacht on the lines of the mischief but much larger and he produced the priscilla
012339_12645_000056 the cutter has a sail set from her stem to her masthead the sloop has not this sail is called a forestay sail and its presence marks the cutter rig
012339_12645_000057 one of that family of remarkable inventors who had already devised the first practical screw steamer and afterwards created the monitor her model as we learn from an excellent article in the century for july eighteen eighty-two by samuel g w benjamin
012339_12645_000058 the great lakes are bordered by yacht clubs on both sides and furnish space and weather for quite as serious work as tries the skill of ocean navigators while a hundred smaller lakes make fine pleasure waters and excellent training-grounds for fresh-water sailors
012339_12645_000059 though the first regatta in america was sailed in eighteen forty five little over half a century ago the evolution of american yachts began with the building of the sloop maria by robert l stevens
012339_12645_000060 but she cannot be very safe or comfortable her place in the regatta it is not beyond the truth to assert that the sandbaggers constitute probably two fifths of the total of small yachts
012339_12645_000061 that they sometimes make outside voyages without either cargo or ballast but the maria had a long sharp hollowed bow whence she expanded aft with little taper at the stern so that her deck plan was that of an elongated flat iron
012339_12645_000062 they will never cease to be popular for the reason that speed and sport are synonymous terms with a great many yachters and no one can deny that these boats like brother jasper's sun do move
012339_12645_000063 even with her sloop rig she was a marked departure from the older boats of her class especially as she was built of iron in place of wood and consequently carried her ballast all lead at a very low point
012339_12645_000064 fifteen yachts responded but none showed what it could do for there was little wind and the cup was awarded to the america more in general acknowledgment of its excellence than because of any great performance there
012339_12645_000065 the principal novelty about her however was the use of two center boards a center board is a plate of wood or metal suspended usually by a corner pivot within a sheath or box in the waist which can be let down through the keel into the water so as to form an adjustable keel
012339_12645_000066 the term cutter however is usually applied to the long narrow deep keeled vessel and has in common parlance grown to mean a boat of that type it is in that sense that it is general understood
012339_12645_000067 and the rig was essentially that of the cutter rather than of the sloop a struggle decided that she was better than the priscilla and in the cup races in september she proved herself better than the famous english cutter genesta
012339_12645_000068 but while she was building there was quietly begun another yacht the puritan owned and built in boston from designs by an almost unheard of architect mr edward burgess who previously to this performance had been renowned only as a student of insects
012339_12645_000069 the average yachting man if he be of that stuff of which good seamen are made soon finds his chief delight in being master of his own vessel he likes to feel that it is his skill his prowess his intellect that rule the ship in which he sails
012339_12645_000070 this new claimant for yachting favor was like the raft of the south sea islanders only in name in fact it was not a catamaran at all but a new device for racing over the water by means of sails
012339_12645_000071 in earliest times a mat was hung over the side later this was replaced by the leeboard apparently a dutch invention which may still be seen on the canal barges in holland and which was a feature of the pirogues or periaugers shallow double-ended sailing canoes
012339_12645_000072 it is the most convenient form of a very old device for preventing a boat's drift to leeward or tendency to capsize under the pressure of the wind
012339_12645_000073 it is worthy of notice that nearly all yachters who cruise about in summer and especially those who are fond of speedy boats use either sloops or cutters and it is remarkable to see how much comfort can be found in boats of these types even when quite small
012339_12645_000074 she easily beat the thistle and the discouraged foreigners rested for some years before trying again to wrest from us the coveted trophy in eighteen ninety-one however there came to new york from the yards of the herreshoff brothers
012339_12645_000075 and in a match on the open sea she beat the maria easily showing the superiority of the deep keeled model for windy weather profiting by these experiences and widely gathered information a new designer essayed the task of making a still better yacht
012339_12645_000076 naturally with men of moderate means who love the water these small single handers have become very popular some of them are not over sixteen feet long
012339_12645_000077 by beating everything in existence until a swedish gentleman in new york constructed a much smaller boat the coquette on very different lines for although only sixty-six feet long she drew ten feet of water
012339_12645_000078 has culminated in a linking for certain classes of very small boats single handers they are called and this linking has given impetus to the building of some little vessels which are really marvels in their way
012339_12645_000079 and finding this complete mastery of the vessel to be impossible aboard a big boat he longs for one which he can handle alone this independent and sportsmanlike instinct of the american yachter
012339_12645_000080 nevertheless when the galatea whose challenge had been postponed until eight and eighty-six came out the puritan had already been distanced by an american rival the mayflower practically a larger copy of herself as galatea was of genesta and therefore a lead keeled center board boat having a cutter like rig
012339_12645_000081 this was george steers the son of a british naval captain and ship modeler who had become an american naval officer and was the first man to take charge of the washington navy yard
012339_12645_000082 another challenge immediately came from glasgow supported by a boat named thistle built under the new rule and to oppose it mr burgess built the volunteer which differed from its predecessors mainly in increased draft and tendency toward the cutter model
012339_12645_000083 that in early times formed almost the only type of small sailboat in new york waters two other novel foreshadowing features possessed by mr stevens' boat were the use of rubber compressors on the traveler of the main boom to ease the strain of the sheet
012339_12645_000084 the result of this last contest in eighteen eighty-six was to cause british yachtsmen to abandon their old tonnage rule of measurement and adopt the far better modern one of load line and sail area measurement
012339_12645_000085 simplicity and handiness of rig have been considered in their construction and this has led in many cases to the adoption of what is known as the yawl style a rig which for safety and convenience has never been surpassed by any other the yawl is really a schooner with very small mainsail
012339_12645_000086 trial races showed that the mayflower was able to beat all her beautiful predecessors and again the british contestant was obliged to take a defeat and leave the prize in new york
012339_12645_000087 rubber is applied in many places about modern rigging and the bolting of lead to the keel as outside ballast the maria justified the expectations aroused by these and other novelties in hull and rig
012339_12645_000088 for small cruising yachts it is an excellent rig and preferable to the cat rig cat yawls are also in use they are merely yawls without jibs with such rigs as these a yachter can go alone upon the water without fear of trouble and with no need of assistance
012339_12645_000089 large sharpies have been built with fine cabin accommodations and such boats are particularly adapted to the shoal waters of the south they are fast sailers but owing to their long narrow bodies and light draft are not always trustworthy they are cheaper to build than boats of other designs
012339_12645_000090 her hull was also novel consisting of a double skin of thin wood on steel frames while the upper part of the hull projected excessively at both ends
012339_12645_000091 she was everywhere a winner and was immediately followed by a smaller boat the dilemma whose keel was an almost rectangular plate of steel the ballast which alone was trusted for stability being in the form of a cigar-shaped cylinder of lead bolted to the lower edge of the fin
012439_10926_000000 for there were deaths by that sputter of fire into endless rolling explosion of musketry distraction execration and over head from the fortress let one great gun with its grape-shot go booming to show what we could do the bastille is besieged
012439_10926_000001 could might would or should in nowise be surrendered save to the king's messenger one old man's life is worthless so it be lost with honor but think ye brawling canaille how will it be when a whole bastille springs skyward
012439_10926_000002 in such statuesque taper holding attitude one fancies de launay might have left thuriot the red clerks of the basoche
012439_10926_000003 a slight sputter which has kindled the too combustible chaos made it a roaring fire chaos bursts forth insurrection at sight of its own blood
012439_10926_000004 caen an old convent friend of charlotte's has need of which duperret shall assist her in getting this then was charlotte's errand to paris she has finished this in the course of friday yet says nothing of returning
012439_10926_000005 that twenty-five million hearts have got to such temper this is the anarchy the soul of it lies in this whereof not peace can be the embodiment the death of my
012439_10926_000006 whetting old animosities tenfold will be worse than any life oh ye hapless two mutually extinctive the beautiful and the squalid sleep ye well in the mother's bosom that bore you both this is the history of charlotte corte
012439_10926_000007 she has seen and silently investigated several things the convention in bodily reality she has seen what the mountain is like the living physiognomy of marat she could not see he is sick at present and confined to home
012439_10926_000008 arched gateway where louis tournay now fights then new drawbridges dormant bridges rampart bastions and the grim eight towers a labyrinthic mass high frowning there of all ages from twenty years to four hundred and twenty
012439_10926_000009 these to the number at one time of twenty-seven do accordingly lodge here in the intendance or departmental mansion of the town of caen in calvados welcomed by persons in authority welcomed and defrayed having no money of their own
012439_10926_000010 beleaguered in this its last hour as we said by mere chaos come again ordinance of all calibres throat of all capacities men of all plans every man his own engineer seldom since the war of pygmies and cranes was there seen so anomalous a thing
012439_10926_000011 with face rather handsome eyes inflamed speech rapid and curt air audacious such a figure drew priam's curtains the message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless that if blood flowed woe to him who shed it thus spoke the figure and vanished
012439_10926_000012 of this latter temper we count some score or more of the arrested and of the not yet arrested a buzot a barbaroux louvet guadet ption who have escaped from arrestment in their own homes a salles a pythagorean valady
012439_10926_000013 frantic patriots pick up the grape shots bear them still hot or seemingly so to the hotel de ville paris you perceive is to be burnt
012439_10926_000014 and the bulletin de caen comes forth with the most animating photographs how the bordeaux department the lyons department this department after the other is declaring itself sixty or say sixty-nine or seventy-two respectable departments either declaring or ready to declare
012439_10926_000015 their heads shall fall within a fortnight croaks the eager peoples friend clutching his tablets to write barbaroux ption writes he with bare shrunk arm turning aside in the bath ption and
012439_10926_000016 deftly thou shifty usher one man already fell and lies smashed far down there against the masonry usher maillard falls not deftly unerring he walks with outspread palm
012439_10926_000017 marat recognizing from within cries admit her charlotte corday is admitted citoyen marat i am from caen the seat of rebellion and wished to speak with you be seated mon enfant now what are the traitors doing at caen what deputies are at caen charlotte names some deputies
012439_10926_000018 the while and a squalid washer woman one may call her that is her civic establishment in medical school street thither and not else whither has his road led him
012439_10926_000019 the shifty man on his plank swinging over the abyss of that stone ditch plank resting on parapet balanced by weight of patriots he hovers perilous such a dove toward such an ark
012439_10926_000020 not to the reign of brotherhood and perfect felicity yet surely on the way toward that hark a rap again a musical woman's voice refusing to be rejected it is the citoyenne who would do france a service
012439_10926_000021 the swiss holds a paper through his port-hole the shifty usher snatches it and returns terms of surrender pardon immunity to all are they accepted foi d'officier on the word of an officer
012439_10926_000022 e help dear no more could the death choked say or shriek the helpful washerwoman running in there is no friend of the people or friend of the washerwoman left but his life with a groan gushes out indignant to the shades below
012439_10926_000023 why dwell on what follows hulin's foi d'officier should have been kept but could not the swiss stand drawn up disguised in white canvas smocks the invalides without disguise their arms all piled against the wall
012439_10926_000024 and so it goes plunging through court and corridor billowing uncontrollable firing from windows on itself in hot frenzy of triumph of grief and vengeance for its slain the poor invalides will fare ill
012439_10926_000025 answers half pay hulin or half pay elie for men do not agree on it they are sinks the drawbridges usher maillard bolting it when down rushes in the living deluge the bastille is fallen victoire la bastille est prise
012439_10926_000026 at every street barricade there whirls simmering a minor whirlpool strengthening the barricade since god knows what is coming and all minor whirlpools play distractedly into that grand fire maelstrom which is lashing round the bastille
012439_10926_000027 has said no thoroughfare and means even to bury herself under her own stone and mortar first of this be no mention in bulletin de caen such animating paragraphs we read in this new newspaper and fervors and eloquent sarcasm
012439_10926_000028 georget sprang from the breast diligence and ran gardes franaises also will be here with real artillery were not the walls so thick
012439_10926_000029 tirades against the mountain from the pen of deputy salles which resemble say friends pascal's provincials what is more to the purpose these
012439_10926_000030 nay marseilles it seems will march on paris by itself if need be so has marseilles town said that she will march but on the other hand that montlimart town
012439_10926_000031 chabot pale with terror of declaring that they are to be all assassinated may decree him pantheon honors public funeral mirabeau's dust making a way for him and jacobin societies
012439_10926_000032 in lamentable oratory summing up his character parallel him to one whom they think it honor to call the good sans-culotte
012439_10926_000033 the arms are found all safe there lying packed in straw apparently with a view to being burnt more ravenous than famishing lions over dead prey the multitude with clangor and vociferation pounces on them struggling
012439_10926_000034 national volunteers whosoever is of right heart gather in ye national volunteers friends of liberty from our calvados townships from the eure from brittany from far and near forward to paris and extinguish anarchy
012439_10926_000035 patriotism rushes in tumultuous from grunsel up to ridge-tile through all rooms and passages rummaging distractedly for arms what cellar or what cranny can escape it
012439_10926_000036 georget lay last night taking his ease at his inn the king of siam's cannon also lay knowing nothing of him for a hundred years yet now at the right instant they have got together and discourse eloquent music for hearing what was toward
012439_10926_000037 how in this extremity thou wilt refuse them old monsieur de sombreuil you would fain hold parley send couriers but it skills not the walls are scaled no invalid firing a shot the gates must be flung open
012439_10926_000038 had not the guard franaises in their cool military way wheeled round with arms leveled it would have plunged suicidality by the hundred or the thousand into the bastille ditch
012439_10926_000039 and so marat peoples friend is ended the lone stylites has got hurled down suddenly from his pillar whitherward he that made him knows patriot paris may sound triple and tenfold in dole and wail re-echoed by patriot france and the convention
012439_10926_000040 flesselles is pale to the very lips for the roar of the multitude grows deep paris wholly has got to the acme of its frenzy whirled all ways by panic madness
012439_10926_000041 girondins have got a general in chief one wimpfen formerly under dumouriez also a secondary questionable general puisaye and others and are doing their best to raise a force for war
012439_10926_000042 the clerks of the basoche in red coats we see marching now volunteers of the palais royal national volunteers numerable by tens of thousands of one heart and mind the king's muskets are the nation's think old m de sombreuil
012439_10926_000043 and so it lashes and it roars cholat the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer see georget of the marine service fresh from brest ply the king of siam's cannon singular if we were not used to the like
012439_10926_000044 the first rush of victors in ecstasy that the death peril is passed leaps joyfully on their necks but new victors rush and ever new also in ecstasy not wholly of joy as we said it was a living deluge plunging headlong
012439_10926_000045 and lago di como hawkers bake mountains of stucco into unbeautiful busts and david paint his picture or death-scene and such other apotheosis take place as the human genius in these circumstances can devise
012439_10926_000046 on then all frenchmen that have hearts in your bodies roar with all your throats of cartilage and metal ye sons of liberty
012439_10926_000047 be given to him for marat too had a brother an natural affection and was wrapped once in swaddling-clothes and slept safe in a cradle like the rest of us ye children of men a sister of his they say lives still to this day in paris
012439_10926_000048 and in a france begirt with cimmerian invading coalitions and torn with an internal la vende this is the conclusion we have arrived at to put down anarchy by civil war
012439_10926_000049 had not a woman run screaming had not a patriot with some tincture of natural philosophy instantly struck the wind out of him butt of muskets on pit of stomach overturned barrels and stayed the devouring element a young beautiful lady
012439_10926_000050 of saint stephen and all the tagrag and bobtail of the world to work their will and yet withal he could not do it hast thou considered how each man's heart is so tremulously responsive to the hearts of all men
012439_10926_000051 whom we name not here also a chapel may be made for the urn that holds his heart in the place du carrousel and newborn children be named maha
012439_10926_000052 fiere contenance of the parisians and now to the bastille ye intrepid parisians there grape-shot still threatens thither all men's thoughts and steps are now tending
012439_10926_000053 are on the shoulders of as many national guards lifted thereby out of darkness into fiery light let besenval look at the glitter of these muskets as they flash by
012439_10926_000054 thus at caen in the early july days there is a drumming and parading a perorating and consulting staff and army council club of carabots anti-jacobin friends of freedom to denounce atrocious marat
012439_10926_000055 with all which and the editing of bulletins a national representative has his hands full at caen it is most animated and as one hopes more or less animated in the seventy-two departments that adhere to us
012439_10926_000056 through roarings and cursings through hustlings clutchings and at last through strokes your escort is hustled aside fell down hulin sinks exhausted on a heap of stones
012439_10926_000057 but marat returns no more to the light of this sun one sole circumstance we have read with clear sympathy in the old moniteur newspaper how marat's brother comes from neuchtel to ask of the convention that the deceased jean-paul marat's musket
012439_10926_000058 durum et durum the proverb says non faciunt murum la vende burns santerre can do nothing there he may return home and brew beer cimmerian bombshells fly all along the north
012439_10926_000059 we fall shots and make no impression let conflagration rage of whatsoever is combustible guard rooms are burnt invalids mess rooms a distracted peruke maker with two fiery torches is for burning the saltpeter of the arsenal
012439_10926_000060 one swiss running off in his white smock is driven back with a death-thrust let all prisoners be marched to the town-hall to be judged
012439_10926_000061 dashing clutching to the jamming up to the pressure fracture probable extinction of the weaker patriot and so with such protracted crash of deafening most discordant orchestra music the scene is changed and eight and twenty thousand sufficient fire locks
012439_10926_000062 alas already one poor invalid has his right hand slashed off him his maimed body dragged to the place de greve and hanged there this same right hand it is said turned back de launay from the powder magazine and saved paris
012439_10926_000063 about eight on the saturday morning she purchases a large sheath-knife in the palais royal then a straightway in the place des victoires takes a hackney-coach to the rue de la co to number forty four it is the residence of the citoyen marat the
012439_10926_000064 upward from the esplanade horizontally from all neighboring roofs and windows flashes one irregular deluge of musketry without effect the invalids lie flat firing comparatively at their ease from behind a stone hardly through portholes show the tip of the nose
012439_10926_000065 but to the living and the struggling a new fourteenth morning dawns under all roofs of this distracted city is the nodus of a drama not untragical crowding toward solution
012439_10926_000066 miserable de launay he shall never enter the hotel-de-ville only his bloody hair queue held up in a bloody hand that shall enter for a sign the bleeding trunk lies on the steps there the head is off through the streets ghastly aloft on a pike
012439_10926_000067 reinforced by thirty-two young swiss his walls indeed are nine feet thick he has cannon and powder but alas only one day's provision of victuals the city too is french the poor garrison mostly french rigorous old de launay think what thou wilt do
012439_10926_000068 but without effect mathematical romme and prieur named of the cote d'or venturing thither with their olive and sword are packed into prison there may romme lie under lock and key for fifty days and meditate his new calendar if he please
012439_10926_000069 benevolence these wave their town flag in the arched gateway and stand rolling their drum but to no purpose in such crack of doom de launay cannot hear them dare not believe them they return with justified rage
012439_10926_000070 on wednesday morning the thronged palais de justice and revolutionary tribunal can see her face beautiful and calm she dates it fourthly of the preparation of peace a strange murmur ran through the hall at sight of her you could not say of what character
012439_10926_000071 as for charlotte corday her work is accomplished the recompense of it is near and sure the chere amie and the neighbors of the house flying at her she overturns some movables
012439_10926_000072 as how fall the walls are so thick deputations three in number arrive from the hotel-de-ville abbe fauchet who was of one can say with what almost superhuman courage of
012439_10926_000073 was stormed general dampierre was killed general custine was blamed and indeed is now come to paris to give explanations against all which the mountain and atrocious marat must even make head as they can
012439_10926_000074 blood flows the ailment of new madness the wounded are carried into houses of the rue cerisaie the dying leave their last mandate not to yield till the accursed stronghold fall and yet
012439_10926_000075 the old soldier dashes in and rescues her straw is burnt three cartloads of it hauled hither go up in white smoke almost to the choking of patriotism itself
012439_10926_000076 so that elie had with singed brows to drag back one cart and role the gigantic haberdasher another smoke as of tophet confusion as of babel noise as of the crack of doom
012439_10926_000077 la rosire gains admittance finds de launay indisposed for surrender nay disposed for blowing up the place rather
012439_10926_000078 provost flesselles stricken long since with the paleness of death must descend from his seat to be judged at the palais royal alas to be shot dead by an unknown hand at the turning of the first street
012439_10926_000079 old de launay as we hinted withdrew into his interior soon after midnight of sunday he remains there ever since hampered as all military gentlemen now are in the saddest conflict of uncertainties
012439_10926_000080 duperret is put in arrest on account of her his papers sealed which may lead to consequences fauchet in like manner though fauchet had not so much as heard of her charlotte confronted with these two deputies praises the grave firmness of duperret censures the dejection of fauchet
012439_10926_000081 tinville has his indictments and tape papers the cutler of the palais royal will testify that he sold her the sheath-knife all these details are needless interrupted charlotte it is i that killed marat
012439_10926_000082 brothers your wrath is cruel your place de greve is become a throat of the tiger full of mere fierce bellowings and thirst of blood
012439_10926_000083 one other officer is massacred one other invalid is hanged on the lamp iron with difficulty with generous perseverance the gardes francaises will save the rest
012439_10926_000084 they anarchic convention as they are publish decrees expostulatory explanatory yet not without severity they ray forth commissioners singly or in pairs the olive branch in one hand yet the sword in the other commissioners come even to caen
012439_10926_000085 intrenches herself till the gendarmes arrive then quietly surrenders goes quietly to the abbaye prison she alone quiet all paris sounding in wonder in rage or admiration round her
012439_10926_000086 rigorous de launay has died crying out oh friends kill me fast merciful de losme must die though gratitude embraces him in this fearful hour and will die for him it avails not
012439_10926_000087 in gentle phrase in high flown classical spirit to the priest they send her she gives thanks but needs not any shriving any ghostly or other aid from him
012439_10926_000088 hast thou noted how omnipotent is the very sound of many men how their shriek of indignation palsies the strong soul their howl of costumely withers with unfelt pangs the ritter gluck confessed that the
012439_10926_000089 there is therefore nothing to be said the public gazes astonished the hasty limners sketch her features charlotte not disapproving the men of law proceed with their formalities the doom is death as a murderess to her advocate she gives thanks
012459_12753_000000 also in the arrangement of minute invisible scratches and the accumulation of dust particles which collect from day to day all of which affect the arrangement and collection of the frost crystals it has been observed that double windows and furnace heated apartments are not favourable to frost formations
012459_12753_000001 the night time seems to be most favourable for the finest efforts of jack frost usually in midwinter or early spring he prefers to select a still cold night zero weather for his best out-of-door display
012459_12753_000002 for with all his mischief-making he finds abundant opportunity to work out and display much really fine artistic ability in his choice etchings and decorative schemes
012459_12753_000003 but it is usually in the coldest winter weather that he applies his very choicest designs upon the glass of our windows and just how charming and interesting they are you may judge by the photographed designs herein showing
012459_12753_000004 all of us are more or less familiar with the mischievous pranks of jack frost and they are quite separate and apart from those of the gentle white hoar frost which is frequently seen early in autumn upon the first still cool mornings
012459_12753_000005 jack frost as the great frost spirit is familiarly known the world over is a most important if rather mythical personage and very few of us are really familiar with the works which he creates in his more serious moods and the really wonderful methods which he displays
012459_12753_000006 who has simply paused to caress them with his icy breath in passing and lo they are beautiful later when the morning sun touches them they all like cinderella are shorn of their finery and become as before just mere commonplace brown and withered seed pods again
012459_12753_000007 again an ominous cracking as loud as a rifle report comes from the still ice-covered pond it is merely jack frost indulging in a bit of rifle practice
012459_12753_000008 but with infinite patience as soon as it is twilight the following night the frost spirit steals forth again and restores once more his magic fantastic pictures by the rays of the wintry moonlight
012459_12753_000009 upon a still moonlit night when jack frost is astir if you chance to be out of doors especially in the open country you will be made aware of his presence in many ways besides the tingling of your ears suddenly a sharp mysterious report will occur in the forest and a great tree trunk is cleft mysteriously in twain
012459_12753_000010 the heavy frosts are a recognized and most important factor in creating remarkable changes in rocky formations of the earth's surface large masses of rock are constantly being split and reconstructed by its mighty blasting powers
012459_12753_000011 and great sections of solid material are converted in the same manner into soil by the secret action of the frost which works continually with the other elements of heat and water to effect these changes
012459_12753_000012 these powerful agents working year after year cause vast and important changes to occur in the formation of mountains and valleys so great is the power of frost that it has frequently been utilised in blasting
012459_12753_000013 the beautiful frost studies illustrating this chapter were photographed in northern vermont where the winters are long and the cold very intense affording the best opportunities possible for the development and study of the frost etchings these studies are of course somewhat magnified yet you will have no difficulty in recognizing many familiar frost designs
012459_12753_000014 when water being poured into the crevice of a great rock and allowed to freeze the rock was readily split as desired all vegetation succumbs readily to the withering blight of the frost with the exception of the evergreen varieties
012459_12753_000015 of all the pranks in which jack frost indulges his wholesale destruction of the beautiful flowers and plants is the greatest to be deplored but with all the marvellous works of the mighty frost spirit nothing is quite so fascinating and interesting as the curious phenomena or frost formations which he creates and deposits upon the window-panes in mid-winter
012459_12753_000016 the cause for this is that the juices of plants naturally expand when touched by the frost and at last burst which destroys the vesicles or life of the plant which soon blackens and dies
012459_12753_000017 how it glittered and sparkled the delicate frostwork you were attracted no doubt and marvelled at the dainty tracings but few of us have really had an opportunity to study the detail of these frost designs minutely or have considered that there were more than three or four designs at most
012459_12753_000018 jack frost is a finished artist i assure you and his etchings are dainty and attractive beyond words if you have entered an unlighted room and seen the moonlight filtering palely through a frost etched window then you know its charm
012459_12753_000019 after this has been allowed to dissolve gradually you will observe a thin water film or formation which has been left upon the outer edge of the glass the centre of which will be clear do not disturb this film for it is in part from this that the frost crystallisations form and develop
012459_12753_000020 marvellous indeed is the variety and detail displayed in these attractive windowpane etchings furnished by the frost spirit and if one is housed some day in midwinter zero weather one may watch the entire growth and development of these exquisite frost etchings from start to finish
012459_12753_000021 to do this place a lamp or candle before a frost-covered window in a cold room or unheated by furnace of course not near enough to the glass to crack it but just close enough to melt the heavy frost curtain which may have formed previously upon the glass
012459_12753_000022 delicate lines and stars and also in a thin dew like deposit which rapidly freezes and assumes a granular snow like form this granular frost develops very rapidly and soon covers all the unoccupied clear dry places
012459_12753_000023 formations which sometimes resemble fine coral branches as soon as the water film ice crystallisations are completed they are closely followed by the true frost crystals which form upon the various dry places upon the glass
012459_12753_000024 exquisite tracings and fern-like leaves shoot out as by magic toward the centre of the glass but as soon as they reach a dry place upon the glass they instantly cease if you observe very closely you will discover that meanwhile in the little open spaces between the bolder fern-like designs more delicate feathery forms are gradually appearing
012459_12753_000025 as soon as you move the lamp away from the glass the pictures instantly begin to grow and develop delicate feathery etchings of ice crystals first appearing around the outer edge of the water film and according to the temperature of the room form rapidly or slowly
012459_12753_000026 but one curious fact worthy of observation it does not intrude upon or approach near to the separate and individual designs or masterpieces of the frost already formed upon the glass
012459_12753_000027 reduplications of any previous design are extremely rare and would only occur when a multitude of identical conditions occur this is rather singular when we consider the different factors which go to form the window-pane frost certain panes of glass vary in thickness and in surface topography
012459_12753_000028 classified there are about ten distinct types of the windowpane frost representatives of each and all types never appear at any given time upon one window and strangely enough the designs are never precisely alike on any two panes of glass
012459_12753_000029 but rather draws away from their immediate vicinity this strange habit of the granular frost is well shown in the photographed illustration where it will be observed that the granular frost acts merely as a background or sky effect for the real frost pictures as in a painting
012459_12753_000030 in zero weather in mid-winter when the earth is frozen to a great depth below the surface when in driving over the unpaved country roads they give forth a hard metallic road
012459_12753_000031 the white fern-like type is raised from the glass and was formed in a very cold room where it slowly developed and grew for days number thirty-nine as another striking arrangement of the two types observe the very delicate fleecy patterns of the frost which forms a background for the fern-like scrolls
012459_12753_000032 when icicles hang by the wall and dick the shepherd blows his nail and tom bears logs into the hall and milk comes frozen home in pail shakespeare
012459_12753_000033 when the trees are all stripped of their coverings with the exception of a few forlorn brown leaves which cling tenaciously to the skeleton branches which crack and sway in the chilly blasts
012459_12753_000034 number forty shows a perfectly developed fern while in number forty-one we have a strikingly beautiful example of a group of ferns this type is heavily laid upon the glass and develops in zero weather
012459_12753_000035 then indeed we may be fully assured that nature has utterly succumbed to the advances of the frost king and that jack frost himself has arrived in earnest
012459_12753_000036 how he tweaks and nips exposed ears and noses and how they tingle and ache because of his stinging caress jack frost we read is the very personification of frost and cold
012459_12939_000000 following the road that led to sky pond fifteen miles away with jolly robin after him jolly chased him for a long time until at last jasper jay swerved to one side and turned toward home
012459_12939_000001 perhaps jasper hadn't intended that jolly robin should hear those words and perhaps he had anyhow he was sorry afterward that he had spoken so loud for the first thing he knew jolly robin flew straight at him with shrill chirps of rage and jasper was so surprised and frightened too that he flew off as fast as he could go
012459_12939_000002 jolly found that there was a good reason for such rules if he hadn't followed his father then he might have lost his way because since it was the first time he had ever been out of pleasant valley he knew nothing whatever about travelling
012459_12939_000003 however he managed to find food enough so that he continued to grow rapidly the night after he found a mountain ash on a hillside full of bright red berries his father said that he seemed much taller than he had been that morning
012459_12939_000004 he roamed about picking wild grapes mulberries and elderberries and he did not scorn a large green katydid when he chanced to find one there was always some new dainty to be sampled though as the weather grew colder jolly began to understand that in winter pleasant valley would not be so fine a place to live
012459_12939_000005 you must have eaten a great many of those berries said mr robin well i notice one thing jolly observed my waistcoat is fast losing its black spots and it's redder than it was the red berries certainly colored it in some way
012459_12939_000006 he looked forward with much interest to the journey for as the days grew shorter he heard a great deal of talk about the trip among his elders and while he was waiting for the day when they should leave he became acquainted with many new and delicious morsels to eat
012459_12939_000007 it's really a beautiful place for a home he told himself i don't wonder that farmer green likes to live near the orchard and now i'll just go over to the house and see if i can't get a peep at him and his wife and his boy johnnie and the hired man too
012459_12939_000008 johnnie green liked that kind of snow because it made the best snowballs and he had had a fine time playing in the orchard near the farmhouse not long before jolly robin appeared there now the orchard was the place where jolly robin and his wife had had their nest the summer before so it was natural that he should want to go there at once and look about a bit
012459_12939_000009 you see the snowball hit one of the stranger's arms and to jolly's amazement the arm at once dropped off and dashed upon the ground breaking into a dozen pieces that alone was enough to startle jolly robin but the moon-faced man paid not the slightest attention to the accident
012459_12939_000010 so jolly visited the mountain ash each day and fairly stuffed himself with the bright red fruit it did him no harm anyhow and he enjoyed eating it and the next spring when jolly robin returned to pleasant valley after spending the winter in the south there was not a redder waistcoat than his in all the neighborhood
012459_12939_000011 mr robin replied that he had never heard of such a thing happening he looked curiously at his son's waistcoat it does seem to look different he said it's brighter than it was
012459_12939_000012 really that was only because jolly was fast growing up but neither he nor his father stopped to think of that and since jolly had learned that motto follow your father's lead he thought his waistcoat ought to be just as red as old mr robin's was
012459_12939_000013 so jolly robin jumped off the bough and started through the frosty air toward the farmhouse but all at once he saw a sight that sent him darting into a tree he hid there for a while and something made him shiver something besides the cold wind
012459_12939_000014 yes jolly robin was the least bit frightened for he had caught a glimpse of a strange man it was neither farmer green nor his hired man for this was a giant he had big black eyes and a great lump of a nose which stuck out queerly from his pale moon face
012459_12939_000015 in spite of his uneasiness jolly peeped around his tree and watched the stranger but he did not throw the stick he stood quite still and seemed to be waiting and jolly robin waited too and stared at him
012459_12939_000016 maybe there's a squirrel hiding behind a tree he said to himself perhaps this man in white is going to throw the stick as soon as the squirrel shows himself but no squirrel appeared and jolly robin was just about to start for the farmhouse again when he saw somebody pop out of the woodshed door and come running toward the orchard
012459_12939_000017 there was something ghostly in the way he stood there all in white never moving never once saying a word but johnnie green did not seem frightened at all he set up a great shouting and began to let fly his snowballs as fast as he could throw them they did not all find the mark but the very last one struck the silent stranger squarely upon his left ear
012459_12939_000018 and to jolly robin's horror his head toppled off and fell horridly at his feet jolly robin fully expected the man in white to turn and chase johnnie green then or at least to hurl his stick at johnnie
012459_12939_000019 but jolly robin followed him no longer he kept straight on and on and on and he flew so fast and so far before he stopped that he overtook the party that had started a whole day ahead of him
012459_12939_000020 but nothing of the sort happened and jolly did not wait for anything more he felt that he had seen quite enough so he flew away to the shelter of the woods to find somebody to whom he could talk and tell of the strange thing that had happened in the orchard
012459_12939_000021 he was dressed all in white except for a battered old black hat which he wore tipped over one eye in one hand he held a stick and it seemed to jolly robin that the queer man was just about to hurl it at something
012459_12939_000022 i don't understand it he said with a shake of his own head the whole affair was very odd i'm afraid i shall not care to live in the orchard this summer especially if there's a headless man there for how can he ever see to leave the orchard it was jimmy rabbit's turn to look puzzled for that was a question that he couldn't answer
012459_12939_000023 and then johnnie green shied a snowball at him the snowball sailed through the air and struck the stranger's battered hat knocking it off into the snow and of course jolly robin couldn't help laughing he was more surprised than ever too because the moon-faced man did not move even then
012459_12939_000024 anyone else would have wheeled about and chased johnnie green but this odd gentleman didn't seem to know that his hat had been knocked off that's queer said jolly robin to himself he must be asleep but i should think he would wake up
012459_12939_000025 here's johnnie green jolly exclaimed he knew johnnie at once because neither farmer green nor the hired man ever went hopping and skipping about like that pretty soon jolly saw johnnie green stop and make an armful of snowballs and then he went straight toward the stranger in white though johnnie began to shout the man in white did not even turn his head
012459_12939_000026 maybe there is something queer about this case he said i'll go over to the orchard tomorrow and take a look at that headless stranger and see what i think about him if you'll meet me here we can go together
012459_12939_000027 over in the woods jolly was lucky enough to meet jimmy rabbit who was always very friendly toward him and as soon as he had inquired about jimmy rabbit's health they had not seen each other since the previous fall you know jolly related how he'd seen johnnie green knock off the head of the man in the orchard
012459_12939_000028 head it's one of his queer notions his and jasper jay's she explained tut tut her husband said and he chucked her under the chin and winked at his friends there was no time to say anything more for everyone was eager to start
012459_12939_000029 and the man never paid the slightest heed to what happened said jolly robin he had a stick in his hand but he didn't throw it there's nothing queer about that jimmy rabbit remarked how could he see where to throw his stick when he had no head but jolly robin could not answer that question and he looked more puzzled than ever
012459_12939_000030 so the travelers called goodbye to jolly while he waved a farewell to them it was not many minutes before he was the only member of the robin family left in pleasant valley he felt very lonely all at once and he wanted to hurry after the others but he knew what jasper jay would say if he did
012459_12939_000031 all of jolly robin's friends and relations were greatly surprised when they saw him bidding his wife and children goodbye on the day the robin family started from pleasant valley for their winter home in the south
012459_12939_000032 while jolly robin was wondering johnnie green threw another snowball and when it struck the stranger a very peculiar thing happened and jolly robin did not laugh he was too frightened to do anything but gasp
012459_12939_000033 but in the morning he felt better and he welcomed the dawn with a carol that was joyous enough for anybody for this was the day when jasper jay was going to show him the new way to travel yes he too would soon be hurrying southwards where the sun was warm it was no wonder that he sang cheerily cheerup cheerily cheerup right merrily
012459_12939_000034 jasper would be sure to tell people that jolly robin was afraid to travel a new way of course jolly didn't want that to be said about him so he looked as cheerful as he could and he whistled the merriest tune he knew nobody except his wife maybe would have guessed that he wasn't perfectly happy
012459_12939_000035 now jolly robin had almost decided that he would never go near the orchard again but he felt that if he went with jimmy rabbit there ought not to be much danger so he agreed to jimmy's suggestion i'll be here before the morning's gone he promised
012459_12939_000036 so he travelled to his winter home in the old-fashioned way after all and though jolly robin laughed when he told his friends about jasper jay's new style of travelling there was one thing over which he could not smile even then you see fraid-cat was a name he couldn't abide
012459_12939_000037 jolly spent a very lonely night when he went to the roost where the whole robin family had been sleeping for several weeks he found it distressingly silent after the gay chatter that he had grown accustomed to hearing there and try as he would he could not keep just a hint of sadness out of his goodnight song
012459_12939_000038 you meet me in the orchard this afternoon he said when the sun's over the mountain and i'll start you on your journey so jolly robin had to wait all the long day while jasper jay did a hundred silly things such as mocking farmer green's cat and teasing a sleepy young owl and making the woods echo with his hoarse screams
012459_12939_000039 as soon as he had eaten his breakfast jolly went to the place where the beeches grew to find jasper jay and jasper was there just finishing his own breakfast but he was too busy he said to bother with jolly robin just then
012459_12939_000040 what's that you say asked jasper jay and when jolly repeated his question jasper began to scream with laughter well that's a good one he said at last so you thought the post was going to pull itself out of the ground and fly away with you did you
012459_12939_000041 why yes jolly robin replied aren't these wings he asked looking down at the boards they're already spread he observed it was some minutes before jasper jay could answer him for he was laughing again but finally he managed to speak
012459_12939_000042 come along said the blue-coated rascal follow me and you'll soon learn the new way to the south and if it isn't a good one i hope i'll never eat another beechnut jolly robin laughed he was sure then that he had nothing to worry about for everybody knew that jasper jay was specially fond of beechnuts
012459_12939_000043 when will the post begin to move jolly robin inquired a bit anxiously he had waited a whole day to begin his long journey to the south so it was only natural that he should want to start at once
012459_12939_000044 jasper was late too in keeping his appointment in the orchard jolly robin waited for him until almost sunset before jasper jay appeared but jolly was so glad to see jasper that he never once thought of being angry with him
012459_12939_000045 with jolly robin following close behind him jasper jay flew directly to the crossroads almost halfway to the village once there he perched himself upon the signpost at the four corners and jolly robin seated himself upon one of the boards that were nailed to the post here we are said jasper jay you see how easy it is
012459_12939_000046 so jolly robin fluttered over to the fence and from there he could see the signboard plainly this is what it looked like to sky pond fifteen miles there jasper jay cried when jolly had read the sign aloud you see how easy it is all you need do is to follow this road to which the hand points
012459_12939_000047 to the south one thousand miles you see how simple it is jasper jay remarked with a sign-board to guide you you can't go wrong but it seemed to jolly that the new way of travelling was far more difficult than the old he said as much to jasper jay too
012459_12939_000048 then i shall have to fly after all jolly robin said he had expected to have a ride and naturally he was disappointed then he read the sign once more sky pond he exclaimed i don't want to go to sky pond i want to go to the south
012459_12939_000049 well sky pond's south of pleasant valley jasper jay explained it's right on your way to your winter home and all you have to do when you reach sky pond will be to find another sign which ought to say something like this
012459_12939_000050 after he learned to fly jolly robin's father took him into the woods to spend each night in a roost where there were many other young robins whose fathers had likewise brought them there jolly learned a great deal from being with so many new friends it was not long before he could find plenty of food for himself without help from anyone
012459_12939_000051 always help other people that was a motto that all the youngsters had to learn and another was this follow your father's lead later in the season in october when the robin cousins and uncles and aunts and sisters and brothers and all the rest of the relations made their long journey to their winter homes in the south
012459_13118_000000 of course he hoped that a pair of wrens would build their nest inside the syrup can but what he never dreamed was that the cherry tree was exactly the sort of tree that wrens liked it was not that rusty and his wife cared for cherries
012459_13118_000001 he was so cheerful and good-natured that rusty wren and his wife did not object to jolly's visits so long as he did not venture too near their house they always scolded loudly when an outsider came too close to their home for they had a big family of children and they couldn't help feeling that the youngsters were safer with no prying busybodies to meddle with them
012459_13118_000002 not being fond of cherries they did not look forward to the time when the bright red fruit should hang gaily upon the branches above their home but there were others besides johnnie green who eagerly awaited that time and noticed that the old tree was loaded with blossoms which meant that later there would be plenty of cherries
012459_13118_000003 of course jolly robin never once thought of harming any of rusty's family and as soon as he saw that rusty and especially his wife wanted him to keep away from their side of the tree he took care to respect their wishes
012676_12930_000000 they were very angry and ran out after the boy they caught him eating the bananas and killed him the body they left lying under the trees and taking out his ghost threw it into the underworld
012676_12930_000001 and how in despair she had taken her life the spirit going to the under-world hiku the child of the forest was overcome with grief he was ready to do anything to atone for the suffering he had caused
012676_12930_000002 they began to cut the koko blood of the trees as the natives termed the flowing sap and the chips flying out struck some of the woodcutters and they fell dead
012676_12930_000003 again the same sound awakened his curiosity he now learned that it came from the distant seashore far below his home on the mountainside hiku of the forest called his mother and together they listened as again the strange sound from the beach rose along the mountain gulches and was echoed among the cliffs e hiku
012676_12930_000004 it is said that the generations of their children gave many rulers to the hawaiians and that their present royal family the house of kalakaua is the last of the descendants
012676_12930_000005 how could these ghosts be detected they would certainly appear in human form and be carefully safeguarded the chief sorcerer of kauhi's family told kauhi to make secretly a thorough test
012676_12930_000006 then the father stirred by hope rose up and took food and drink soon he was strong enough to go on his journey the gods gave him a ghost body and also prepared a hollow stick like bamboo in which they put food battle weapons and a piece of burning lava for fire
012676_12930_000007 thus she could aid her own cause and also protect the sister spirits slowly and with great dignity the beautiful rainbow maiden and her friends passed through the crowds of eager attendants to their places before the king
012676_12930_000008 so after the death of kahekili kamehameha did conquer all the islands with their hosts of gods and kalaipahoa the poison god came into his possession
012676_12930_000009 in the realm of milu he saw the people in the game of rolling coconut shells to hit a post kulioe one of the spirits had been playing the kilu and had lost all his property to the daughter of milu and one of her friends he saw hiku and said if you are a skilful man perhaps you should play with these two girls
012676_12930_000010 the father toiled hour after hour cultivating his food plants and when wearied returned to his home on the way he met the two gods they told him how his boy had robbed them of their sacrifices and how they had punished him they said we have sent his ghost body to the lowest regions of the underworld
012676_12930_000011 this could be done by taking the large and delicate leaves of the ape plant and spreading them over the place where kahala must walk and sit before the judges a human being could not touch these leaves so carefully placed without tearing and bruising them
012676_12930_000012 another is a squat rough image crudely carved out of wood this was kamehameha's poison god the ancient hawaiians were acquainted with poisons of various kinds they understood the medicinal qualities of plants and found some of these strange enough to cause sickness and even death
012676_12930_000013 kane ia kama made cloaks of the long leaves of the ieie vine and tied them around his men so that their bodies could not be touched then the work was easily accomplished the chief kept these images of gods cut from the medicinal trees and could use them as he desired
012676_12930_000014 but the gods of the sea favored hiku hiku had never been to the seaside and had never learned the arts of those who were skillful in the waters nevertheless as he entered the water he carried the surfboard more royally than any chief the people had ever known
012676_12930_000015 kahala bruised and broke as many of the leaves as she could quietly she was recognized at once as the child of the divine rain and wind of manoa valley there was no question concerning her bodily presence the torn leaves afforded ample and indisputable testimony
012676_12930_000016 therefore he rubbed his body once more thoroughly with the oil and disfigured himself with dirt as he passed from place to place searching for kewalu the ghosts said what a bad-smelling spirit so they turned away from him as if he was one of the most unworthy ghosts dwelling in milu
012676_12930_000017 the sunlight shone in splendor upon his polished body when he stood on the board and rode to the shore on the crests of the highest surf waves performing wonderful feats by his magic power
012676_12930_000018 the rainbow the anuenue marks the continuation of the legendary life of kahala the legend of kahala is worthy of record in itself but connected with the story is a very interesting account of an attempt to discover and capture ghosts
012676_12930_000019 the father was very weak from hunger and longing for death and could scarcely listen to them when kane said have you love for your child the father whispered yes my love is without end can you go down into the dark land and get the spirit and put it back in the body which lies here
012676_12930_000020 in it are images of many of the gods of long ago one of these is a helmeted head made of wicker-work over which has been woven a thick covering of beautiful red feathers bordered with yellow feathers this was the mighty war-god kukailimoku of the great kamehameha
012676_12930_000021 no the father said no i can only die and go to live with him and make him happier by taking him to a better place then the gods said we will give you the power to go after your boy and we will help you to escape the dangers of the land of ghosts
012676_12930_000022 and repair the injury ku told him that only by the most daring effort could he hope to regain his loved bride he could go to the under-world meet the ghosts and bring his sister back but this could only be done at very great risk to himself
012676_12930_000023 said the mother that is the clapping of hands of a large number of men and women the people who live by the sea are very much pleased and are expressing their great delight in some wonderful deed of a great chief
012676_12930_000024 we have not paid him well for his care then they decided to go and give life to the father and permit him to take his ghost body and go down to po the dark land to bring back the ghost of the boy so they went to maluae and told him that they were sorry for what they had done
012676_12930_000025 the overthrow of idolatry and destruction of the system of taboos came in eighteen nineteen but most of the wooden gods were burned or thrown into ponds and rivers but a few were concealed by their caretakers among these were the two gods now to be seen in the bishop museum in honolulu
012676_12930_000026 one of the hawaiian writers said the opihiawa is a poison shellfish these are bitter and deadly and can be used in putting enemies to death
012676_12930_000027 near the heiau when the great noise made by the people aroused her she sent one of her friends to learn the cause of such rejoicing when she learned that an exceedingly handsome chief of the highest rank was sporting among her tabu waters she determined to see him
012676_12930_000028 kauhi in despair recognized the girl whom he had several times tried to slay in bitter disappointment at the failure of his ghost test the chief sorcerer as the kalakaua version of this legend says declared that he saw and felt the presence of spirits in some manner connected with her
012676_12930_000029 hiku chanted are you known by papa and wakea o eyelashes or rays of the sun mine is the cup of kilu her cup did not touch the kilu post before hiku
012676_12930_000030 the spirit sisters whispered to kahala telling her the purpose attending the use of the ape leaves and asking her to break as many of them on either side of her as she could without attracting undue attention
012676_12930_000031 halfway between manoa and waikiki both wanted the beautiful arch to rest over their homes and a maiden the descendant of the gods to dwell therein
012676_12930_000032 hiku said i have nothing i have only come this day and am alone kulioe bet his bones against some of the property he had lost the first girl threw up her cup at the kilu post
012676_12930_000033 this spirit face was believed to be his own true spirit escaping for the moment from the body and bathing in the liquid before him akaaka leaped forward thrust his hands
012676_12930_000034 one of the priests would then take the awa cup drink the contents and quickly take food those who were watching would presently see a red flush creep over his cheeks
012676_12930_000035 near the seacoast of this estate was one of the most noted ghost localities of the islands the ghosts after wandering over the island oahu would come to this place to find a way into their real home the underworld or po
012676_12930_000036 he became angry with the rainbow maiden and killed her and buried the body but her guardian god pueo the owl scratched away the earth and brought her to life several times this occurred and the owl each time restored the buried body to the wandering spirit
012676_12930_000037 thus hiku married his sister kewalu according to the custom of that time because she was the only one of all the people equal to him in rank and beauty and he alone was fitted to stand in her presence for a long time they lived together sometimes sporting among the highest white crests of stormtossed surf waves
012676_12930_000038 which no other among either mortals or spirits should know beside themselves while kewalu was singing she introduced her part of this chant suddenly from among the throng of ghosts arose the sound of a clear voice chanting the response which was known by no other person but hiku
012676_12930_000039 in his anxiety to detect and seize the spirits who might be attending kahala he forgot about himself and leaned over the calabash his own spirit face was the only one reflected on the surface of the water
012676_12930_000040 he needed merely to taste the food in his hollow cane to have new life and strength this he had done when he climbed the tree thus he had been able to push pass the fabled guardians of the pathway of the ghosts in the upperworld
012676_12930_000041 when kewalu came near she took the wreath of rare and fragrant flowers which she wore and coming close to him threw it around his shoulders as a token to all the people that she had taken him to be her husband
012676_12930_000042 many times as when rendered unconscious it was believed that the spirit had left the body but for some reason had been able to come back into it and enjoy life among friends once more
012676_12930_000043 the spirit of the murdered girl was wandering around hoping that it could be restored to the body and not be compelled to descend to milu the underworld of the hawaiians
012676_12930_000044 this was a method frequently employed throughout all the islands of the hawaiian group it was believed that any face reflected in a pool or calabash of water was a spirit face many times had ghosts been discovered in this way
012676_12930_000045 so calling her maidens she went down to the seashore and first saw hiku on the highest crest of the rolling surf she decided at once that she had never seen a man so comely and hiku surfing to the shore felt that he had never dreamed of such grace and beauty as marked the maiden who was coming to welcome him
012676_12930_000046 at last the chief buried the body deep down under the roots of a large koa tree the owl god scratched and pulled but the roots of the tree were many and strong his claws were entangled again and again at last he concluded that life must be extinct and so deserted the place
012676_12930_000047 she had not been long with the chiefs of milu before they asked her to sing or chant her mele her mele was the family song by which any chief made known his rank and the family with which he was connected whenever he visited chiefs far away from his own home
012676_12930_000048 the ghosts would leap or fly or climb into the branches of the tree trying to find a rotten branch upon which they could sit until it broke and threw them into the dark sea below
012676_12930_000049 a native writer says that there was an antidote for the poison of kalai pahoa and he thus describes it the war god and the poison god were not left standing in the temples like the images of other gods after being worshipped were wrapped in kapa and laid away
012676_12930_000050 po was sometimes the underworld and milu was the god ruling over po the hawaiian ghosts did not go to the home of the dead as soon as they were separated from the body
012676_12930_000051 then he threw the cup numbered twenty won all the property and gave it back to kulioe at last he found kewalu but she was by the side of the high chief milu
012676_12930_000052 maluae climbed up the breadfruit tree he found a branch where ghosts were sitting waiting for it to fall his weight was so much greater than theirs that the branch broke at once and down they all fell into the land of po
012676_12930_000053 she threw again but did not touch while hiku chanted the same words they took a new cup but failed hiku commenced swinging the cup and threw it glided and twisted around the floor and struck the post thus counted five and won the first bet
012676_12930_000054 sometimes enjoying the guessing and gambling games in which the hawaiians of all times have been very expert sometimes chanting meles and genealogies and telling marvelous stories of sea and forest
012676_12930_000055 not far from honolulu is a beautiful modern estate with fine roads lakes running brooks and interesting valleys extending back into the mountain range this is called by the very ancient name moanalua two lakes
012676_12930_000056 and sometimes feasting and resting under the trees surrounding their grass houses hiku at last grew weary of the life by the sea he wanted the forest on the mountain and the cold stimulating air of the uplands
012676_12930_000057 who had seen the beautiful princess as she came into the under world more glorious was kewalu than any other of all those of noble blood who had ever descended to milu the ghosts had welcomed the spirit of the princess with great rejoicing and the king had called her at once to the highest place in his court
012676_12930_000058 hiku heard the chant and mingled with the multitude of ghosts gathered around the place where the high chiefs were welcoming the spirit of kewalu while hiku and kewalu had been living together one of their pleasures was composing and learning to intone a chant
012676_12930_000059 when the priest wanted kalai pahoa he was taken down and anointed with coconut oil and wrapped in a fresh kapa cloth then he was set up above the altar and a feast prepared before him awa to drink and pig fish and poi to eat
012676_12930_000060 the face in the water had been grasped by the watcher crushed between his hands and the spirit destroyed the chief sorcerer eagerly ordered a calabash of water to be quickly brought and placed before him
012676_12930_000061 down into the water and seized and crushed this spirit face between his mighty hands thus it was destroyed before it could return to its home of flesh and blood
012676_12930_000062 here was a ghostly breadfruit tree named lei walo possibly meaning the eight wreaths or the eighth wreath the last wreath of leaves from the land of the living which would meet the eyes of the dying
012676_12930_000063 then the joy of the people surpassed all the pleasure of all the days before for they looked upon the two most beautiful beings they had ever seen and believed that these two would make glad each other's lives
012676_12930_000064 then the priest who had special care of this god would scrape off a little from the wood and put it in an ava cup and hold the cup before the god chanting a prayer for the life of the king the government and the people
012676_12930_000065 these spirits he claimed must be detected and punished a second form of ghost testing was proposed by akaaka the mountain god
012676_12930_000066 as he entered the under-world he again tasted the food of the gods and he felt himself growing stronger and stronger he took a magic war-club and a spear out of the cane given by the gods ghostly warriors tried to hinder his entrance into the different districts of the dark land
012676_12930_000067 there was one chief who was very skilful in waving kahilis or feather fans over any one and shaking the powder of death into the food from the moving feathers
012676_12930_000068 day after day the rejoicing of the people was heard by the young chief at last he sent a trusty retainer to learn the cause of the tumult the messenger reported that he had found certain tabu surf waters of the kona beach and had seen a very high chiefess
012676_12930_000069 the father was very sorrowful and heavyhearted as he went on his way to his desolate home he searched for the body of his boy and at last found it he saw too that the story of the gods was true for partly eaten bananas filled the mouth which was set in death
012676_12930_000070 if a wandering spirit could interest someone to render speedy aid the ancient hawaiians thought that a human being could place the spirit back in the body certain prayers and incantations were very effective in calling the spirit back to its earthly home
012676_12930_000071 the chief sorcerer fell dead by the side of the calabash by means of which he had hoped to destroy the friends of the rainbow maiden in this trial of ghosts the two most powerful methods of making a test as far as known among the ancient hawaiians were put in practice
012676_12930_000072 a ghost walking upon them could not make any impression untorn leaves would condemn mahana to the ovens to be baked alive and the spirit catchers would be called by the sorcerers to seize the escaped ghost and carry it back to spirit-land
012676_12930_000073 kahala the rainbow maiden was thus restored several times by the owl god but with this last failure it seemed to be certain that the body would grow cold and stiff before the spirit could return the spirit hastened to and fro in great distress trying to attract attention
012676_12930_000074 were not surprised when she threw a mantle around herself and left them to go away alone into the shadows she wandered from place to place among the groups of ghosts looking for hiku
012676_12930_000075 the spirits of the dead chiefs challenged him when he passed their homes battle after battle was fought his magic club struck the warriors down and his spear tossed them aside sometimes he was warmly greeted and aided by ghosts of kindly spirit
012676_12930_000076 thus he went from place to place searching for his boy finding him at last as the hawaiians quaintly expressed it down in papa ku the established foundation of po
012676_12930_000077 another would have scrapings in his cloak and would drop them into whatever food his enemy was eating the spirit of death was supposed to reside in the wood of the poison god
012676_12930_000078 she called for hiku again and again she called but hiku was gone she heard his footsteps as his eager tread shook the ground
012676_12930_000079 or perhaps hiku had endured many dangers of the lower world by coming even in human form to find her and therefore must remain concealed the people around the king seeing her grief
012676_12930_000080 the story of kahala and her connection with the rainbows and waterfalls of manoa valley has been told from time to time in the homes of the nature-loving native residents of the valley
012676_12930_000081 or praying to death the hawaiians said perhaps the priests of kalai pahoa put poison in bananas or in taro it was believed that they scraped the body of the image and put the pieces in the food of the one they wished to pray to death
012676_12930_000082 kewalu was overcome by the thought that perhaps hiku was dead and was now among the ghosts but did not dare to incur the hatred of king milu by making himself known
012676_12930_000083 one night hiku rose up very quietly and passed out into the darkness as he began to climb toward the uplands the leaves of the trees rustled loudly in welcome the night birds circled around him and hastened him on his way but kewalu was awakened
012676_12930_000084 for if the ghosts discovered and captured him they would punish him with the severest torments and destroy all hope of returning to the upper-world hiku was determined to search the land of milu and find his bride and bring her back to his kona home by the sea
012676_12930_000085 the samoans had the same thought concerning the restoration of life to one who had become unconscious and had a special prayer which was known as a prayer of life by which the spirit was persuaded to return to its home
012676_12930_000086 kauhi was punished for his crimes against kahala he was baked alive in the imu prepared on his own land at waikiki his lands and retainers were given to kahala and mahana
012676_12930_000087 but he did not wish to take his sister-wife with him perhaps the omens of their childhood had revealed danger to kewalu if she left her home by the sea whenever he tried to steal away from her she would rush to him and cling to him persuading him to wait for new sports and joys
012676_12930_000088 the rain was falling all around her and the way was very rough and hard she slipped and fell again and again the ancient chant connected with the legend says
012676_12930_000089 at last she saw a noble young chief approaching he was mahana  the chief of the kamoiliili the spirit hovered over him and around him and tried to impress her anguish upon him mahana felt the call of distress and attributed it to the presence of a ghost
012676_12930_000090 he told her to wander around and yet to follow him 'til they came to the ieie vine which he had left hanging from the hole which opened to the upper world when hiku came to the place where the vine was hanging he took hold to see if ku his father was still carefully guarding the other end to pull him up when the right signal should be given
012676_12930_000091 choking and suffocating from the bananas of ghost land which he was compelled to continually force into his mouth the father caught the spirit of the boy and started back toward the upper-world but the ghosts surrounded him they tried to catch him and take the spirit away from him
012676_12930_000092 they have a story of a woman who like the rainbow maiden was restored to life several times the spirit of kahala was almost discouraged the shadows of real death were encompassing her and the feeling of separation from the body was becoming more and more permanent
012752_10300_000000 you'll have to take me on trust oh as far as i am concerned it's all right said marriott i know you wouldn't be ass enough to do a thing like that without a jolly good reason
012752_10300_000001 a sign-post informed him of three things by following road one he might get to brindleham and ultimately if he persevered to corden
012752_10300_000002 this is all rot you can't do a thing like this and then refuse to offer any explanation and expect things to go on just as usual i don't said gethryn i know there's going to be a row but i can't explain
012752_10300_000003 for his lucid directions vanished suddenly he gazed searchingly at the three roads but to single out one of them as straighter than the other two was a task that baffled him completely
012752_10300_000004 his progress was not rapid half an hour before his one wish had been to catch sight of a fellow being now when he would have preferred to have avoided his species men seemed to spring up from nowhere and every man
012752_10300_000005 the notice had changed to three miles and again to two when suddenly he felt that jarring sensation which every cyclist knows his back tire was punctured it was impossible to ride on he got off and walked he was still in his cricket clothes and the fact that he had on spiked boots did not make walking any the easier
012752_10300_000006 of them had a remark to make or a question to ask about the punctured tyre reserve is not the leading characteristic of an average yokel gethryn however refused to be drawn into conversation on the subject at last one
012752_10300_000007 more determined than the rest brought him to bay hoy mister stop called a voice gethryn turned a man was running up the road towards him he arrived panting what's up said the bishop you've got a puncture said the man pointing an accusing finger at the flattened tire
012752_10300_000008 the bishop passed through old inns with some way on his machine he had much lost time to make up a signpost bearing the legend anfield four miles told him that he was nearing his destination
012752_10300_000009 the first thing that caught his eye was the station clock with its hands pointing to five past four and then he realized that his uncle's train having left a clear half hour before his labours had all been for nothing
012752_10300_000010 the first person of whom he asked the way to the junction answered the riddle almost without thinking he left his machine out in the road and went on to the platform
012752_10300_000011 it's the other chaps i'm thinking about you'll find it jolly hard to put norris off i'm afraid he's most awfully sick about the match he fielded badly which always makes him shirty jephson too you'll have a bad time with jephson
012752_10300_000012 it looks so much better don't you think so why did they let you out goodbye and feeling a little more comfortable after this outburst he wheeled his bicycle on into anfield high street minds in the village of anfield worked with extraordinary rapidity
012752_10300_000013 monk in a recent conversation had taken him aback somewhat but his feelings on that occasion were not to be compared with what he felt on seeing the one person whom he least desired to meet standing at his side
012752_10300_000014 farnie was reading one of those halfpenny weeklies which with a nerve which is the only credible thing about them call themselves comic he did not see the bishop until the shadow falling across his paper caused him to look up it was not often that he found himself unequal to a situation
012752_10300_000015 the full bitterness of life came home to him he was turning away from the station when he stopped something else had caught his eye on a bench at the extreme end of the platform sat a youth and a further scrutiny convinced the bishop of the fact that the youth was none other
012752_10300_000016 his jaw dropped limply comic blitherings fluttered to the ground the bishop was the first to speak indeed if he had waited for farnie to break the silence he would have waited long
012752_10300_000017 oh said gethryn as they were about to mount there's that money i was forgetting out with it ten pounds had been the sum farnie had taken from the study six was all he was able to restore gethryn enquired after the deficit i gave it to monk said farnie
012752_10300_000018 farnie using his out of bounds adventures as a foundation worked up a highly artistic narrative of doings which if they had actually been performed would certainly have entailed expulsion he had judged gethryn's character correctly
012752_10300_000019 and lesser middlefold in the vale but on the subject of anfield and anfield junction the board was silent two courses lay open to him should he select a route at random or wait for somebody to come and direct him he waited
012752_10300_000020 this was not strictly true monk had not said he had hinted and he had hinted at flogging not expulsion why pursued the bishop what had you and monk been up to
012752_10300_000021 his one wish after the match was to have your gore and plenty of it nothing else would have pleased him a bit and think of the chaps in the house too just consider what a pull this gives monk and his mob over you the house will want some looking after now i fancy
012752_10300_000022 get up he said farnie got up come on farnie came go and get your machine said gethryn hurry up and now you will jolly well come back to beckford you little beast but before that could be done there was gethryn's back wheel to be mended this took time it was nearly half past four before they started
012752_10300_000023 to gethryn in his present frame of mind the mere mention of monk was sufficient to uncork the vials of his wrath what the blazes did you do that for what's monk got to do with it he said he'd get me sacked if i didn't pay him whined farnie
012752_10300_000024 as he rode on he tried to imagine what would happen in consequence of that desertion and he could not do it his crime was so far as he knew absolutely without precedent in the school history as they passed the cricket field he saw that it was empty stumps were usually drawn early
012752_10300_000025 if the matter had been simply a case for a flogging the bishop would have stood aside and let the thing go on against the extreme penalty of school law he felt bound as a matter of family duty to shield his relative
012752_10300_000026 and he saw a bad time coming for himself in the very near future either he must expose farnie which he had resolved not to do or he must refuse to explain his absence from the m c c match for by now there was not the smallest chance of his being able to get back in time for the visitors innings
012752_10300_000027 they had looked like making a big score when he had left the ground in which case public opinion would be more lenient towards him after a victory a school feels that all's well that ends well but it might on the other hand mean quite the reverse
012752_10300_000028 in the m c c match at the issue of the game was out of doubt as the marylebone men had trains to catch evidently this had happened today it might mean that the school had won easily
012752_10300_000029 where the dickens have you been all the afternoon what on earth did you go off like that for i'm sorry old chap said the bishop i can't tell you i shan't be able to tell anyone but man
012752_10300_000030 he put his machine up and hurried to the study several boys as he passed them looked curiously at him but none spoke to him marriott was in the study reading a book
012752_10300_000031 leaving the roads covered with small thorns it was the former of these circumstances that first made itself apparent for two miles the road ran straight but after that it was unexplored country the bishop being in both cricket and football teams had few opportunities for cycling
012752_10300_000032 do try and grasp the thing did they win rather by a wicket two wickets i mean we made two one three your bowling would just have done it gethryn sat down oh lord he said blankly this is awful but look here bishop continued marriott
012752_10300_000033 he always brought his machine to school but he very seldom used it at the beginning of the unexplored country an irresponsible person recommended him to go straight on he couldn't miss the road said he it was straight all the way
012752_10300_000034 one curved gently off to the right the other two equally gently to the left he dismounted and the feelings of gratitude which he had borne towards his informant
012752_10300_000035 gethryn thanked him rode on and having gone a mile came upon three roads each of which might quite well have been considered a continuation of the road on which he was already
012752_10300_000036 try atorealize what you've done do you grasp the fact that you've gone and got the school licked in the m c c match and that we haven't beaten the m c c for about a dozen years and that if you'd been there to bowl we should have walked over this time
012752_10300_000037 he was still in flannels and looked as if he had begun to change but had thought better of it as was actually the case hello he cried as gethryn appeared
012752_10300_000038 he went on waiting he waited a considerable time and at last just as he was about to trust to luck and make for much middlefold on the hill a figure loomed in sight a slow moving man who strolled down the old inns road at a pace which seemed to argue that he had plenty of time on his hands
012752_10300_000039 when he would have to meet norris and the rest it would have been bad in any case he did not care to think what would happen when he refused to offer the slightest explanation end of chapter nine
012752_10300_000040 then he looked earnestly at the bicycle and finally in perfect silence began to inspect the bishop again eh he said at length can you tell me the way to anfield anfield yes how do i get there the man perpent
012752_10300_000041 and they'll get it said gethryn if monk gives me any of his beastly cheek i'll knock his head off but in spite of the consolation which which such a prospect afforded him he did not look forward with pleasure to the next day
012752_10300_000042 i say can you tell me the way to anfield please said the bishop as he came up the man stopped apparently rooted to the spot he surveyed the bishop with a glassy but determined stare from head to foot
012752_10300_000043 and when he replied did so after the style of the late and great ollendorf old inns he said dreamily waving a hand down the road by which he had come be over there yes yes i know said gethryn was born at old inns i was continued the man
012752_10300_000044 i don't want to know the way to old inns he said desperately where i want to get is anfield anfield you know which way do i go anfield said the man then a bright flash of intelligence illumined his countenance
012752_10974_000000 a sad complaint isaiah makes christ's kingdom is foretold the woman's pride he doth deride christ's kingdom's a stronghold baroness on god's vineyard charged the prophet's lips are purged emmanuel comes of virgins when jesus by assyrians scourged
012752_10974_000001 paul's thanks for thessalonians faith be preached without deceit to them his love doth clearly prove describes the judgment grant and doth his duties treat
012752_10974_000002 a measuring line he sees sin resists joshua the priest seven laps two olive trees both sides a roll are curses writ
012752_10974_000003 chariots and crowns for priests the captives ask concerning fasts fasts shall be turn'd to feasts christ's riding on on us or hotels bids ask the lord for tales our christ jesus valiant christ jerusalem built again
012752_10974_000004 the priests of levi's line nafali asher ischukar the sons of benjamin charges of priests on levi's too souls overthrow and death king david's reign his mighty man his host he numbereth
012752_10974_000005 christ shall in trouble bring great joy a serious pride shall fall the branch of jesse with peace shall bless god praised is of all destruction speeds to babylon
012752_10974_000006 of filthiness vows trespasses divorce pledge leprosy good weights just stripes unmuscled box of first fruits with contrition twelve curses count on evil mind blessings in opposition
012752_10974_000007 david leaves the ark for uzzah's death twice beat the philistines whom the ark he brings and plays and sings his holy quire begins
012752_10974_000008 here moses calls to covenant he life and death propounds to joshua charge he gives at large his dying song rebounds
012752_10974_000009 he erects a temple in design rich preparation makes his messengers affronts he hears and rabbah smites and his for numbering people three days plague temples materials god the levites charge appoints at large and aaron's sons by lot
012752_10974_000010 gives orders for the singers lots on porters lot sets down till captain's ward as his lifeguard give charge to solomon and yields up life and crown
012752_10974_000011 at cyrus word the jews return the company that go god's house begun with mirth and moan is hindered by the foe but once again the work goes on by license from derius ezra is sent with royal grant and gifts for uses pious
012752_10974_000012 this is the field where hidden lies the pearl of price unknown that merchant is divinely wise who makes the pearl his own here consecrated water flows to quench my thirst of sin
012752_10974_000013 laden with guilt and full of fears i fly to thee my lord and not a glimpse of hope appears but in thy written word the volume of my father's grace does all my griefs assuage here i behold my saviour's face almost in every page
012752_10974_000014 a fire from heaven elijah brings to heaven in fire ascends elisha brings drink for three kings dead rises oil extends
012752_10974_000015 exiled are ten tribes for sin rabshika sin a cherub boosts god slays his host and hezekiah heals fierce wrath manasseh's sins provoke josiah good though only eight
012752_10974_000016 at peter's word the limbs restored which act the jews offends breathless for lies ananias and wife seven deacons are elected
012752_10974_000017 stephen doth plead is stoned till dead a magus is detected converted paul and dorcas raised cornelius questioned me it the christian name from antioch came peter from heaven finds a deceitful elymas struck blind
012752_10974_000018 jehu baal's priests and snares jewosh his reign mother slain the temple he prepares dead raised by elisha's bones good a messiah slain good azariah's leprosy king ahaz wicked reign
012752_10974_000019 here the fair tree of knowledge grows nor danger dwells therein this is the judge that ends the strife where wit and reason fail my guide to everlasting life through all this gloomy vill
012752_10974_000020 christ's mark on them that mourn for sins like coals are thrown about he doth complain so few remain his stuff he carries out daubing in prophets he reprieves god's heavy judgments for divine our word for no use good
012752_10974_000021 a gospel that write christ conceived his birth praise for the same his line described by joseph's side temptation and his fame
012752_10974_000022 first sighs then cries a sword a sword their sins all numbered be ahola and aholoba not for the dead mourns he god's wrath on ammon and four more and tyrus cruel sage her rich supply and misery for pride and sacrilege
012752_10974_000023 paul stoned at lystra rises he counsel craves decrees receives the jailor he baptizes encounters the athenians now at corinth meets with strife
012752_10974_000024 finds ephesus as barbarous brings eutychus to life first taken at jerusalem a just defence dogma escapes a plot to felix brought
012752_10974_000025 jerusalem plays the whore eagles large winged plant a vine it's our grips the father eats young lions taught to catch are caught forefather sends repeats
012752_10974_000026 do not the sabbath day profane honour thy father mother too take heed that thou no murder do from whore done keep thy body clean still not although thy state be mean bear not false witness shun that blood what is thy neighbour's covet not finis
012752_10974_000027 burnt offerings for sins unknown for sins premeditated all friends of peace and trespasses aaron is consecrated confirmed is aaron by god's flame
012752_10974_000028 he makes even him to quick goes before festus pleads appeals to king agrippa preaches is shipwrecked yet to land doth get at rome two years he teaches
012752_10974_000029 begins to call disciple aside preachers of bliss and woe centurion praised a dead man raised women their gifts bestow christ is transfigured benedict heels saints seventy martha warns
012752_10974_000030 blames pharisees for blasphemies rich fool designs new barns declares how all repentance need the dropsy he doth cure lost sheep and goat lost son home brought false steward rich man emperor
012752_10974_000031 but israel shall be loved net are two sticks the dead bones raised gog's army and design in his judgment read he buried gates measured by line length breadth and height of temple's rooms the chambers for each priest
012752_10974_000032 god's glorious rays fill all the place the prince's gate on the east measures of sanctuary lands laws for the prince ordained the waters glide from temple's side each tribe his land obtained
012752_10974_000033 exhorts us to forgive our foes tells of two men at prayers secias views christ weeps for juice as future fates declares for two small mites the widow praised for supper peter's fall the thief with christ in paradise
012752_10974_000034 performs his father's charge praise to be wise two harlots tries his wealth and wisdom large before hunt fits materials then up the temple sats with houses more and works good store the temple dedicates
012752_10974_000035 israel turns whore but judah more both charged to mend their fault because of sins plagues threatened are their foes doth god inspire threatens to do as to say that death they shall desire crimes and calamities bewail their heathen customs vein
012752_10974_000036 each man is curst that trusts in man god claims the potter's right by bottle broke forshews a stroke pa the prophet saints for tells the king a dismal siege on shallum judgments sad
012752_10974_000037 and he rebel wife hushai acts his part envious ahithophel hangs himself cried absalom is slain king comes in peace shews acts of grace sheba rebels again for gibeon's sake saul's sons are hanged king david's psalm of praise
012752_10974_000038 the covenant they do disobey why thrive the wicked train down by euphrates hides his belt god sends a grievous dearth to hear refuses samuel and moses forbids both grief and mirth
012752_10974_000039 covenants with god sends out his fleet queen sheba hears his fame by concubines and wives he sends ten tribes his son is claim doomed battles alter prophets slain jereboam here's heavens well the idols all by asa fall zimri himself doth kill
012752_10974_000040 by threats warns princes people priests exhort them to repent send many and great he doth relate and judgments to be sent captivity is nigh denounced for all their sins thereat for their most good and gratitude hypocrisy so great
012752_10974_000041 on prophets vain and priests prevain he sees figs good and bad gives warning of captivity is taken tried acquitted
012752_10974_000042 strange fire his wrath excites what sorts of meat may not be eat for child-birth the jew writes directions leprosy to no to cleanse it in what kiss offerings for less uncleannesses high priest in holy place eating of blood prohibited
012752_10974_000043 bids them christ eminent counts all things loss for christ and his cross content is with his state colossians paul to colossians christ describes bids angel worship we have exhort to love the things above their earnest prayers doth crave
012752_10974_000044 hanemil's field he buys jews sure return once more for tales freed slaves are brought in thrall to wine invites the ricabites the king doth burn the rule kept first in ward the prophet is then to the dungeon sent
012752_10974_000045 first peter saint peter urges godly ways on on obedience rites bids wives be meek and share alike and when christ's patience he displays to vigilance excites
012752_10974_000046 bishops and deacons qualifications their apostasy detects by what rules he must elders treat and widows and his health what sins to shun what must be done by him and men of wealth second timothy
012752_10974_000047 a son by prayer hannah obtains by eli's sons offend their doom god tells to samuel ark taken eli's end before the ark down dagon falls the ark again they bring jesus mourn for sins smite philistines the people ask a king
013009_13600_000000 at last she came to a castle where nothing was to be seen but cooks and bakers some running one way and some another and all so busy that they did not know what to do first while she was looking at this she heard a noise of hunters behind her and someone cried out make way for the duke of norway
013009_13600_000001 but then again he stood still and let the clown mount him once more by the way which the clown now would ride was a great pond of water of a good depth which covered the road
013009_13600_000002 what were that you was a-singing of maw'r the woman she were ashamed to let him hear what her darter had been a-doin so she sang stids o that my darter ha spun five
013009_13600_000003 oberon took robin by the hand and led him in a fair dance their musician had an excellent bagpipe made of a wren's quill and the skin of a greenland fly
013009_13600_000004 this pipe was so shrill and so sweet that a scottish pipe compared to it it would no more come near it than a jew's-harp doth to an irish harp after they had danced king oberon said to robin
013009_13600_000005 robin hearing this rose and went to him there were with king oberon many fairies all attired in green all these with king oberon did welcome robin goodfellow into their company
013009_13600_000006 whene'er you hear the piper blow round and round the fairies go and nightly you must with us dance in meadows where the moonbeams glance and make the circle hand in hand that is the law of fairyland where thou shalt see what no man knows while sleep the eyes of men doth close
013009_13600_000007 what's your pay says she that looked out with the corner of that's eyes and that said i'll give you three guesses every night to guess my name and if you hain't guessed it afore the month's up you shall be mine
013009_13600_000008 well she thought she'd sure be to guess that's name afore the month was up all right she says i agree all right that says an look how that twirled that's tail
013009_13600_000009 that won't do no harm if that don't do no good and she upped and told about the pies and the skeins and everything this is what i'll do says the little black thing i'll come to your window every morning and take the flax and bring it spun at night
013009_13600_000010 well the next day the king he took her into the room and there was that the flax and the day's vittles now there's the flax says he and if it ain't spun up this night off goes your head and then he went out and locked the door
013009_13600_000011 and with many endearing expressions of surprise and joy explained to her that he had long been in the power of a witch-wife whose spells over him were now happily ended by their once again meeting
013009_13600_000012 all was hurry and preparation in the castle and the marriage which took place happily ended the adventures of the black bull o' norroway and the wanderings of the king's daughter
013009_13600_000013 no sooner did he ride into the very middle of the pond than robin goodfellow turned himself into a fish and so left him with nothing but the pack saddle on which he was riding betwixt his legs meanwhile the fish swiftly swam to the bank and then robin changed to a naughty boy again ran away laughing ha ha
013009_13600_000014 the princess happy to be the means of breaking his second evil spell consented to marry him and the wicked witch-wife who fled that country afraid of the duke's anger has never since been heard of
013009_13600_000015 and who should ride past but the prince and a beautiful lady you may be sure her heart was now like to break and over again like to break and at this sad sight so she broke one of the nuts and out came a wee wife carting wool
013009_13600_000016 he'd hardly gone when there was a knocking on the window she upped and she oped it and there sure enough was the little old thing a setting on the ledge where's the flax says he here it be says she and she gonned it to him
013009_13600_000017 so marched they with their piper before to the fairy land there did king oberon show robin goodfellow many secrets which he never did open to the world and there in fairy land doth robin goodfellow abide now this many a long year
013009_13600_000018 what is that bill says she noo that ain't says he an he twirled his tail is that ned says she noo that ain't says he an he twirled his tail well is that mark says she
013009_13600_000019 no that ain't says he and he twirled his tail harder and away he flew well when her husband he come in there was the five skeins ready for him
013009_13600_000020 the pixy flower once upon a time there lived in devonshire two serving damsels called molly and sabina who were very fond of ribands and finery
013009_13600_000021 well in the evening a knockin' came again to the window she upped and she oped it and there were the little old thing with five skeins of flax on his arm here to be says he and he gonned it to her now what's my name says he
013009_13600_000022 look you here i want a wife and i'll marry your daughter but look you here says he eleven months out of the year she shall have all the vittles she likes to eat and all the gowns she likes to get and all the company she likes to have but the last month of the year she'll have to spin five skeins every day and if she don't
013009_13600_000023 once however it was forgotten and the pixies finding themselves disappointed by an empty bucket whisked upstairs to the maid's bedroom popped through the keyhole and began to exclaim aloud against the laziness and neglect of the damsels
013009_13600_000024 that says is that samble says she no it ain't that says a-well is it methusalem says she no
013009_13600_000025 and all the day the mother she set a-trying for to think of names to say to it when it come at night but she never hit on the right one and as it got toward the end of the month the impet that began for to look so maliceful and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess
013009_13600_000026 now sabina who lay awake and heard all this jogged her fellow-servant and proposed getting up immediately to put things straight but molly lazy girl who liked not being disturbed out of a comfortable nap pettishly declared that for her part she would not stir out of bed to please all the pixies in devonshire
013009_13600_000027 this babe was a boy and the fairies to show their pleasure brought many pretty things thither coverlets and delicate linen for his cradle and capons woodcock and quail for the christening at which there was so much good cheer that the clerk had almost forgot to say the babe's name robin goodfellow
013009_13600_000028 i see i shan't have for to kill you tonight my dear says he you'll have your vittles and your flax in the morning says he and away he goes well every day the flax and the vittles they was brought and every day that there little black impet used for to come to mornings and evenings
013009_13600_000029 when their mistress scolded them for spending more money than they ought upon such things they said the pixies were very kind to them and would often drop silver for their pleasure into a bucket of fair water which they placed for the accommodation of those little beings in the chimney corner every night before they went to bed
013009_13600_000030 the princess then went into the castle and asked to see the lady who no sooner saw the wee wifey so hard at work than she offered the princess anything in her castle for it
013009_13600_000031 sometimes they were invisible and sometimes took diverse shapes many mad pranks would they play as pinching of untidy damsels black and blue and misplacing things in ill-ordered houses but lovingly would they use good girls giving them silver and other pretty toys
013009_13600_000032 the good humoured sabina however got up filled the bucket and was rewarded by a handful of silver pennies found in it the next morning but long ere that time had arrived what was her alarm as she crept towards the bed to hear all the elves buzzing like so many angry bees
013009_13600_000033 once upon a time a great while ago when men did eat and drink less and were more honest and knew no knavery there was wont to walk many harmless spirits called fairies dancing in brave orders in fairy rings on green hills with sweet music
013009_13600_000034 which they would leave for them sometimes in their shoes other times in their pockets sometimes in bright basins and other clean vessels now it chanced that in those happy days a babe was born in a house to which the fairies did like well to repair
013009_13600_000035 and consulting as to what should be done to the lazy lazy lass who would not stir out of bed for their pleasure some proposed pinches nips and bobs others wanted to spoil her new cherry coloured bonnet and ribbons
013009_13600_000036 one talked of sending her the toothache another of giving her a red nose but this last was voted much too bad a punishment for a pretty young lass so tempering mercy with justice the pixies were kind enough to let her off with a lame leg
013009_13600_000037 after robin had travelled a good day's journey from his mother's house he sat down and being weary he fell asleep no sooner had slumber closed his eye-lids but he thought he saw many goodly proper little personages in antic measures tripping about him
013009_13600_000038 to take him with her to market or wheresoever she went or rode but this helped little or nothing for if he rode before her then he would make mouths and ill favored faces at those he met if he rode behind her then would he clap his hand on the tail so that his mother was weary of the many complaints that came against him
013009_13600_000039 which was to plague her for seven years and was only to be cured by a certain herb growing on dartmoor its long and learned and very queer and difficult name
013009_13600_000040 ah t'ain't that neither that says then that looks at her with that's eyes like a coal of fire and that says woman there's only tomorrow night and then you'll be mine and away it flew
013009_13600_000041 yet knew she not how to beat him justly for it because she never saw him do that which was worthy blows the complaints were daily so renewed that his mother promised him a whipping robin did not like that cheer and therefore to avoid it he ran away and left his mother a-sorrowing for him
013009_13600_000042 well she felt that horrid howsomeover she heard the king a-comin along the passage in he came an when he see the five skeins he says says he
013009_13600_000043 the elfin judge pronounced in a high and shrill voice it was a name of seven syllables seven being also the number of years decreed for molly's lameness sabina good-natured maid wish to save her fellow damsel so long a suffering tried with might and main to bear in mind the name of the strange herb
013009_13600_000044 so much for the birth and christening of little robin when robin was grown to six years of age he was so knavish that all the neighbours did complain of him for no sooner was his mother's back turned but he was in one knavish action or other so that his mother was constrained to avoid the complaints
013009_13600_000045 when as they sat at breakfast they heard the most dreadful bellowing at the door and what should it be but the black bull come for his bride you may be sure they were all terribly frightened at this for the black bull was one of the most horrible creatures ever seen in the world
013009_13600_000046 thou hast the power to change thy shape to horse to hog to dog to ape transformed thus by any means see none thou harmst but knaves and queens but love thou those that honest be and help them in necessity
013009_13600_000047 and cockleshell with sweet brier and bonfire and strawberry wine and columbine and when he had sung this over he fell to wondering what he should next turn himself into
013009_13600_000048 except that molly was to go lame on her right leg for seven long years unless an herb with a strange name could be got to cure her and lame molly went for nearly the whole of those seven years
013009_13600_000049 next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when he came for the flax and when night came she heard that a knockin' on the window panes she oped the window and that come right in on the ledge that were grinnin' from ear to ear an ooh that's tail were twirlin' round so fast
013009_13600_000050 so i got off my hobby and i went right quiet to the pit and i looked down well what should there be but the funniest little black thing you ever set eyes on and what was that a-doin on but that had a little spinning wheel and that were a spinning wonderful fast and a twirling that tail
013009_13600_000051 and the pride not only of her father and mother but of all in the land as it fell out the three princesses were talking one night of whom they would marry i would have no one lower than a king said the eldest princess the second would take a prince or a great duke even ha
013009_13600_000052 i shall kill her all right says the woman for she thought what a grand marriage that was and as for them five skeins when it came to time there'd be plenty o' ways to getting out of it and likeliest he'd have forgotten about it
013009_13600_000053 and as that span that sang nimmy nimmy not my name's tom tit tot well when the mother heard this she feared as if she could have jumped out of her skin for joy but she didn't say a word
013009_13600_000054 at length she dropped asleep and did not wake until the morning now whether sabina's head was like a sieve that lets out as fast as it takes in or if the overexertion to remember only caused her to forget cannot be determined but certain it is that when she opened her eyes she knew nothing at all about the matter
013009_13600_000055 i will give it to you said she only on condition that you put off for one day your marriage with the duke of norway and that i may go into his room alone tonight so
013009_13600_000056 ha said the youngest laughing you both are so proud now i would be content with the black bull o norroway well they thought no more of the matter till the next morning
013009_13600_000057 she said it over and over again tied a knot in her garter at every syllable as a help to memory and thought she had the word just as safe and sure as her own name and very possibly felt much more anxious about retaining the one than the other
013009_13600_000058 robin my only son and heir how to live take thou no care by nature thou hast cunning shifts which i'll increase with other gifts wish what thou wilt thou shall it have and for to fetch both fool and knave
013009_13600_000059 at length about the end of that time sabina and molly went out into the fields early one morning to pick mushrooms when a merry squint-eyed queer-looking boy started up all of a sudden just as molly went to pluck a fine big one and came tumbling head over heels towards her
013009_13600_000060 and withal he heard such music and he thought that orpheus that famous greek fiddler had he been alive compared to one of these had been but a poor musician
013009_13600_000061 as delights commonly last not long so did those end sooner than robin would willingly they should have done and for very grief he awakened and found by him lying a scroll wherein was written these lines following in golden letters
013009_13600_000062 the lord of the castle pressed them to stay though much he wondered at the lovely princess and her strange companion but as they went in among the guests the princess espied a pin sticking in the black bull's hide which she pulled out
013009_13600_000063 from that very moment she got well and lame molly became the best dancer in the whole town when she and sabina danced at the feast of mayday on the green
013009_13600_000064 then wished he for plum-pudding he straightway had it this liked him well and because he was weary he wished himself a horse no sooner was his wish ended but he was changed into as fine a nag as you need see
013009_13600_000065 far she travelled upon the black bull through many dreadful forests and lowly wastes till they came at last to a noble castle where a large company was assembled
013009_13600_000066 nimmy nimmy not yar name's tom tit tot well when that heard her that shrieked awful and away that flew into the dark and she never saw it no more
013009_13600_000067 take time woman that says next guess and you're mine and that stretched out that's black hands at her well she backed a step or two and she looked at it and then she laughed out and says she a pointing of her finger at it
013009_13600_000068 he held in his hand a green herb with a tiny yellow flower which some say was called inula helenium and he insisted upon striking molly with it on the lame leg
013009_13600_000069 and leapt and curveted as nimbly as if he had been in stable at rack and manger a full month then he wished himself a black dog and he was so then a green tree and he was so so from one thing to another till he was quite sure that he could change himself to anything whatsoever he liked
013009_13600_000070 then sent they one by one all the servants then the two eldest princesses but not one of them met with any better treatment than the old henwife and at last they were forced to send their youngest and favourite child
013009_13600_000071 robin having read this was very joyful yet longed he to know whether he had the power or not and to try it he wished for some meat presently a fine dish of roast veal was before him
013009_13600_000072 and the king and queen did not know how to save their daughter at last they determined to send him off with the old henwife so they put her on his back and away he went with her till he came to a great black forest when throwing her down he returned roaring louder and more frightfully than ever
013009_13600_000073 do thus and all the world shall know the pranks of robin goodfellow for by that name thou shall called be to age's last posterity and if thou keep my just command one day thou shall see fairy land
013009_13600_000074 you and bring the best of 'em best or worst says the gal i ate 'em all and you can't ha' one till that's come again well the woman she were wholly bate and she took her spinnin' to the door to spin and as she span she sang
013009_13600_000075 in the morning the old wifie gave her three nuts and she was not to break until her heart was like to break and o'er again like to break so showing her the way she bade god speed her and the princess once more sat out on her wearisome journey
013009_13600_000076 a thing answered the clown that shows the time of day why then said robin goodfellow be thou a clock and tell me what time of the day it is
013009_13600_000077 not none on 'em says the mother not none on 'em says she well come again or not come again says the woman i'll have one for supper but you can't if they ain't come says the gal but i can says she good
013009_13600_000078 and to the surprise of all there appeared not a frightful wild beast but one of the most beautiful princes ever beheld you may believe how delighted the princess was to see him fall at her feet and thank her for breaking his cruel enchantment
013009_13600_000079 mother says she put you them there pies on the shelf and leave em there a little and they'll come again she meant you know the crust would get soft but the gal she says to herself well if they'll come again i'll ate em now and she set to work and ate em all first and last
013009_13600_000080 there were great rejoicings in the castle at this but alas in the midst of them he suddenly disappeared and though every place was sought he was nowhere to be found
013009_13600_000081 thereupon full of delight at his new powers robin goodfellow set out eager to put them to the test as he was crossing a field he met with a red-faced carter's clown and called to him to stop friend quoth he what is a clock
013009_13600_000082 the horse being wild ran over dyke and hedge and the fellow after but to little purpose for the horse was too swift for him robin was glad for this occasion for now or never was the time to have his revenge
013009_13600_000083 i owe thee not so much service answered the clown again but because thou shalt think thyself beholden to me know that it is the same time of the day as it was yesterday at this time
013009_13600_000084 well come supper-time the woman she said go you and git one o them there pies i dare say they've come again now the gal she went an she looked but there weren't nothing but the dishes so back she came and says she no that ain't come again
013009_13600_000085 the princess from being filled with happiness was all but broken-hearted she determined however to seek through all the world for him and many weary ways she went but for a long long while nothing could she hear of her lover
013009_13600_000086 traveling once through a dark wood she lost her way and as night was coming on she thought she must now certainly die of cold and hunger but seeing a light through the trees she went on till she came to a little hut where an old woman lived who took her in and gave her both food and shelter
013009_13600_000087 these shrewd answers vexed robin goodfellow so that in himself he vowed to be revenged of the clown which he did in this manner robin goodfellow turned himself into a bird and followed this fellow who was going into a field a little from that place to catch a horse that was at grass
013009_13600_000088 duke of norway will ye no turn and speak to me though she sang this over and over again the duke never wakened and in the morning the princess had to leave him without his knowing she had ever been there
013009_13600_000089 she began to think about them there skeins and to wonder if he had them in mind but not one word did he say about them an she wholly thought he'd forgot them but the last day o the last month he takes her to a room she'd never sets eyes on afore
013009_13600_000090 presently robin shaped himself exactly like the horse that the clown followed and so stood right before him then the clown took hold of the horse's mane and got on his back but he had not ridden far when with a stumble robin hurled his rider over his head so that he almost broke his neck
013009_13600_000091 there weren't nothing in it but a spinning wheel and a stool and says he no my dear here you'll be shut in tomorrow with some vittles and some flax and if you ain't spun five skeins by the night your head will go off an away he went about his business
013092_10961_000000 as compared to marine for in the latter as is seen on sea beaches coral reefs or in the bottom of the seas examined by dredging wherever the individual shells are exceedingly numerous there rarely fails to be a vast variety of species
013092_10961_000001 some naturalists considering them as affording the strongest of all proofs in favor of the reality of species others on the contrary
013092_10961_000002 the solen and the cardium for example which are usually found in shallow water near the shore pierce through a soft bottom without injury to their shells and the pholas can drill a cavity through mud of considerable hardness
013092_10961_000003 some speculators were bold enough to affirm that certain simi or apes differed as little from the more savage races of men as those do from the human race in general
013092_10961_000004 hold abundance of carbonate of lime in solution and precipitate travertine or sometimes bind together the sand and gravel into solid sandstones and conglomerates
013092_10961_000005 that the varieties of plants arrange themselves under two general heads those produced by external circumstances and those formed by hybridity
013092_10961_000006 which in the character of its leaves and flowers approached most nearly to the garden onion but had the elongated bulbous root and smell of the leek
013092_10961_000007 for at a considerable distance from the present shores parallel lines of rolled stones and shells are seen rising one above the other like the seats of an amphitheatre
013092_10961_000008 but which lends no support whatever to the notion of a gradual transmutation of one species into another least of all of the passage in the course of many generations from an animal of a more simple to one of a more complex structure
013092_10961_000009 as inhabits the land or the waters of a river or a lake whereas in the other case there will be an admixture and most frequently a predominance of animals which inhabits the salt water
013092_10961_000010 that since the time of the romans there has been a general subsidence of the coast and bed of this sea in the same region to the amount of five feet so that the advance of the new-made land has not been so fast as it would have been had the level of the coast remained unaltered
013092_10961_000011 hunter's opinion the celebrated john hunter has observed that the true distinction of species must ultimately be gathered from their incapacity of propagating with each other and producing offspring capable of again continuing itself
013092_10961_000012 the antennae at the end of which are fine pencils of hair are the principal organs for swimming and are moved with great rapidity the animal resides within two small valves not unlike those of a bivalve shell and moults its integuments annually
013092_10961_000013 imbedding of cetacea it is not uncommon for the larger cetacea which can float only in a considerable depth of water to be carried during storms or high tides into estuaries or upon low shores where upon the retiring of high water
013092_10961_000014 and that a scale might be traced from apes with foreheads villanous low to the african variety of the human species and from that to the european
013092_10961_000015 every delta and sand-bar thus acquires solidity which often prevents streams from forcing their way through them so that their mouths are constantly changing their position
013092_10961_000016 these ancient lines of shingle are exactly similar to the present beaches in most bays and they often attain an elevation of forty or fifty feet above the present level
013092_10961_000017 after adducing various arguments to show that neither of these causes can explain the permanent diversity of plants indigenous in different regions he says in regard to the crossing of races
013092_10961_000018 recapitulation for the reasons therefore detailed in this and the two preceding chapters we may draw the following inferences in regard to the reality of species in nature
013092_10961_000019 the signs of a much greater depression anterior to the historical period have also been brought to light by an artesian well bored in eighteen forty-seven to the depth of more than four hundred feet which still failed to penetrate through the modern fluviatile deposit
013092_10961_000020 an admission fatal to the idea of its being a general law of nature that a few original types only should be formed and that all intermediate races should spring from the intermixture of those stocks
013092_10961_000021 the integument is composed of five spiral valves of a quadrangular form in chara hispida which abounds in the lakes of for fisha
013092_10961_000022 although they were well acquainted with those of aix and others are still more distant and attached great importance to them as they invariably did to all hot springs the waters of balaruc therefore must have formerly issued under the sea a common phenomenon on the borders of the mediterranean
013092_10961_000023 and the primary and volcanic mountains of central france and when at length it enters the mediterranean it discolors the blue waters of that sea with a whitish sediment for the distance of between six and seven miles throughout which space the current of fresh water is perceptible
013092_10961_000024 imbedding of the remains of marine plants and animals marine plants the large banks of drift seaweed which occur on each side of the equator in the atlantic pacific and indian oceans were before alluded to
013092_10961_000025 in regard however to the distribution of inorganic matter the deposits of lakes and seas are formed under very analogous circumstances
013092_10961_000026 resemble the tertiary argillaceous and calcareous marls of lacustrine origin in central france in both cases many of the genera of shells most abundant as limnea and planorbis are the same
013092_10961_000027 and at a low facial angle is frequently accompanied with inferiority of mental powers is certain but the attempt to trace a gradual scale of intelligence through the different species of animals accompanying the modifications of the form of the skull
013092_10961_000028 from a line drawn from st gingoulph to vevey gives a mean depth of somewhat less than six hundred feet and from that part of the rhone the fluviatile mud is always found along the bottom
013092_10961_000029 which intervenes between the rosetta and damietta branches is usually called the delta the coast line of which is about ninety miles in length
013092_10961_000030 appealing to them as countenancing the opposite doctrine that all the varieties of organization and instinct now exhibited in the animal and vegetable kingdoms may have been propagated from a small number of original types
013092_10961_000031 the same botanist remarks that vegetable hybrids when not strictly intermediate more frequently approach the female than the male parent species but they never exhibit characters foreign to both
013092_10961_000032 the species of these and many other tribes can sink when alarmed with considerable rapidity often to the depth of several feet and can also penetrate upwards again to the surface
013092_10961_000033 we may state therefore that the new strata annually produced are thrown down upon a slope about two miles in length so that notwithstanding the great depth of the lake
013092_10961_000034 analogous formations are in progress in the submarine tracts extending from the shetland isles to the north of ireland wherever soundings can be procured
013092_10961_000035 and in regard to other classes of organic remains there must be the closest analogy as i shall endeavor more fully to explain when speaking of the imbedding of plants and animals in recent deposits
013092_10961_000036 and on the advance of the delta they continued to flow out through the new deposits among the more direct proofs of the increase of land we find that mese described under the appellation of mesua collis by pomponius mela
013092_10961_000037 near the northern borders of the basin the isonzo tagliamento and many other streams are forming immense beds of sand and some conglomerate for here some high mountains of alpine limestone approach within a few miles of the sea
013092_10961_000038 he was unwilling however to admit that the horse and the ass were of the same species because some rare instances had been adduced of the breeding of mules although he maintained that the wolf the dog and the jackal
013092_10961_000039 some wallflowers and pinks had been growing in a garden in a dry sunny situation and their stigmas had been ripened so as to be moist and to absorb pollen with avidity although their anthers were not yet developed
013092_10961_000040 is a mere visionary speculation it has been found necessary to exaggerate the sagacity of the ape tribe at the expense of the dog and strange contradictions have arisen in the conclusions deduced from the structure of the elephant
013092_10961_000041 they are stranded thus a narwal monodon monoceros was found on the beach near boston in lincolnshire in the year eighteen hundred the whole of its body buried in the mud
013092_10961_000042 from the above considerations it appears that species have a real existence in nature and that each was endowed at the time of its creation with the attributes and organization by which it is now distinguished
013092_10961_000043 the bed of the river itself says sir j g wilkinson undergoes a gradual increase of elevation varying in different places and always lessening in proportion as the river approaches the sea
013092_10961_000044 which the conchiferous mollusks do not the cast off shells resembling thin scales and occurring in countless myriads in many ancient freshwater marls imparts to them a divisional structure like that so frequently derived from plates of mica
013092_10961_000045 were all of one species because he had found by two experiments that the dog would breed both with the wolf and the jackal and that the mule in each case would breed again with the dog
013092_10961_000046 these stigmas became impregnated by pollen blown from some other adjacent plants of the same species but had they been of different species and not too remote in their organization mule races must have resulted
013092_10961_000047 some anatomists being disposed to deny the quadruped the intelligence which he really possesses because they found that the volume of his brain was small in comparison to that of the other mammalia
013092_10961_000048 and stated by him to be nearly an island is now far inland notre-dame du port also was a harbor in eighteen ninety-eight but is now a league from the shore psalmodi was an island in eight fifteen and is now two leagues from the sea
013092_10961_000049 a fisherman going to his boat saw the horn and tried to pull it out when the animal began to stir itself an individual of the common whale balna mysticetus
013092_10961_000050 in the time of the romans the hot baths of monfalcone were on one of several islands of alpine limestone between which and the mainland on the north was a channel of the sea about a mile broad
013092_10961_000051 this increase of elevation in perpendicular height is much smaller in lower than in upper egypt and in the delta it diminishes still more so that according to an approximate calculation the land about elephantine
013092_10961_000052 deltas of inland seas having thus briefly considered some of the lacustrine deltas now in progress we may next turn our attention to those of inland seas
013092_10961_000053 the recent strata of lacustrine origin above alluded to are of very small extent but analogous deposits on the grandest scale are forming in the great canadian lakes as in lakes superior and huron
013092_10961_000054 no crossbreeds would ever have been produced much less those prolific races which we now recognize as distinct species
013092_10961_000055 the new deposits are inclined at so slight an angle that the dip of the beds would be termed in ordinary geological language horizontal
013092_10961_000056 which measured seventy feet came ashore near peterhead in sixteen eighty-two many individuals of the genus balnoptera have met the same fate it will be sufficient to refer to those cast on shore near burnt island
013092_10961_000057 several old lines of towers and seamarks occur at different distances from the present coast all indicating the successive retreat of the sea for each line has in its turn become useless to mariners
013092_10961_000058 this channel is now converted into a grassy plain which surrounds the islands on all sides among the numerous changes on this coast we find that the present channel of the isonzo is several miles to the west of its ancient bed in part of which at ronchi
013092_10961_000059 course of the po the po affords an instructive example of the manner in which a great river bears down to the sea the matter poured into it by a multitude of tributaries descending from lofty chains of mountains
013092_10961_000060 while others were inclined to magnify extravagantly the superiority of his intellect because the vertical height of his skull is so great when compared to its horizontal length
013092_10961_000061 where beds of sand and clay are seen inclosing shells of existing species the chara also plays the same part in the subaqueous vegetation of north america as in europe
013092_10961_000062 the strata probably consist of alternation of finer and coarser particles for during the hotter months from april to august
013092_10961_000063 in these cases however it may be observed that there was always one parent at least of pure breed and no proof was obtained that a true hybrid race could be perpetuated
013092_10961_000064 when indeed we consider how busily some insects have been shown to be engaged in conveying anther dust from flower to flower
013092_10961_000065 in regard moreover to the permanent propagation of hybrid races among animals insuperable difficulties present themselves when we endeavor to conceive the blending together of the different instincts and properties of two species
013092_10961_000066 i observed along the borders of several freshwater lakes in the state of new york a luxuriant crop of this plant in clear water of moderate depth
013092_10961_000067 the changes gradually effected in the great plain of northern italy since the time of the roman republic are considerable extensive lakes and marshes have been gradually filled up as those near placentia parma and cremona
013092_10961_000068 a fact of which i believe no examples are yet recorded either in regard to mixtures of the horse and ass or any other of the mammalia
013092_10961_000069 which may be well conceived when we state that the tower of tignaux erected on the shore so late as the year seventeen thirty-seven is already a mile remote from it
013092_10961_000070 and at alloa recorded by sibbald and neill the other individual mentioned by sibbald as having come ashore at boyne in banffshire was probably reserbek
013092_10961_000071 different races of men are all of one species it would be relevant to our subject if we were to enter into a farther discussion on these topics because even if a graduated scale of organization and intelligence could have been established
013092_10961_000072 when the snows melt the volume and velocity of the river are greatest and large quantities of sand mud vegetable matter and driftwood are introduced
013092_10961_000073 so that the lead cannot be drawn off without some vertebra being attached this bone bed as it was called by our surveyors is three miles and a half in length and forty-five fathoms under water and contains a few shells intermingled with the bones
013092_10961_000074 so as to insure the preservation of the intermediate race the common mule when obtained by human art may be protected by the power of man
013092_10961_000075 and many have been drained naturally by the deepening of the beds of rivers deserted river courses are not unfrequent as that of the serio morto which formerly fell into the adda in lombardy
013092_10961_000076 the supposed original depth of the head of lake and nearly two miles in length inclined at a very slight angle in the meantime a great number of small deltas are growing around the borders of the lake at the mouths of rapid torrent
013092_10961_000077 by the confluence of the rhone and the currents of the mediterranean driven by winds from the south sandbars are often formed across the mouths of the river
013092_10961_000078 rendering the bottom as verdant as a grassy meadow here therefore we may expect some of the tough seed vessels to be preserved in mud just as we detect them fossil in the eocene strata of hampshire
013092_10961_000079 proceeding from some accidental cause or rather to speak more philosophically from some general law not yet understood but which may not be permitted permanently to interfere with those laws of generation by which species may in general
013092_10961_000080 but in a wild state it would not have precisely the same wants either as the horse or the ass and if in consequence of some difference of this kind it strayed from the herd it would soon be hunted down by beasts of prey and destroyed
013092_10961_000081 for this reason the alluvial deposit does not cause the delta to protrude rapidly into the sea although some ancient cities are now a mile or more inland
013092_10961_000082 or in the neighborhood of paris and many other countries imbedding of freshwater species in estuary and marine deposits
013092_10961_000083 if we take some genus of insects such as the bee we find that each of the numerous species have some difference in its habits its mode of collecting honey
013092_10961_000084 why they are almost entirely wanting in our own country i have already adverted to the eight regions of different depths in the aegean sea
013092_10961_000085 the diminution in the perpendicular thickness of the deposit is lessened in a much greater decreasing ratio that in the straightened valley of central and upper egypt owing to the great extent east and west over which the inundation spreads
013092_10961_000086 in the british seas the shells and other organic remains lie in soft mud or loose sand and gravel whereas in the bed of the adriatic donati found them frequently enclosed in stone of recent origin
013092_10961_000087 in thus providing for their own progeny these insects assist materially the process of fructification few persons need be reminded
013092_10961_000088 the dead bodies of the larger cetacea are sometimes found floating on the surface of the waters as was the case with the immense whale exhibited in london in eighteen thirty-one and the carcass of a sea-cow or lamantine
013092_10961_000089 be prevented from becoming blended if for example we discovered that the progeny of a mule race degenerated greatly in the first generation in force sagacity or any attributes necessary for its preservation in a state of nature we might infer
013092_10961_000090 the po also itself has often deviated from its course having after the year thirteen ninety deserted part of the territory of cremona and invaded that of parma its old channel being still recognizable and bearing the name of po monto
013092_10961_000091 if then we could obtain a section of the accumulation formed in the last eight centuries we should see a great series of strata probably from six hundred to nine hundred feet thick
013092_10961_000092 should the fact be hereafter ascertained that two mules can propagate their kind we must still inquire whether the offspring may not be regarded in the light of a monstrous birth
013103_12446_000000 on a still bright day like this it makes one realize what the saints meant by holy calm i think i should like to live in such a place and never hear another echo from the outside world i suppose you would just like to add dear mosley to the establishment angelica suggested
013103_12446_000001 see i will write at once he sat down and began my dear george and then looked up at his wife to see if she was not already relieved mrs beale could not speak but she stroked his head once or twice in acknowledgment of his great kindness
013103_12446_000002 as they drove back to morne lady claudia scolded lady fulda for so weakly allowing angelica to have her own way in everything i thought you would agree with me that sweet womanly influence at the palace would do her good lady fulda answered in an injured tone
013103_12446_000003 sweet womanly nonsense said lady claudia she will twist them all round her little finger and turn the whole place upside down before she leaves
013103_12446_000004 that such deep devotion between father and daughter was an elevating and beautiful sight which it was a privilege to witness and tried to persuade herself that they were all extremely happy in the tranquil joy of this peaceful evening spent alone together with the world shut out
013103_12446_000005 and letting the paper lie on his lap he sat silent also and serious feeling without in any way knowing that all was not well mrs beale was also depressed although she assured herself again and again
013103_12446_000006 well enough it would be a noble thing to disregard the law and he gave her seventy-five pounds for that i found her letter to menteith about it and i've got
013103_12446_000007 her you know but tell him why we want him to come i am nervous about her mrs beale's face quivered and she burst into tears as she spoke oh my dear i am sure there is no need to agitate yourself the bishop exclaimed now do now don't clearly
013103_12446_000008 it here tapping the bosom of her gown he took me abroad when he wanted to get rid of me and left me in paris with five pounds in my pocket but it was enough to bring me back i was sick when i landed at dover and they send me to the workhouse
013103_12446_000009 and filled the air about it with balsamic fragrance edith and angelica left the carriage at the end of the lane and walked up what a lovely spot edith exclaimed
013103_12446_000010 that child is not right the bishop said when edith had gone to bed have you noticed her face i don't like the look of it at all not at all isn't that rather unkind dear misses beale replied i always recovered in time you never were as ill as the poor child evidently is he answered
013103_12446_000011 menteith came after me and my sister wanted money so she made me believe that he couldn't marry me because there was a law to prevent it she said he loved me and if i loved him
013103_12446_000012 well i'll stay angelica decided aunt fulda i'm going to stay here for a few days with edith she answered very well dear her aunt meekly rejoined are you going to stay now yes tell elizabeth to bring me some bathing apparel
013103_12446_000013 i don't know mother edith answered shortly she had never before in her life spoken to her mother in that tone and the latter was surprised and hurt for a moment but then pursued herself that some irritability was only natural if the child were out of health
013103_12446_000014 but the conversation flagged and mrs beale from wondering why edith was so uncommunicative found herself involuntarily repeating the bishop's observation that child is not right and the question what is the matter with your face dearest slipped from her unawares
013103_12446_000015 but on the way to it she had to pass the room which had been hers as a girl the door was open and she went in nothing was changed there but the moment she entered she felt that there was a direful difference in herself
013103_12446_000016 elizabeth pursed up her lips with an air of reserve you don't think so angelica said she had seen the maid's face in the mirror before her what is he like he's exactly like the bishop miss angelica broke into a broad smile
013103_12446_000017 looking strangely haggard won't you come in and sit down a bit no thank you it is nothing edith answered steadily recovering herself
013103_12446_000018 now hush said nurse griffiths the lord saved you from such a sin the lord said the girl derisively if the lord had been inclined to help me he wouldn't have waited till i came to murder it wasn't the lord saved me
013103_12446_000019 will you come and sit with me on that seat she said to louise indicating a rustic bench under an old pear tree at the end of the garden i want to talk to you nurse griffiths and angelica remained in the porch
013103_12446_000020 as missus beale said to the bishop afterward the dear naughty child quite took her out of herself angelica had never been in the same house with a baby before and she was all interest whatever defects of character the new woman may eventually acquire
013103_12446_000021 she will say that and i can't cure her nurse griffiths declared but i'm afraid you're feeling the heat ma'am and you are not very strong she added addressing edith who was clinging to the porch for support
013103_12446_000022 lack of maternal affection will not be one of them have you seen the baby she asked elizabeth when the later was brushing her hair for dinner he had not been visible during the afternoon but angelica had thought of him incessantly yes miss elizabeth answered is he a pretty boy angelica wanted to know
013103_12446_000023 and when i got well again i told them i had friends in morningquest and they gave me a little help to get there but i had to tramp most of the way and i was weak i couldn't have got as far as i did if i hadn't wanted to kill them both
013103_12446_000024 and at once made proper allowances edith had got up when she had spoken and left the room she was occupying one of the state departments of the palace then
013103_12446_000025 things went merrily at the palace for the rest of the day mrs orton beg called mr kilroy of ilverthorpe between whom and angelica there were always an excellent understanding and she entertained him now with observations and antidotes which so amused edith that
013103_12446_000026 and retired to his library much disturbed but missus beale determined not to worry herself and managed to dismiss the subject from her mind until next day when she was sitting alone with her daughter in the morning room upstairs they were both working
013103_12446_000027 or i am much mistaken well dear if you would only make angelica do what you wish while you are here to influence her i should be thankful lady fulda rejoined with gentle dignity lady claudia said no more
013103_12446_000028 you generally know all the mischiefs that's going miss why did you bring her here i wish i had known this then said angelica whose heart was thumping painfully if any harm comes of it
013103_12446_000029 the nurse was undressing the child when they entered and edith sat watching her she was already dressed for the evening and looked worse in an elaborate toilet than she had done in her morning dress
013103_12446_000030 i shall always think it was my fault well there is no call to do that if you didn't know the woman answered i see she was a great lady myself but i never thought it was her ah but it's the dirty men makes the misery on the way back edith stopped the carriage
013103_12446_000031 a stranger would have found it hard to believe that only the year before she had been radiantly healthy and beautiful the puzzled pathetic expression again in her eyes
013103_12446_000032 and then remembering the rapture with which she had been wont to kneel at his feet she looked again the recollection of the once dear delight
013103_12446_000033 tantalized her now however because it did not renew it and turning from the picture impatiently she went to the window and there sank on to the seat from whence she had looked out at the moonlight and the shadows on the night
013103_12446_000034 at herself in the glass what a little old man baby she exclaimed yes miss with a cold in his head the maid said seriously when she was dressed angelica went to make his acquaintance
013103_12446_000035 who is that lady miss the nurse asked when edith was out of hearing lady menteith angelica answered the woman threw up her hands ohh lord have mercy upon her and upon us what a cruel cruel shame she's showing her the letter ah it's enough to kill her
013103_12446_000036 the sad benignant christ with tender sympathetic eyes looked down upon her from the picture on the wall but she returned the glance as indifferently at first
013103_12446_000037 then more tears came because he was so very kind and finally she was obliged to go to her own room to recover herself as the day wore on however she became reassured
013103_12446_000038 at the telegraph office and despatched a message to her husband to come to her come at once they only arrived in time to dress hurriedly for dinner and when they went down to the drawing room they found dr galbraith there with the bishop and mrs beale
013103_12446_000039 on the way she discovered her particular friend the bishop going furtively in the same direction and slipped her hand through his arm we'll go together she said confidently taking it for granted that his errand was the same as her own
013103_12446_000040 i have such terrible terrible thoughts i can't control them i can't keep them away the torment of my mind is awful i could kill myself mrs beale turned pale
013103_12446_000041 that wearies my brain she said and began to pace about the room up and down up and down her mother watched her anxiously angelica closed the piano dr galbraith and the bishop
013103_12446_000042 as on other occasions before she realized what she was doing suddenly however she came to her senses and fled in affright to the morning room where she threw herself down on her knees
013103_12446_000043 but she did not look at her husband nor he at her for the first time in their married life poor souls they were afraid to meet each other's eyes end of chapter six reading by sundip piridius
013103_12446_000044 and they were burnt out past all hope of rekindling them even the remembrance of what her feelings had been eluded her and she could think of nothing but after experiences experiences of her married life and those precisely which it was not wise to recall
013103_12446_000045 and as his gaze wandered from one to the other it was easy to believe that he was asking each dumbly why had he ever been born is that edith's baby angelica exclaimed in her astonishment and horror under her breath
013103_12446_000046 they were not exactly thoughts however that occupied her but emotions to which looking out on the sunlit garden with rounded eyes and pupils dilated to the uttermost she had unconsciously lent herself for some time
013103_12446_000047 edith complained impatiently that those things always made her melancholy then angelica played some bars of patriotic music stirring in the extreme but edith stopped her again
013103_12446_000048 as she watched the child she had no smile for him and uttered no baby words to him-nor had he a smile for her he was old old already and exhausted with suffering
013103_12446_000049 and in the drawing room after dinner she could not keep still mrs beale asked angelica to play and angelica tried something soothing at first but
013103_12446_000050 where have you two been the whole afternoon the letter ask we had tea in the library at fountain towers angelica answered easily and obtained some useful knowledge from your books dr galbraith looked hard at her i wonder what devilment you have been up to
013103_12446_000051 slipping her hand from the bishop's arms she had seen enough in one momentary glance and she fled from the room and the bishop followed her mrs beale was there when they entered and standing behind her daughter's chair
013103_12446_000052 beside her mother impetuously and buried her face in her lap take care dear child mrs beale exclaimed you will hurt yourself mother mother edith cried
013103_12446_000053 he thought but angelica's manner was as unconcerned as possible edith's was not however her face was flushed her eyes unnaturally glittering and she became excited about trifles and talked loudly at table
013103_12446_000054 sharply as he shook hands with her god bless you my dear child the bishop said when she kissed him and his lips moved afterward for some seconds as if he were in prayer her mother followed her out of the room and then silence settled
013103_12446_000055 i am afraid you are very weak dear child the poor lady bravely responded weakness makes people unhealthy minded you must see the doctor and have a tonic the doctor again edith groaned
013103_12446_000056 the french girl was standing at the door of the cottage with a child in her arms is nurse griffiths in angelica asked edith looked at the child
013103_12446_000057 and almost shook her in her consternation edith darling do you know what you are saying she demanded edith looked into her face in a bewildered way no mother what was it she answered
013103_12446_000058 angelica shivered and was about to break the spell of silence boldly in her energetic way when suddenly and apparently overhead a heavy bell tolled once
013103_12446_000059 came in from the dining room and then edith declared that driving in open air had made her so sleepy she must go to bed angelica noticed that dr galbraith scrutinized her face
013103_12446_000060 on the three who were left the bishop was obviously uneasy doctor galbraith's good looking plainness was softened by a serious expression which added much to the attractiveness of his strong kind face
013103_12446_000061 pray dearest she ejaculated i do i do mother edith wailed but they mingle with my prayers god is a demon isn't he mrs beale threw her arms around her daughter
013103_12446_000062 edith seemed much refreshed by her sleep and in the afternoon when the three ladies came from the castle to call upon her bringing angelica with them she quite roused up
013103_12446_000063 then all outward sign of mrs beale's agitation subsided some shocks stun and some strengthen and steady us the piteous appeal in edith's eyes the puzzle and the pain of her face as she made an effort to recall her words and understand them had the latter effect upon her mother
013103_12446_000064 and under the soothing influence of her loving touch edith's countenance began to relax when is mosley coming her mother said at last edith's face contracted again and she rose to her feet i don't know mother she answered coldly
013103_12446_000065 then came a pause and then the chime rolled through the room a deafening volume of sound in long reverberations from amidst which the constant message
013103_12446_000066 it has been nothing but the doctor and tonics ever since i have been married what does he say in the matter exactly mrs beale asked all his endeavour seems to be not to say what is the matter exactly edith replied mrs beale reflected caressing her daughter the while
013103_12446_000067 but with pain and perplexity at her heart i am sure it is the journey she said it has quite upset you your nerves are all jarred you must really lie down for a little
013103_12446_000068 edith had not been on that road since her marriage and when they passed the place where she and her mother had seen the young french girl lying insensibly on the pathway with her baby
013103_12446_000069 the chime rang out at this moment and she frowned as she listened to it i wish those bells could be stopped she exclaimed they deafen me mrs beale had also risen from her chair smiling mechanically
013103_12446_000070 beside her she was reminded of the incident and described it to angelica adding i have so often longed to know what became of her i can tell you said angelica i know her quite well by sight she is living with
013103_12446_000071 nurse griffiths in honeysuckle cottage on dr galbraith's estate nurse griffiths told us he bought her there one day in his carriage very ill
013103_12446_000072 see dearest here on the couch and keep quite quiet she arranged the cushions come dear she urged like a good child i'll cover you up edith had been accustomed to this kind of gentle compulsion all her life
013103_12446_000073 it was only the cathedral clock striking the hour but it sounded portentously through the solemn stillness of the night and with quickened attention they looked up and listened slowly the big bell boomed forth ten strokes
013103_12446_000074 disentangled itself as it were but distinctly although to each listener with a different effect
013103_12446_000075 and she has been there ever since he always gets angry and snaps at you if he's bothered about anybody who's ill or unfortunate and diavolo and i met him that day
013103_12446_000076 coming away from the cottage and he spoke to us so shortly we were sure there was something bad the matter so we went to see what it was and nurse griffiths said she was french i've not been there since but i expect it's the same girl shall we stop and see
013103_12446_000077 and she yielded to it now she began to feel more like herself i knew i should be better with you mother she said sighing and then she reached up her arm
013103_12446_000078 we pass the end of the lane where the cottage is edith agreed eagerly she said it would be a relief to her mind to know that the girl was well cared for and happy oh everybody is well cared for and happy on dr galbraith's estate said angelica his tenants worship him
013103_12446_000079 it should have been running about by that time but it was small and rickety with bones that bent beneath its weight slight as it was edith had looked at it first with some interest but its unhealthy appearance repelled her
013103_12446_000080 had turned her face to the wall and soon appeared to be asleep then her mother went down to the library the bishop rose from his writing table when she entered
013103_12446_000081 it was a habit of his to be polite to his wife i think you were right last night about edith she said she is not as she should be write to dr galbraith ask him to come here tomorrow ask him to dine and stay the night as if it were only an ordinary visit not to alarm
013103_12446_000082 and they would rather be abused by him than complimented by anybody else the cottage covered with the honeysuckle from which it took its name stood in a large old-fashioned garden at the edge of a fir plantation which sheltered it from the northeast wind at the back
013103_12446_000083 and drew her mother's face down to hers kiss me mother and tell me you forgive me for being impatient dear child you are not impatient her mother answered adding to herself as she returned to her seat i hope it is only impatience
013103_12446_000084 what angelica a grown up young lady in a long dress she exclaimed where is diavolo we had a slight difference of opinion this morning angelica answered stiffly dear me that is a new thing mrs beale commented no it's not angelica contradicted
013103_12446_000085 unless making herself unusually agreeable was a symptom of commiseration and in this she succeeded so thoroughly that when the others rose to go edith did not feel inclined to part with her
013103_12446_000086 when the bishop came up to the drawing room after dinner and settled himself in his accustomed easy chair edith had crept to his side and slipping her hand through his arm sat leaning her head against his shoulder
013103_12446_000087 chapter six the beales had not seen their daughter and grandson for some months and the appearance of both was a shock to them they said not a word to each other at first but neither of them could help looking at edith furtively from time to time on the evening of her arrival
013103_12446_000088 mrs beale remonstrated you would if you were with us i expect angelica answered and then she turned her attention to edith but not by a sign did she betray the slightest consciousness of the latter's disfigurement
013103_12446_000089 she managed however to speak to the girl about it kindly what is your baby's name she asked mosley menteith was the answer for a moment it seemed to edith as if all the world
013103_12446_000090 i called him after his father then didn't i she was saying to the baby in good english but with a french accent and he's to grow up and be a big strong fellow and beat his father isn't he for he's a bad bad man
013103_12446_000091 won't you stay with me here for a few days she entreated angelica reflected it would do him good i should think she said at last i should think it would edith agreed laughing did i speak said angelica as
013177_11313_000000 a loyal wife by  your lordship i am grateful for the two pearls you offer me but i tremble with uncertainty what shall i say tchang tsi
013177_11313_000001 when the swallows returned this year no one heard their twittering speech she who had rolled up the screen for them was there no more in the amber twilight a soft pattering rain
013177_11313_000002 now that wooded hill a head of waving woman's hair is black and see a crescent comb of silver moon sad and happy i pick up my lute and sing until the stars grow pale
013177_11313_000003 the south wind by anonymous the sweet smell of the south wind can calm the tempers of my people the sweet rain of the south wind can nourish the grain fields of my people
013177_11313_000004 their hot colors will rewarm your heart parting in autumn by li yung the crickets are cold their song is sad outside the pavilion the last shower drops patter down hollow the happy farewell party
013177_11313_000005 we linger while the riverboat loaded with sandalwood is waiting for me to go aboard we stand hand in hand we stand without talking we stand with tears to think that i must travel a thousand miles of mist and rain and water
013177_11313_000006 the black raven flies from its icy roost i dream of you will ever i see you again ah night of sorrowing heart
013177_11313_000007 lowering it i remember all my debts and errors an elegy by huang chan last best-loved daughter
013177_11313_000008 the breath of spring by anonymous the breath of spring is everywhere in every face the mimosa casts its delicate shadows my dreams are butterflies the fragrance of the quince intoxicates like wine
013177_11313_000009 then the wind stopped the clouds turned dark and night came on like ink my old cotton quilt was cold as iron my sweet son tossed in his sleep
013177_11313_000010 on the road a chariot wheel is grating now for the wine flask let my troubles fly away joining the insects abuzz in the late sun garden
013177_11313_000011 one last time let you sing me the sad song of the dead bird under the snow then i will take boat and sail down the river yu cheu whose waters divide to flow half east half west
013177_11313_000012 why do you cry young girls about to marry why do you cry perhaps you will marry a loyal man with a faithful heart who will say to you solemnly over and over we will grow old together
013177_11313_000013 the world around us by li po dread lord do not wave your scepter it is bejeweled dear dancer do not whirl your scarves they are orchid flowered pale poet do not flaunt your heart it is radiant with love
013177_11313_000014 a swarm of boys from the village laughed at me because i am feeble o insolence stealing my thatch and carrying it off to play with in the bamboo grove i screamed at them with a dry tongue but they laughed at me and i came home sighing
013177_11313_000015 i say to you i am married and have sworn to be faithful to my husband perhaps you do not know that the colors of my family hang in the royal park perhaps you do not know that my husband is honorary lancer in the palace
013177_11313_000016 a freshly-opened cherry bud her lips upon the flute she leans in the corner of the balcony the night is chill her silken robes are thin her fingers cold
013177_11313_000017 so let us slaughter the sheep and the ox let us make merry and merry why i promise to swallow three hundred cups this single night
013177_11313_000018 going to market by tu fu the little servant boy tying the feet of the chicken he would take to market the chicken flutters in his hands and squawks with fright
013177_11313_000019 but i pluck the willow of sorrow a gulf divides us and there is no fairy bridge of birds to carry me across
013177_11313_000020 when the sun rose by li chuang-chia when she went out to meet her lover under the big willow tree by the river edge she put on two of her lovely robes to please him
013177_11313_000021 my father stares without feelings my mother turns away her head a sparrow overhead is acting so delighted maybe some extra grain for him
013177_11313_000022 the emperor's soldiers march down the white mound road tartars search the inlets of the blue sea soldiers may turn their heads thinking of home but at home we never see a returning soldier
013177_11313_000023 the jade flute by various chinese poets contentment by li po when you ask why i dwell here docile among the far green hills i laugh in my heart my heart is happy
013177_11313_000024 up there at pa the river shoots like flying arrows let a boat be caught and it's swept off a thousand miles before the current quiets down
013177_11313_000025 when the sun sank below the hills and the night was dark the two lovers still lay there talking tenderly together suddenly she rose to her feet rosy with shame her third robe the darkness under the willow had fallen off with dawn
013177_11313_000026 i go back and back to wander there there blue fingers of the moon still play on my old lute there wind scatters clouds and comes down to flutter my robe
013177_11313_000027 let there be moonlight in our evening let the golden cups never stand empty heaven blessed me with riches and i must spend myself though i throw away ten thousand gold coins and poems always i find more
013177_11313_000028 waiting on the tower by lee ho here the moon floats bright over heaven's mountain it sails on a white cloud ocean five thousand miles away a shrill wind's screaming and cold is whistling from human pass
013177_11313_000029 come friend ch'in come master ch'an i offer you my wine do not refuse it i offer you my song do not ignore it
013177_11313_000030 the blue robe by tu fu bring me no more flowers bring me only cypress boughs to shroud my face
013177_11313_000031 it is always sad autumn when our enemies sweep down their raiders from the mountains to invade us the trumpets summon the warriors they will ride on till they come to the great wall then they will ride beyond it out on the great kobi desert
013177_11313_000032 like a cormorant by su tong po the cormorant stands still thinking all alone at the river's edge his staring eye follows the changing waters
013177_11313_000033 after sunset in the mountains i will put on my blue robe with long sleeves and go out to sleep among the bamboos that she loved the ashes of my house by du fu
013177_11313_000034 look do you not see the clear mirror in the hall showing our hair black silk at morning fallen to bitter snow by night you who have had your fill of bitter life come drink the dregs with me
013177_11313_000035 i weep alone before my silver lamp and grow frail as hsiao yan the slender beauty when shall we share a night like this a spring night like this and meet together under a full moon
013177_11313_000036 but music floats through frosty woods and startled plums fall pattering down weep not young women it is by yi po
013177_11313_000037 let us drink wine by li po look do you not see the rain falling at last from the sky falling into the yellow river flowing fast into the sea and never never returning
013177_11313_000038 best happiness of all by wong way i am old and i am bored i was never very wise and my mind has never walked much further than my feet only my forest my forest
013177_11313_000039 you ask me what is the best happiness of all in the forest it is sweet to hear a girl singing on the path after she has stopped to ask her way and thanked you with a smile
013177_11313_000040 there only the cold bare moon only cold beads of dew on swords and shields how they shiver weep not young women this is no time to start your weeping who knows how long that you must weep
013177_11313_000041 looking forward i cannot see ages yet to come only heaven and earth have remained and will remain forever i am alone i grieve i drop tears into the dust
013177_11313_000042 and at dusk when the moon is rippling on the waves the cormorant still stands thinking with one foot in the current just so a man his heart burning with passion stares at the undulations of his dream
013177_11313_000043 i have seen a road that wanders in green shade that runs through sweet fields of flowers my eyes have traveled there and journeyed far along that cool fine road
013177_11313_000044 when strollers come too close to him balancing his long neck he flaps away waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass wishing to stare again at the undulations of the stream
013177_11313_000045 when i returned to the house where i had been a happy child only a pile of ashes where it had stood i wept long and to forget my weeping i sailed out on the vast calm sea on these waters in a star sapphire night i played my flute to the summer moon
013177_11313_000046 i knew then happiness was burned forever under a pile of ashes running back to the sea i decided to drown myself but a white boat sailed along the shore a young girl was sailing it
013177_11313_000047 or pour perfumes in a carved bowl of rosy quartz so you may dip in it the pointed tips of those beloved pale fingers to his dead lover by li fu chen
013177_11313_000048 but i will never really walk that road it does not really lead to where she lives when she was born they bound her little feet with leather bands my beloved never walks the road of shade and flowers
013177_11313_000049 the swishing sound of silk is still the dust gathers on marble floors the room is hollow cold and silent
013177_11313_000050 oh you who smiled at me that day when i was suffering oh you who rescued me from grief i will build again the happy house of my childhood in your heart
013177_11313_000051 the peach blossom watches the river running but remains content there is better heaven and hearth than the busy world of men i have seen a road by anonymous
013177_11313_000052 why be jealous by li po my little boat is made of ebony my flute stops of pure gold water loosens stains from silk
013177_11313_000053 ten thousand coins he will barter them for wine and we we will drown the sorrow of a thousand generations at the river by li po she gathers lily flowers in the shallow river waters singing as she wades
013177_11313_000054 dare i lack money no let us buy the wine let us drink together i will send my boy with my five colored horse i will send my boy with my wondrous furs worth alone
013177_11313_000055 my grief my melody but the moon a woman's face soon veiled itself with cloud i sailed back to shore i walked away from the waters to the friendly forest but there the trees too turned away from me
013177_11313_000056 here sit i on a hard wood box stenciled black with the name of a seller of sugar this table is so dirty even if i had food i could not eat it here
013177_11313_000057 they say prince ch'en at his great ping yueh temple feast paid ten thousand coins for wine so everyone could have enough now that i give the feast
013177_11313_000058 troubled waters by li po the autumn moon is dancing in the green waters of lake nan-hou now the sound of my oars has troubled the love-song of white water-lilies singing to the moon
013177_11313_000059 there we gazed at the round moon and listened to the windy pines suddenly we heard music a sad song coming on the wind there was a singer in a boat
013177_11313_000060 wine loosens sadness from the heart with gold wine a graceful boat and a sweet girl's love why be jealous of mere gods
013177_11313_000061 then how can i write of wine sprinkled with violets so you may drink with delight how can i promise i will decorate your blue dress with glittering emerald jewels how can i offer you the perfect pear of golden amber
013177_11313_000062 the meats and the dancing and the music are not my desire my only desire is to be drunk for ever and ever and never wake again scholars and saints are forgotten soon but great drunkards are immortal
013177_11313_000063 now my fierce tiger friend has crashed into a trap it is fine to face fate nobly but if my brave comrade is in danger what pleasure can i find in being free and happy
013177_11313_000064 be careful by anonymous take care be fearful night and day look sharp we do not stumble on mountains but on clods and fall
013177_11313_000065 i sit on the stone fortress wall there winds bring scent of almond blossoms from trees beyond my sight
013177_11313_000066 i built my little house right in the city but i never hear horse or carriage do you wonder how this can be because a soul unattached creates its own sweet solitude
013177_11313_000067 bare feet sticking through the blanket rain came through the roof till there was not a dry inch in bed like strings of wax the rain hung down all these disasters of war hang down and keep us from peaceful rest
013177_11313_000068 musicians played about me i looked out on gardens with path of coral pebbles now prisoner in this cold fortress i hear only frightening calls from the watchman silly cries from monkeys playing on bare rocks in moonlight
013177_11313_000069 she wears a dress of pink and a dress of yellow her basket bears a little twist of silk on the south road the governor of the province calls to his men to stop the horses ask that pretty one her name find out her age for me
013177_11313_000070 i pick chrysanthemums under the hedge to the east gaze at the mountain rising to the south breathe high western air at sunset watch the birds fly north these things hold hidden truths
013177_11313_000071 faded narcissus floating down the river to tienouan if you see there a young girl dreaming under a cinnamon tree that has blossomed twice since we embraced tell her i smell a fresh carnation to remember her perfume
013177_11313_000072 to the hermit cheng by po chu-i i hear you have come here to live for good here by the lonely gate among the burial mounds enclosed by tall bamboo groves
013177_11313_000073 join the spokes together to make a wheel a wheel is full of openness nonbeing but it is necessary spin wet clay to shape a cooking pot a cooking pot is empty full of nonbeing but it is necessary
013177_11313_000074 the maiden lo fo by anonymous going to gather leaves lo fo puts up her gleaming hair she puts a pearl in each pearl ear
013177_11313_000075 leaves have drifted against the doors longing for that lost sweet girl i wonder how to lull my aching heart to rest
013177_11313_000076 we rode together through the country a pair of prancing peacocks our jeweled long swords shining in the sun our tall headdresses scarlet and our precious furs worth thousands we were guests of all five orders of nobility
013177_11313_000077 as it drew near us we saw a woman white as snow singing and crying too leaning on the mast my companions asked her why she wept
013177_11313_000078 said lofo in the countryside of tsin there lives a girl named lofo she is not twenty yet but neither is she a child for she has passed sixteen the governor hesitates ask the lovely maiden if she wishes to come with me in my chariot
013177_11313_000079 at hsien yu temple by po chu-i the tall crane walked out of the pool and stood on the flight of steps the moon danced out of the pool and entered the open door
013177_11313_000080 our world cares only for unenchanted things young girls of old by wang chong lin  in a tiny grove with flowers everywhere young girls of days gone by sit looking in their mirrors they say
013177_11313_000081 fear shakes me my guts are emptied of courage if only i could see the lights of the capital but all i can see are stars above it
013177_11313_000082 the friends by li po you rode a yellow horse i rode a white one horses two colors but our boyish hearts were one
013177_11313_000083 you called for poems about twilight each twilight now brings memories of the soft blue dress you wore that day in the palace when you read and judged them
013177_11313_000084 the evening clouds are gathering again and the sky widens to the south it is an old story parting from a lover is full of pain and it is all the worse in rainy autumn tonight when i grow sober after all this wine where will you be
013177_11313_000085 i think you are sincere i think you are honorable therefore i have put your pearls against my robe and i have looked at them and smiled but take them now again
013177_11313_000086 you who foolishly ran off with that penniless boy who mended his clothes with patches from your old clothes brought from home and i teased you for your gold hairpins so we could trade for wine and we drank it with our dinners berries and herbs picked cheap in the field
013177_11313_000087 if mine was judged the best you see there was a vision of you a vision in blue veils in the blue dawn when i could not sleep so i got up from bed and wrote the poem for you
013313_11403_000000 the look of mute joy on the agonized face subdues the excruciating pain in my hand oh dear aleck he whispers i'm so glad they let you come i'll get well if you'll nurse me
013313_11403_000001 tears fill my eyes as i read his despairing cry oh aleck i am so young i don't want to die he implores me to visit him
013313_11403_000002 the days of terrible anxiety incident to the tunnel project my heart goes out to the faithful boy whose loyalty and discretion have so much aided the safety of my comrades
013313_11403_000003 my words seem to soothe my friend and he grows more cheerful when unexpectedly he learns the truth from the wrangling nurses his notes grow piteous with misery
013313_11403_000004 the dampness of the cell is piercing my bones every movement racks my body with pain my eyes are tortured with the eternal white of the walls sombre shadows brood around me
013313_11403_000005 by tacit permission of the friendly medicine boy i pass to the second floor where the wards are located and quickly steal to russell's bedside
013313_11403_000006 two the passing weeks and months bring no break in the dreary monotony the call of the robin on the river bank rouses no echo in my heart no sign of awakening spring brightens the constant semi-darkness of the solitary
013313_11403_000007 with intense thankfulness i think of russell again i live through the hopes and fears that drew us into closer friendship
013313_11403_000008 and the boy falls into slumber silently i touch his dry lips and steal away in the afternoon i appeal to the warden to permit me to nurse my friend
013313_11403_000009 i long for a bit of sunshine i wait patiently at the door perhaps it is clear to-day my cell faces west
013313_11403_000010 it is the boy's dying wish it will ease his last hours the captain refers me to the inspectors but mr reed informs me that it would be subversive of discipline to grant my request
013313_11403_000011 thereupon i ask permission to arrange a collection among the prisoners russell firmly believes that he would improve in outside hospital and the pardon board might grant the petition
013313_11403_000012 maybe the setting sun will steal a glance upon me for hours i stand with naked breast close to the bars i must not miss a friendly ray it may suddenly peep into the cell and turn away from me unseen in the gloom
013313_11403_000013 the shadow of death is in his eyes the body exudes decomposition bereft of speech i gently press his white emaciated hand the weary eyes close
013313_11403_000014 or maybe the astral aura of my beloved uncle maxim bringing warmth and hope sweet conceit of oriental thought barren of joy in life the sun is fading it feels chilly in the twilight
013313_11403_000015 now a bright beam plays on my neck and shoulders and i press closer to the door to welcome the dear stranger he caresses me with soft touch perhaps it is the soul of little dick pouring out his tender greeting in this song of light
013313_11403_000016 but in the afternoon he is missing from the line with sudden apprehension i wonder at his absence could i have overlooked him in the closely walking ranks it is barely possible
013313_11403_000017 i plead with him for permission to visit the sick boy who is hungry for a friendly presence and constantly calling for me apparently touched by my emotion the captain yields
013313_11403_000018 the warden berating me for having taken advantage of my presence in the dispensary to see russell clandestinely and threatening to punish me with the dungeon
013313_11403_000019 friendless prisoners are often allowed to circulate subscription lists among the inmates and two years previously i had collected a hundred and twenty-three dollars for the pardon of a lifetimer
013313_11403_000020 eagerly every day i anticipate his mute greeting as he passes in the line this morning i saw him hold up two fingers the third crooked in the sign of the remaining two and a stump a joyous light in his eyes his step firmer more elastic
013313_11403_000021 a strange longing for his companionship possesses me in the gnawing loneliness his face floats before me casting the spell of a friendly presence
013313_11403_000022 and now the solitary is once more bleak and cold as his release approaches the tone of native confidence becomes more assertive in russell's letter
013313_11403_000023 the boy is jubilant and full of vitality within three months he will breathe the air of freedom a note of sadness at leaving me behind permeates his communications but he is enthusiastic over his project of aiding me to liberty
013313_11403_000024 if i could only come to nurse him he is sure he would improve he distrusts the convict attendants who harry and banter the country lad their heartless abuse is irritating the sick boy beyond patience
013313_11403_000025 but the warden curtly refuses my plea remarking that it is dangerous to permit me to associate with the men i suggest the chaplain for the mission or some prisoner selected by the authorities but this offer is also vetoed
013313_11403_000026 he will permit me to visit russell he informs me on condition that a guard be present at the meeting for a moment i hesitate the desire to see my friend struggles against the fear of irritating him by the sight of the hated uniform
013313_11403_000027 he is dead bear up aleck his last thought was of you he was unconscious all afternoon but just before the end it was nine thirty three he sat up in bed so suddenly he frightened me
013313_11403_000028 for three days every morning and afternoon i anxiously scrutinize the faces of the passing men but russell is not among them his absence torments me with a thousand fears may be the warden has renewed his inquisition of the boy
013313_11403_000029 with difficulty i recognize my friend's bold handwriting in the uneven nervous scrawl russell is in the hospital at work in the shop he writes he had suffered a chill the doctor committed him to the ward for observation
013313_11403_000030 perhaps he got into a fight in the shop in the dungeon now he'll lose his commutation time unable to bear the suspense i am about to appeal to the chaplain when a friendly runner surreptitiously hands me a note
013313_11403_000031 perhaps he has remained in his cell not feeling well it may be nothing serious he will surely be in the line tomorrow
013313_11403_000032 late at night frank appears at my cell he looks very grave as he whispers aleck you must bear up russell yes aleck worse tell me frank
013313_11403_000033 but i cannot expose the dying youth to this indignity and pain angered by my refusal perhaps disappointed in the hope of learning the secret of the tunnel from the visit the warden forbids me hereafter to enter the hospital
013313_11403_000034 but several days pass and still no reply from captain wright finally i pretend severe pains in the bowels to afford frank the doctor's assistant an opportunity to pause at my cell
013313_11403_000035 as the medicine boy pours the prescribed pint of horse salts through the funnel inserted between the bars i hastily inquire is russell still in the ward frank how is he
013313_11403_000036 he is not expected at the office till the following week i prevail upon the kindly mitchell recently transferred to the south block to deliver a note to the warden in which i appeal on behalf of russell
013313_11403_000037 but the officers and the convict nurses accuse him of shamming to evade work they threaten to have him returned to the shop and he implores me to have the chaplain intercede for him
013313_11403_000038 he feels weak and feverish and the thoughts of being left alone in the cell in his present condition fills him with horror i send an urgent request to see the chaplain but the guard informs me that mr milligan is absent
013313_11403_000039 his strong features softened by sorrow his eyes grown large with the same sweet sadness of little felipe
013313_11403_000040 look here aleck i know you're square and you can keep a secret all right i'll tell you something if you won't give me away yes yes frank what is it
013313_11403_000041 your friend russell i know who you mean i'm sorry for the boy he is paralyzed all right but no it can't be why frank it was just a chill and a little weakness
013313_11403_000042 exasperated by the taunts of the night nurse russell yesterday threw a saucer at him he was reported to the doctor who threatened to send the paralyzed youth to the dungeon
013313_11403_000043 what russell he asks indifferently russell schroyer put four days ago under observation oh that poor kid why he is paralyzed
013313_11403_000044 for an instant i am speechless with terror no it it cannot be some mistake frank i mean young schroyer from the construction shop he's number two six oh eight
013313_11403_000045 don't know a damn thing about it and careless as hell always makes mistakes well doc ordered an injection for russell now don't ever say i told you
013313_11403_000046 pious john the rangeman is unsympathetic he still bears me ill will from the days of the jail only young russell still remembers me
013313_11403_000047 i pass the night in anguish clutching desperately at the faint hope that it cannot be some mistake perhaps frank has exaggerated
013313_11403_000048 you know flem the night nurse doing a five spot for murder his father and the warden are old cronies that's how he got to be nurse
013313_11403_000049 letters from my comrades have become rare and irregular they sound strangely cold and impersonal the life of the prison is also receding no communication reaches me from my friends
013313_11403_000050 in my utter isolation the world outside appears like a faint memory unreal and dim the deprivation of newspapers has entirely severed me from the living
013313_11403_000051 flem got the wrong bottle gave the poor boy some acid in the injection paralyzed the kid he did the damn murderer
013313_11403_000052 there is something wrong with his legs the poor boy writes he is unable to move them and suffers great pain it can't be fever he thinks but the physician will not tell him what is the matter
013313_11403_000053 plagued and tormented in great suffering russell grows bitter and complaining the nurses and officers are persecuting him he writes they will soon do him to death if i will not come to his rescue
013313_11403_000054 and his health is declining in the broken sentences i sense some vague misgiving as of impending calamity
013313_11403_000055 how sorrowful he looks now he is gone the hours are weary with silence and solitude listlessly i turn to the pages of my library book
013313_11403_000056 a peculiar tenderness steals into my thoughts of the boy i look forward eagerly to his notes impatiently i scan the faces in the passing line wistful for the sight of the youth and my heart beats faster at his fleeting smile
013313_11403_000057 if he could go to an outside hospital he is sure to recover every evening frank brings sadder news russell is feeling worse he is so nervous the doctor has ordered the nurses to wear slippers
013313_11403_000058 but in the morning the medicine boy confirms my worst fear the doctor has said the boy will die russell does not realize the situation
013313_11403_000059 the kindly frank is sympathetic every day he passes notes between us and i try to encourage russell he will improve i assure him his time is short and fresh air and liberty will soon restore him
013313_11403_000060 he looks pale and haggard the old buoyant step now languid and heavy a tone of apprehension pervades his notes he is constantly harassed by the officers he writes his task has been increased he is nervous and weak
013313_11403_000061 i tremble for the reckless boy as i hear his low cough apprising me of the stiff he unerringly shoots between the bars while the double file of prisoners marches past my door
013313_11403_000062 there is no hope frank reports decomposition has already set in the boy is in terrible agony he is constantly crying with pain and calling for me
013313_11403_000063 with an involuntary cry i withdraw my maimed and bleeding fingers the overseer conducts me to the dispensary
013313_11403_000064 distraught with anxiety and yearning to see my sick friend i resolve upon a way to visit the hospital in the morning as the guard hands me the bread ration and shuts my cell i slip my hand between the sill and the door
013313_11403_000065 he will at once secure a position and save every penny to aid in my release tacitly i concur in his ardent hope it would break his heart to be disillusioned
013313_11403_000066 he is so tender-hearted his correspondence is full of sympathy and encouragement and he strives to cheer me with the good news another day is gone his sentence is nearing its end
013313_11403_000067 i shall not see him when he returns to the cell at noon the line passes on the opposite side of the hall but in the afternoon when the men are again unlocked for work i shall look into his eyes for a happy moment and perhaps the dear boy will have a message for me
013313_11403_000068 if only i had the birds i should find solace in their thoughtful eyes dick and sis would understand and feel with me but my poor little friends have disappeared only russell remains my only friend
013313_11403_000069 the doors in the ward have been lined with cotton to deaden the noise of slamming but even the sight of a moving figure throws russell into convulsions
013313_12146_000000 that's curious we've had gorgeous weather in london the birds ceased to sing what birds what the devil does it matter what birds said young bingo with some asperity any birds the birds round about here you don't expect me to specify them by their
013313_12146_000001 steggles didn't notice it and the rev didn't notice it himself but eustace and i both spotted that he had dropped a chunk of at least half a dozen pages out of his sermon case as he was walking up to the pulpit he sort of flickered
013313_12146_000002 i believe that is the technical term sir said jeeves so you had inside information dash it said young bingo why yes sir said jeeves brookfield
013313_12146_000003 don't touch a word of it or you'll spoil the whole thing i said earnestly i am delighted to hear you say so and i shall preach the sermon without fail next sunday morning
013313_12146_000004 very vividly sir well they're down there too reading for some exam or other with the vicar i used to read with him myself at one time
013313_12146_000005 snatched eustace away from his morning's work and instructed him to put a tenner on the twing flier at current odds for each of the syndicate and after lunch eustace rang me up to say that he had done business at a snappy seven to one
013313_12146_000006 the blighter had apparently risen with the lark leave me i said i would be alone i can't see anybody till i've had my tea when cynthia smiles said young bingo the skies are blue
013313_12146_000007 when he got to the gap in the manuscript but carried on all right and steggles went away with the impression that twenty minutes or a bit under was his usual form the next sunday we heard tucker and starkie
013313_12146_000008 undoubtedly sir right-o then pack our spare dickey and a toothbrush in a neat brown paper parcel send a wire to lord wickhammersley to say we're coming and buy two tickets on the five ten at paddington tomorrow
013313_12146_000009 he's being offered at a hundred to six but no takers what shall we do i had to grapple with the thing for a moment in silence eustace hello what can you get on g hayward
013313_12146_000010 however it seems our only chance so long not being one of the official stewards i had my choice of churches next morning and naturally i didn't hesitate the only drawback in going to lower bingley was that it was ten miles away
013313_12146_000011 the world takes on a roseate hue birds in the garden trill and sing and joy is king of everything when cynthia smiles
013313_12146_000012 the odds having lengthened owing to a rumor in knowledgeable circles that the rev was subject to hay fever and was taking big chances strolling  the paddock behind the vicarage in the early mornings
013313_12146_000013 bright and early the next morning as i lay in bed blinking at the sunlight on the dressing table and wondering when jeeves was going to show up with a cup of tea a heavy weight descended on my toes and the voice of young bingo polluted the air
013313_12146_000014 happened to mention the contents of the note to me when he brought it we are old friends bingo registered grief anguish rage despair and resentment
013313_12146_000015 what i have always said and what i always shall say is that this ante post betting is a mistake an error and a mug's game you never can tell what's going to happen
013313_12146_000016 reverend j j roberts fale-by-the-water receives ten minutes reverend g hayward lower bingley receives twelve minutes reverend james bates
013313_12146_000017 he's known far and wide as a pretty hot coach for those of fairly feeble intellect well when i tell you he got me through smalls you'll gather that he's a bit of a hummer
013313_12146_000018 names do you i tell you bertie it hit me hard at first very hard what hit you i simply couldn't follow the blighter charlotte's calculated callousness oh
013313_12146_000019 leave me laddie i said leave me to my fried egg directly i'd got up i went to the phone
013398_13941_000000 where were they how much of their utterly incomprehensible top speed did they have left practically perfect jon exclaimed happily after nearly an hour of careful computations as he read the last tapes from the calculator it works out at one point eight four g's to atmosphere
013398_13941_000001 present routine which is all we can stand as we are bogin can beat us in besides he will undoubtedly shoot down the star rover if he catches up with it-and you know what would happen to us yes when i checked today he was only about two hundred million behind
013398_13941_000002 i woke up just a few minutes ahead of you and that's one of the first things i looked at then i found i was weak and dry so i went out and made this broth he passed the cups and as the others drank gratefully jon spoke again
013398_13941_000003 mr carver thought slowly and intently then spoke decisively i believe that this is our best bet if it's sure we certainly want to get back first if possible and according to our
013398_13941_000004 oh positively k mr carver agreed a master computer couldn't have done any better and jack has certainly proved himself to be a grand doctor
013398_13941_000005 we sure did jon smiled broadly we were out just a little over five days and the receptors don't show a thing behind
013398_13941_000006 for long anxious minutes he worked but still no sounds save the noise of cosmic rays and the other forces of the void that made long distance communication such a problem with a weary gesture jon finally turned off the set
013398_13941_000007 but it'll take couple of hours maybe more to compute the last hop it's tricky especially i'll i'll have to look in the ephemeris to find the position of luna when we get near her orbit
013398_13941_000008 and then the change and that should have made them wonder why so our explanation ought to satisfy them that reminds me jon swung back to his panel let's see if we can pick up our signals from there
013398_13941_000009 or bogin's rather his lips tightened in a few moments his tubes had warmed up but nothing came in over his ultra range receivers
013398_13941_000010 mr carver reached out a hand and patted his wife's cheek as she stood by his side it's going to work out all right honey his voice was bright and assured
013398_13941_000011 if bogin holds his acceleration plus and minus we can take most of the day and still beat him in jon had been doing some rapid preliminary figuring
013398_13941_000012 right we don't want to hit her well we can keep at one gravity for at least twelve hours then his father said and mrs carver breathed a sigh of relief she was still a bit worried about their undergoing such untried experiments even though she trusted the abilities of her menfolks
013398_13941_000013 and he blew her a kiss as the boys helped him into his pack and saw to it that he was securely and comfortably strapped in then they did the same for their mother
013398_13941_000014 how much time after the injection before we blank out owl jon asked then a minute or so i guess why figuring how long i'll have to handle the controls a minute is plenty of time as i can have everything set up and only have one switch to throw
013398_13941_000015 it is mainly my not knowing that makes me afraid sometimes she gave him a lopsided smile i hate being the weak member of the party you're nothing of the kind he grinned as the boys murmured protest which meant the same thing you're the best fellow in the gang
013398_13941_000016 and swung about with a stricken face what do you suppose is wrong pop the elder shook his head slowly only thing i can think of is that we're so far away the senders can't reach this far
013398_13941_000017 these boys of ours are really up on their stuff yes she agreed i know they know what they are doing and that you are checking them carefully
013398_13941_000018 hey we're all crossing bridges where maybe there isn't even a creek to be spanned he made his voice mockingly cheerful what's happened to the good old carver spirit you're right pop jon shook away his dismay and began to smile we're not licked yet
013398_13941_000019 he sure is his younger brother paid deserved tribute jak reddened a bit and hastily left the control room to help his mother with her work they all took warm baths and changed their clothing as jak was helping his father he asked anxiously
013398_13941_000020 now that we're alone father did you really come through alright you look a bit more tired and worn than before we started this
013398_13941_000021 jak went to his room and came back quickly with his hypodermic needles and the bottle of glucose and concentrates he put these beside the test tube with the new fluid
013398_13941_000022 he tipped the needle into the light carefully expelled a couple of drops to make sure all air was out of the tube then quickly and with a sureness he had trouble making his hand achieve
013398_13941_000023 jak smiled a bit strainedly i don't like it but i know how you feel about this so i'll keep quiet how's your leg thanks son our getting back first is very important to me and i can rest and get well after we reach earth and get the board's confirmation on our claim
013398_13941_000024 this close to terra it could be some other ship not bogin's could be and probably is his father stroked his chin reflectively
013398_13941_000025 i've got to hand it to you owl you sure fixed us fine this time he certainly did mr carver spoke as forcefully as he could
013398_13941_000026 carefully he drew four cubic centimeters of the new clear fluid into his needle then approached his mother ready he asked smiling but with tight lips she pushed up her left sleeve ready son and now her voice was soft but steady
013398_13941_000027 it's not my credit dr svendholm's the one who but it was you who made up the fluid and induced you to take it his mother came over and ran her hand gently through his hair i'm proud of you
013398_13941_000028 he pushed the slim needle into her arm and injected the drug with the ball of his thumb he rubbed the puncture gently for a moment sleep tight mother he smiled and leaned down to kiss her who's next he turned to the others me of course his father bared his arm
013398_13941_000029 let's try it jak was all eagerness take it easy son we've got to talk and study this a lot first mr carver then turned to his wife who had sunk back into her seat biting her lips to keep from crying out
013398_13941_000030 jon's tone was dispirited and the dangers you were up against mrs carver's eyes were tear-dimmed their father caught himself then looked at each with a disarming grin
013398_13941_000031 and don't forget that we might not get back at all if bogin catches up with us he's ruthless about anyone who gets in his way as for the leg it aches some but not like it did before i really think it's healing in fine shape
013398_13941_000032 but while they were eating a short time later jon turned his seat to face his father don't like to start worrying again pop he said in a low voice but our receptor is picking up atomic activity behind us again of course he added quickly
013398_13941_000033 sure i'm ok mr carver said quickly but he could not meet his son's eyes you're not sir and you know it and i know it
013398_13941_000034 carefully he administered the dosage of nutrients to the other three then lay down on his recline seat and gave himself his own dose he rested there for a couple of minutes then rose
013398_13941_000035 won't that be in our favor jak asked if they can't hear any signals at all our records ought to be enough maybe yes maybe no mr carver answered with a tired smile and after all our hard work too
013398_13941_000036 let's have a look jak threw back the covers and peered closely at the leg lifting it so he could better see all around it yes he said finally as he tucked in the blankets again
013398_13941_000037 two fine boys then for jon is certainly every bit as deserving of your praise as i am sir that i'll certainly buy
013398_13941_000038 but just as jak brought the needle close to his arm the younger boy pushed it away wait now jak how about you can you make it to your pack and get in and strap down and settle and then give yourself the shot before i throw the switch and the five g's take effect
013398_13941_000039 then he stepped up to the pilot's pressure pack where his younger brother was adjusting the controls ready jon just a sec the boy was still working pushing in a button there turning a switch here
013398_13941_000040 he'd know from his own receptors when we started speeding up so fast and he'd do something to counteract that if he could i've heard things like that about him but i don't know him i do grimly
013398_13941_000041 don't worry about me his brother said gruffly i'll make out some way not good enough jon said positively let's figure this down to seconds
013398_13941_000042 we've had brushes before when i was in other ships he's a skunk and ought to be behind bars but so far no one has been able to produce any real evidence of what all spacemen know must be true
013398_13941_000043 it's almost healed and there isn't a sign of inflammation not even a bump where the break was i i sure hope i set it right so that it won't bother you later on his father patted his hand
013398_13941_000044 you did a grand job i know son and i'm very grateful to you-as well as proud of having such a fine boy
013398_13941_000045 i don't see how he could've caught up with us but we don't know what his ship can do the guy's tricky and dirty but he does have a brain and he has some darned good technies in his crew
013398_13941_000046 stopping to tighten a wire or connection somewhere else but in a few moments he had finished and then rested his right hand on the handle of the master switch ready to push it into contact
013398_13941_000047 mr carver's eyes shone they all sat about during the day eating as much as they could hold of mrs carver's fine cooking and relaxing gratefully in the comfortable one gravity earth weight
013398_13941_000048 jon has to be awake last to handle the controls again jak filled his needle and as carefully as before he injected the sleeping drug into his father
013398_13941_000049 if the board accepts our claim and data against his won't that be proof against him it should be you can bet your tackle i'll work on that angle space will be cleaner if that hellhound isn't in it you bet pop i hope you sink your hook in him this time
013398_13941_000050 jak thought swiftly a moment your point's well taken jon but you didn't figure it right your way i'd have to give you your injection beside doing all the rest in the same length of time if i give you yours first i can get into my pack and give myself mine there
013398_13941_000051 jon and his father worked tirelessly until they had computed precisely where they were and how soon and how much more deceleration they would have to use to finish their trip
013398_13941_000052 that sounds reasonable what about shielding for the generators there'd have to be a lot more of that too probably thick shields of neocarbolloy and paraffin but can't they surround the generators
013398_13941_000053 nor did the others notice that he began disappearing into the ship's storeroom each up period and had to be called repeatedly when the meal was ready or it was time to strap down again
013398_13941_000054 then they too relaxed for the balance of the day late that afternoon jon suddenly swiveled his chair about to face his father's reclined seat i think i've figured out something on that new fuel and how to use it pop ships'll have to be changed though
013398_13941_000055 the bins will have to be heavily lead-lined of course and so would the injector tubes have to be shielded the nozzle would have to be made smaller so the pellets will fit better
013398_13941_000056 i figure the people who used to handle the stuff made the nuggets that exact size on purpose that we'd not want to try making them the same size as our copper ones
013398_13941_000057 as he saw jak's nod that was all done he turned to his panel a quick glance about his board with his fast diminishing senses told him everything was on the green with his last measure of consciousness he rammed home the switch
013398_13941_000058 you merely stay awake until i'm done yes guess you're right but fix your pack so you can be sure of getting in without any trouble jak did this then came back filled the needle and injected it into jon's arm
013398_13941_000059 swiftly then he ran to his own pack climbed in and fastened the straps he filled the needle plunged it into his arm and pushed home the plunger jon had been watching his brother forcing back the drowsiness that sought to engulf him
013398_13941_000060 he said nothing of what he was doing nor did any of the other think to ask for the boys were customarily here and there about the ship busy at their many tasks and activities
013398_13941_000061 if i don't close the switch before i black out all this will be basted how about if you inject yourself first will you have time enough to give me my shot and then get back into your pack and strap down before you go under
013398_13941_000062 he settled back into a more comfortable position and felt himself plunging down the blackness of unconsciousness jon felt himself coming awake and his first startled thought was didn't the stuff work
013398_13941_000063 bins and everything with force fields as an added precaution mm maybe they could at that we'd better put it up to the scientists and technies back on terra
013398_13941_000064 i thought we were going to forget that nonsense his mother said sharply wait now marci let's hear what the boy has her husband said gently then go ahead jak
013398_13941_000065 but i'm sure going to learn before i finish and some day when i run against anything like this again you can bet i'll know what to do what's the use of going all that trouble when you only have that small amount of fuel you found their mother asked curiously
013398_13941_000066 now almost fully awake his eyes sought the various meters dials gauge and telltales on his panel everything seemed to be working properly he tuned in his receptor and applied greater and still greater power
013398_13941_000067 her hands clenched tightly well make as sure as we possibly can before we decide to do anything honey but don't you see the advantage of this if it will work we must get to terra first if we can and this seems to be the only way we know of doing it
013398_13941_000068 ouch you would have to think of that jon grumbled but mr carver smiled up at his wife there's plenty on planet five remember
013398_13941_000069 space behind was blank of atomics smiling thankfully and beginning to unloosen his straps jon now noticed how dry his mouth was
013398_13941_000070 but at the start of one up period jak went at once to the storeroom and workshop and when he came back to the table set in the control room he showed his family a large corked test tube filled with a colorless liquid
013398_13941_000071 having already privately warned jak to say nothing of his weakened condition he looked solicitously over at his wife you alright marci
013398_13941_000072 he began to open his eyes and noticed at once how stiff his eyelids felt but he forced them open he looked at the date clock and smiled with relief the five days and several hours had passed seemingly in an instant
013398_13941_000073 i've got it he exclaimed his eyes shining i found all the ingredients needed in our stores and my medical kit and made up a batch of the cataleptic fluid we inject four c c's in each of us and what you're talking about jon demanded
013398_13941_000074 neither of us knows enough to handle it ourselves when it comes down to the actual work the boy's face fell then he forced a smile i hate to give in to anyone else on this but you're right as rain pop it is too big a fish for us to handle alone
013398_13941_000075 the stuff to make us unconscious so we can stand five g's of acceleration jack looked up in hurt surprise what what we were talking about the other
013398_13941_000076 jon tried to rise but reeled back and almost fell as he got onto his feet he held himself erect a moment and gradually felt a measure of strength returning
013398_13941_000077 then this stuff puts us into deep sleep slows our metabolism you said in such a state we could stand much heavier acceleration father then with this we can beat bogin
013398_13941_000078 the others he turned quickly to look at them they were all still lying in their packs somewhat pale but with a peaceful unstrained look on their faces
013398_13941_000079 and under the prime discoverer's code we'll get a percentage of the process won't we pop i think so that'll be up to the board but they usually pretty square about such things when it was time jak again gave the family the dosage of nutrients and then the shots
013398_13941_000080 and probably in other places around the universe you can bet that prospectors will be hunting and finding it once we announce our discovery if we and the scientists can figure out what it was before it started losing its half-life
013398_13941_000081 any after effects the book says the doctor never discovered any especially after he started giving people the nutrient injection first he has had people under for as much as two weeks
013398_13941_000082 what sort of shape would it leave us in his father almost raised up in interest and held up his hand when his wife would have broken in are there
013398_13941_000083 jon had filled four thermos bottles with strength regaining soup his mother had made and these were placed at each pressure pack ready for their awakening again the four lapsed into the complete unconsciousness of suspended animation
013398_13941_000084 four c cs will act for about five days so i thought we could use that much the first time at least hmm five gs would certainly put us way ahead of bogin's ship jon had jumped up from the table and had been working swiftly with the computer
013398_13941_000085 as soon as he could he went into the galley quickly he prepared a cup of instant broth and drank it gratefully much refreshed he made more of the consomme and further enriched it with some anti fatigue pills dissolved in the steaming liquid
013398_13941_000086 he set four cups of it on a tray and carried them into the control room his first quick glance showed the other beginning to stir morning folks he called cheerily soup's on they opened their eyes slowly almost uncomprehendingly
013398_13941_000087 and if we can learn how to use it he said firmly once metallurgists have had the chance to analyze it they won't take long to figure out exactly what it is and where it can probably be found the type of sun and planet that would have it i mean he added
013398_13941_000088 knowing neither discomfort nor the long passage of time while their little ship bored through the immensities of space at a constant negative acceleration of five gravities as before when they awakened they felt as though they had just gone to sleep
013398_13941_000089 tell us more about this this medicine injected into our bloodstream puts us into suspended animation for several days depending on how much of the fluid we use we first take an injection of glucose and other nutrients of course
013398_13941_000090 and that his skin felt dry too and feverish but he had no headache and his thoughts seemed to be functioning as clearly and swiftly as always boy i sure need a bath and drink and something to eat he thought then realized that the others would be feeling the same way
013398_13941_000091 i think we should try it it seems safe from all the evidence here i have faith enough in jack's ability to trust him to have made the fluid correctly
013398_13941_000092 at his question they all looked up astonished and he continued there's the small matter of getting the colonial board's approval of our claim against the counterclaim we feel so sure bogin is coming in to make
013422_13858_000000 however at the present juncture he did not appear to resent ogden's appearance notwithstanding the young man's share in the episode at the bank perhaps he looked upon him as a serviceable prop in another bad quarter of an hour yes mr brainard
013422_13858_000001 and this was the most that he permitted himself but mcdowell was in the sensitive state of mind when one word does the work of three and in the irritable state of mind when talk is such a relief that three words
013422_13858_000002 abbie withdrew her hand with a quiet dignity she seemed to put but a moderate value on these protestations
013422_13858_000003 his teeth for the inner membrane of his lips his long lean fingers were interlaced and a clicking sound came from his snapping his fingernails together it was clearly no occasion for more than a partial statement of ogden's matter
013422_13858_000004 ogden sighed unconsciously he had fancied the first ray of social illumination as falling upon this benighted family but it was only the last faint glow of a speeding twilight after all
013422_13858_000005 my private life is nobody's business i say i'm worth the money that may work on the stage it won't work quite so close to the pulpit
013422_13858_000006 come now i know a little something about your daily doings plenty of men sing who don't hang around race-tracks and loaves in pool-rooms and from what i hear you're helping that young brainard along at a good gait too you'd better wait along with the others
013422_13858_000007 the first thing in doing business he said is to have an office to do it in he looked about his own his desk his cashier's window his letterpress
013422_13858_000008 but i don't think we are likely ever to change change called her father suddenly i wouldn't live anywhere else if you paid me to what's better than this
013422_13858_000009 so attached murmured her mother vaguely mrs valentine continued for some time further to flutter her hands her clothing and her conversation but she was very slow about getting up and fluttering away
013422_13858_000010 god knows i've got enough to do already but kittie's affairs are mine she has equal interests with the others and she seems to feel that i am able and willing to look after them
013422_13858_000011 i believe we are satisfied where we are fanny she said in a low and even tone we have always lived here we feel more at home in this house than we could anywhere else
013422_13858_000012 evoke thirty in reply he met george's belief and modest suggestions with a hitching of his shoulders and answered them in a harsh and strident tone
013422_13858_000013 and the second is to know how to do it he looked out of the window in a wholly impersonal way but his words had a more personal slant than he would have given them at almost any other time
013422_13858_000014 george looked at him silently there's tax sales i guess you never went to one of them you'd strike a bloodthirsty crew if you did supposing you've got a mortgage and the mortgager don't come to time with his taxes
013422_13858_000015 her manner had been as straightforward and sensible as it always was but never mind he should try again he was only too certain of soon finding her alone
013422_13858_000016 she was a neighbor and her return home was a matter of three minutes ogden's return was a matter of nearly an hour and he left first he carried away the discontented feeling of a young man whose aim in the direction of a young woman is frustrated by the presence of
013422_13858_000017 waitings be hanged i'm here for money money that's mine if i can't work it with the man who pays out the loaves and fishes i'll try one of the men that contribute them in the first place he tossed his head insultingly towards the door that led to ingles's office
013422_13858_000018 some one of those township politicians or other has got a friend that's a carpenter now who's going to tackle the boards and stave off such things
013422_13858_000019 uncongenial elders and irrelevant outsiders he had been quite certain of his ability to meet abbie brainard after the bank episode without any particular embarrassment or restraint
013422_13858_000020 um no he said in a offhand way too near the lake fog damp rheumatism and pneumonia too perhaps his wife suggested feebly
013422_13858_000021 certainly he had come to view with more interest a girl whose hand had lain in his and whose head had rested on his shoulder there had been no embarrassment in her greeting of him
013422_13858_000022 say you've got ten acres or so just beyond the limit some fine day it's a six hundred dollars or more for half a mile of sidewalk a sidewalk that won't be walked on by seven people a week what's the reason oh
013422_13858_000023 there was a light burning in it and the fireplace showed the faint red of the dying coals a valise open and half unpacked stood in the middle of the floor and sitting up in the bed was brower busy with the last volume of monte cristo
013422_13858_000024 you've got to buy them up to protect yourself and you've got to get there first last year i fought this point for a week with one of those tax sharks and so it goes real estate is no kindergarten business i can tell you the truth of this view was becoming more and more apparent to ogden
013422_13858_000025 he withdrew after some further parleyings in a confused and inconclusive state of mind well convinced however of mcdowell's abilities and more fully conscious of mcdowell's position as the husband of his father's daughter
013422_13858_000026 besides mrs ogden with a multitude of a small experiences had no ability for grasping things in a large and general way while george with a broader and more comprehensive outlook was embarrassed by a lack of experience in the actual details of a business transactions
013422_13858_000027 and besides being handicapped as to occasion they were further hampered by mcdowell's new relation to them and by their own presence under his roof
013422_13858_000028 the thousands of acres of ramshackle that made up the bulk of the city and the tens of thousands of raw and ugly and half-built prairie that composed its environs seemed together to constitute a great checker-board over whose squares of section
013422_13858_000029 added to this he was a newcomer under all newcomer's disadvantages he hardly knew where to turn for the proper agents legal or financial that might have been employed
013422_13858_000030 good all through and kind of capable that is he was a worth a salary of for eighteen hundred a year or two thousand he married a girl worth two thousand a month
013422_13858_000031 no head bookkeeper no cashier no secretary could she let him be after that no johnny must be his own master except as regarded her
013422_13858_000032 in the township keenness and rapacity played their daring and wary game and through the middle of the board ran a line a hinge a crack
013422_13858_000033 the brainard house reared itself in the same frivolous ugliness that we have already viewed but an excess of light came through the front parlor windows and ogden was prepared to find that at least four of the eight burners in the big chandeliers were lighted
013422_13858_000034 everything with some good real estate firm and let them look after repairs and collections and taxes his mother fixed a pair of her anxious eyes upon him and the wrinkles of her perplexity appeared on her forehead eugene is real estate
013422_13858_000035 while many of the agencies and courts for instance were different in procedure and even in a name from anything he had known east all the same though
013422_13858_000036 the old people and some friends valentines valentine i used to know valentine nice quiet fellow light complexion his name was alpheus no adrian that's the one
013422_13858_000037 he said to his mother things ought to be in a different shape for you i'm bound hand and foot in that bank no time or thought for anything outside i don't know but what you'd better put
013422_13858_000038 today he sort oh hangs on the outskirts of business and picks up a little here and a little there he has desk room somewhere in the clifton i believe he does the best he can to preserve his self-respect but i don't see how he can pay the bills and the house rent too
013422_13858_000039 the same line that loomed up in ad those various deeds and abstracts of his with the portentousness and inescapability of the equator the line of the third principal meridian
013422_13858_000040 poor fellow he deserves a better fate what's the matter with him his wife owns him george smiled brower hitched himself on his pillow and put his finger into the book to keep the place he was a first-rate fellow
013422_13858_000041 this turned out to be the case it was as great a tribute as the family ordinarily paid to society the family he found represented by brainard his wife and his elder daughter
013422_13858_000042 or those lawyers he went on anyway you ought to have an account as administratrix with some bank i believe i'll open one tomorrow something has got to be done to make things quicker and clearer
013422_13858_000043 he presently took upon himself the delicate task of intimating to mcdowell that a simpler and more regular way of doing things was desired
013422_13858_000044 society was present in the shape of a young couple who were called mr and mrs valentine the elder daughter received him with a quiet and simple cordiality he could not help looking about furtively for the possible presence of the younger
013422_13858_000045 brower gave a second hitch to the pillow and threw the book to the foot of the bed he's another he's had a trip in the same boat why he isn't married
013422_13858_000046 mcdowell's elbow rested on the edge of his desk his thumb on the tip of his ear and his middle finger rubbing his farther eyebrow as he looked out steadily on vibert from under his hand
013422_13858_000047 i guess he is just about as hard as any man ever was but he has fought through gallantly i say that for him what's his story
013422_13858_000048 he went up to mcdowell's office in the later part of the afternoon as he entered a tall dark man was standing in the middle of the room there was a sinister look in his eyes and a contemptuously sarcastic smile on his heavy red lips
013422_13858_000049 the old man had refused to see her or to let her see him the most that he would yield was a species of non-committal communication through burt
013422_13858_000050 he had not remained ignorant of her half hour wait in a cab outside the bank but he might have surmised the inflexibility of her father's will
013422_13858_000051 hitherto the financial arrangements of the church had gone on with the same precision as its anthems and its processionals in the present condition of things delay to vibert was more than a surprise more than an embarrassment it was an exasperation
013422_13858_000052 her husband in fact had fallen upon her crushed her absorbed her as a heavy blotting-pad falls on a page of light and delicate writing except for one thing she had no aim no occupation no diversion beyond her ills and remedies
013422_13858_000053 i'm going to fix up all the salaries next week in one batch i don't see why any particular man should be favored favored repeated vibert with a loud insolence
013422_13858_000054 begins in the same way she was a rich too and a high flyer he had education and family and his profession and no money he struggled up for ten years and now now he stand on his own legs his wife has her own money for her clothes and amusements
013422_13858_000055 i don't sing for glory he had declared with an offensive brusqueness it's the here and not the hereafter that i'm busy with mcdowell looked at him uneasily
013422_13858_000056 it was thus with mrs brainard she played a good many games with herself every day and they really soothed and rested her on the social board however she had hardly learned the first opening
013422_13858_000057 he saw he had got to strike society and he struck it hard he costs like smoke but he snatched victory from defeat it was a great act speaking of act who do you think i saw there in the stage box tonight who
013422_13858_000058 so i can't try again today but i expect to find this all right after ten tomorrow morning he gave his hand a hardy flip across one side of his dark moustache and passed out mcdowell looked after him sorely damn the brute he muttered
013422_13858_000059 and the entertainment of the brilliant young couple now in her house fell almost altogether on abbie for the girl's mother sank back into a passive silence while her father toured through the rooms occasionally and threw out remarks more or less apropos
013422_13858_000060 this was a penchant for chess to those who object that chess is an intellectual game one may simply put the question have you ever seen it taken up by elderly invalided female who has a rested content with a mere learning of the moves
013422_13858_000061 mcdowell contracted his eyes to a critical narrowness you may not be singing much longer for anything else either that's another matter it isn't you that put the choir together
013422_13858_000062 i might as well make a complete sweep an out and out break i've always had a fancy for that part of town so i sent adrian around to the different offices she threw a look of passing reference with her husband who made a little bow in return
013422_13858_000063 most of these callers would gulp down once with such smile as they could master the old man's abrupt ways and disconcerting comments then they got out of the house in good order and never came back
013422_13858_000064 joseph he called to his clerk bring me that checkbook the man opened a lower drawer and brought out a book whose covers enclosed a number of stubs and three or four banks checks mcdowell wrote and passed the check to vibert who went out with no further words on either side
013422_13858_000065 mcdowell tapped his fingers on the yellow varnish of his desk i don't know about that from what i hear you're not making the sort of record for yourself that's useful in a church
013422_13858_000066 i should say not i don't feel favored in running my legs off for money three weeks overdue we can't live on air we have bills to pay we ain't singing for the pleasure of it
013422_13858_000067 the capacity experience and accumulation of a man over thirty-five or forty he regarded every intruder in the light of a potential son-in-law and no more potential than undesirable
013422_13858_000068 in a gruff and abrupt fashion peculiar to himself his manner with young men had simply closed the house to them to him it was an inexplicable and harassing thing that a young fellow of twenty-five should not possess
013422_13858_000069 is really my p p c ogden glanced at the husband of the lady whose use of the first person singular was so frank and continuous he was a young man with a pleasant and amiable face and that face was set in a meek little smile
013422_13858_000070 i thought it best to have him to dinner once or twice and i'm glad i did hes been so interested all through there hasn't been the least hitch to speak of and i expect to get in within a fortnight this she went on turning to ogden with an undiminished vivacity
013422_13858_000071 george looked at him studiously he appeared to be in a state of extreme nervous irritation his wiry moustache moved up and down stiffly as he felt about with
013422_13858_000072 and i had the good luck to get a lot on the bellevue place one of the last left and only a block from lake shore drive then i went to mr atwater and he has made my house a perfect little dream
013422_13858_000073 from whose forced line the element of the deception was most pitifully lacking yes abbie dear mrs valentine went on i'm afraid it's goodbye or nearly the same thing she took the girl's hand within her own and gave it repeated pats in a rather careless and self-absorbed way
013422_13858_000074 mcdowell did some figuring and saw some people and somewhat later vibert returned he threw his check on mcdowell's desk contemptuously that's no good
013422_13858_000075 he picked up a ruler and drew the red ink bottle a little nearer i'll fix it sorry to have troubled you we want to look out for this joseph vibert withdrew speaking the words that ogden had heard on his entrance
013422_14478_000000 if an introduction is made by a relative of the man introduced the men would shake hands and not merely bow this holds equally good where intimate friends are
013422_14478_000001 and should introduce any gentleman to any lady without previously consulting the lady if she thinks introduction will prove agreeable to her when introducing ladies to each other she should give married ladies the ladies of rank
013422_14478_000002 in the case of a one person having expressed a wish to make the acquaintance of another there remains but the wishes of one person to ascertain acquiescence having been given the introduction should be made in making an introduction the lady of lowest rank
013422_14478_000003 unless some special reason exists for so doing a lady as a rule should not introduce gentlemen to each other unless one of them is her host when it would be correct to do so
013422_14478_000004 how to act on occasion of an introduction is determined almost entirely upon the reason for its being made and by whom and to whom the person is introduced even the locale has something to do with it and thus a variety of issues are raised upon which an
013422_14478_000005 the lady of highest rank should take the initiative introductions at public balls it is erroneous to suppose that it is the duty of stewards to make introductions at public balls it is the exception and not the rule for the steward
013422_14478_000006 a chaperone is responsible for the acquaintances a young lady forms while under her charge at a ball and if amongst her own friends and acquaintances
013422_14478_000007 otherwise the introduction would be of no avail for the purpose and prove a disappointment to the lady would you like to be introduced to miss a or some such polite phrase see the art of conversing
013422_14478_000008 in the outlying district of town it has its advantages when to make a call amounts to almost a journey and when acquaintances are few in the immediate neighbourhood again it has its advantages when
013422_14478_000009 by the number of visitors who call during the afternoon and when at home days are not a success socially speaking she should discontinue them after a certain time and should substitute an occasional
013422_14478_000010 place aux dames it is not usual to ascertain a gentleman's wishes as to whether he will be introduced to a lady or not although at a ball it is usual to do so when the introduction is made for a special object viz
013422_14478_000011 when a steward who is a stranger to herself offers to introduce a man who is evidently a stranger to him which fact she gathers by his saying this gentleman wishes to be introduced to your daughter or by his asking the stranger his name before making the introduction
013422_14478_000012 or before dinner is announced or after dinner or when calling when people are introduced to them or when they themselves are introduced half an exception occurs it is true at crowded at homes
013422_14478_000013 that of obtaining a partner for a lady and as a gentleman may be either unable or unwilling to ask the lady to dance it is incumbent to ascertain beforehand whether the introduction is desired or not
013422_14478_000014 it depends not a little on the social standing of the lady who has an at home day and upon the locality in which she lives as to whether the at home day is a failure or the reverse
013422_14478_000015 that all newcomers whether they are to become permanent or temporary resident providing their social position warrants the action hasten to make known their arrival by writing their names and addresses in the visitors book kept at each government house for the purpose
013422_14478_000016 be visitors of other resident or intending resident holds equally good both in civilian and military circles alike in all colonies and dependencies government house is the centre of which all society gravitates that is to say
013422_14478_000017 should be introduced to the lady of highest rank in no case should the lady of her highest rank be introduced to the lady of lowest rank this point of etiquette should always be strictly observed
013422_14478_000018 when to rise and talk to the lady introduced is almost a necessity there is no vacant seat for her to take and therefore if both do not stand conversation is at the law
013522_13558_000000 sorely sorely did the old woman suffer remorse for her conduct and with it there mingled a terrible doubt that after all reginald might have loved valerie very truly
013522_13558_000001 yes she would retain the casket if her father was angry at her doing so for a while he would know all before long she stole into his room to take one last look at him before she went away he was sleeping calmly now she crept to the bedside
013522_13558_000002 and yet he dreaded to discover their love to his father the only possible way by which he could secure valerie and yet not endanger his position with his father was a secret marriage
013522_13558_000003 good heavens this cannot last long i fear she is sinking from sheer weakness poor child the food had run short now you must try and make her some strong beef-tea
013522_13558_000004 a lost and half starved creature which had followed her to the door and pleaded so piteously for food and shelter that she had taken it in and adopted it
013522_13558_000005 now the baron was a general a soldier by profession and the nobles who would have admitted the hereditary claims of the count if the country only had required defence were wisely appreciative of experience and ability
013522_13558_000006 no i have hardly been out of doors since ah you should make the most of this weather it will not last long you see the leaves are turning already look they have even begun to fall
013522_13558_000007 and he bitterly repented the misery he had as he knew only too well entailed upon her when at length he obtained his freedom he flew without a moment's delay to find her he had been put ashore on the point of the essex bank of the thames nearest to bincester
013522_13558_000008 and then this hard old woman with her handsome face as stern as if it were chiseled out of stone left the room and poor valerie went through her dark hour alone missus booth had triumphed
013522_13558_000009 to persuade valerie no matter by what means to forego her claim to be reginald's wife it was a hard savage design from one woman to another
013522_13558_000010 the good woman repeated the toast but didn't drink the wine which she pronounced sour as vinegar on this day the schoolmaster was laid aside and the count de lavalle presided at the frugal table
013522_13558_000011 we shall have fogs and damps soon when balfern woods will not be the best place for a promenade he fell into his old place by her side and they strolled along talking pleasantly
013522_13558_000012 one of them known as the de lavalle topaz beingregarded especially with almost superstitious veneration the count had been a widower some three years or so
013522_13558_000013 kissed his hand and bathed it with tears as she did so she heard him murmur lost lost take her out of my sight
013522_13558_000014 provided only that he was ensured against discomfort or loss it was rather to prepare against any extremity which might endanger his secret than with a desire for her well-being and peace of mind that he gave valerie the address of his old nurse
013522_13558_000015 her father was far from delighted at the acquisition morhleuy if it had been an italian greyhound or a well-bred dog of any description but this mongrel ma chere valerie i fear you have not taste this of a de lavalle
013522_13558_000016 an utter forgetfulness of all sympathy for her sex but you remember that misses booth had only one tender place in her heart her affection for the boy she had nursed
013522_13558_000017 i will ride home as quickly as i can and send you some restoratives and tonics this is a terrible change he took his guinea never noticing how poor valerie had to struggle with an inclination to ask him to let her keep it and wait a little for his fee
013522_13558_000018 he ruled his household as if it had been a man-of-war and his language and bearing were those of the quarter-deck and among his strongest and most enduring prejudices was a hatred of france and frenchmen
013522_13558_000019 he might even now be longing to find her wondering where she was and brokenhearted at her loss but it was too late
013522_13558_000020 as may be imagined poor valerie had little enough money she and mrs booth had to binge sorely to make both ends meet and as a consequence poor little aimee had but few toys or childish treasures
013522_13558_000021 valerie hastened home and taking a peep at her child went down to prepare the beef-tea with the poor scrap of meat she had purchased how tedious the process seemed the tiny teacupfull of water stood simmering slowly it seemed an hour
013522_13558_000022 and had hurried at once across country to find her or her father and now at length he was on the road to clasp her once more to his heart and ask her pardon
013522_13558_000023 sometimes an unguarded whisper would reach valerie's ear poor little thing there's death in that face then she would snatch her child to her heart gaze into her dear face and try to read the doom which others saw there
013522_13558_000024 time rolled on and no news of reginald came the old woman was delighted at this at first for it made her cases stronger and gave her poison time to work but presently she became alarmed
013522_13558_000025 when the question was one of their own personal safety so the count de lavalle retired to his chateau in disgust he had troubled himself he said to assemble a force for the protection of these others and they disregarded the honour
013522_13558_000026 if you are as fond of him as you say you must see that his whole career is spoilt by your marriage and he might have aimed so high if i were placed as you are i would never ask for recognition
013522_13558_000027 but it was kindly veiled from her she kissed the little white brow and did not see the seal set there she looked into the eyes but did not perceive the strange fatal light in them
013522_13558_000028 it was only natural that when she saw other little folk in possession of beautiful dolls she should sigh at times for something like them and then her mother would tell her that she should have one when her ship came home
013522_13558_000029 he had therefore preserved in preserving his tide of the eules at once the hopes and the traditions of his family its future and its past
013522_13558_000030 good heavens woman what are you counselling for the happiness of the man you profess to be ready to die for this is not as much as dying you will still be his wife in reality whatever the world may think
013522_13558_000031 reginald balfern his son had been brought up in slavish fear and obedience as might be expected he did not know what it was to have a wish or will of his own in opposition to his father
013522_13558_000032 who was a pensioner of the family living down by the sea coast in her native village in any difficulty he told valerie to write to her in a few days he had sailed
013522_13558_000033 and when he had drunk the toast with great grace and dignity and valerie had jumped up and flung her arms round his neck and kissed him he brought out all that was left him of the de lavalle estates the casket of jewels and his sword
013522_13558_000034 she kept running up and down between the bedroom and the kitchen trembling with anxiety and terror for she could not but see that poor aimee was sinking faster and still faster
013522_13558_000035 but she is reserved and silent and even those who bless her have seldom seen her it is supposed that she and her husband sir reginald live no less happily together than other married people
013522_13558_000036 dont smile for heavens sake dear reader but it was positively a race between the childs life and that necessarily slow process of cooking
013522_13558_000037 by degrees aimee began to look forward to that event and to connect it with a great many things mamma will my little girl in the picture come and play with me when the ship comes home she asked one day
013522_13558_000038 poor valerie so young so inexperienced so innocent she little know of the terrible consequences of her promise it was only one sweet hope that she saw of the future the dark terrible side was disregarded
013522_13558_000039 he made a long and impressive speech to valerie bidding her remember that she was the last of the noble line and pointing out to her the duties and responsibilities that devolved upon her
013522_13558_000040 but my father my good name what is he to your husband and your good name i thought you said you would die for him
013522_13558_000041 until he met valerie when love as usual broke down all barriers but reginald still stood in terrible awe of the admiral and dreaded above all things that he should learn how his son was paying attention to a frenchman's daughter
013522_13558_000042 she smoothed the pale cheek and did not feel the deadly damp she toyed with the golden curls and never saw their brightness was borrowed from light of another world
013522_13558_000043 it was the only means of earning a living that was possible for him he was fitted for nothing else as was the case with the very many of the french refugees who found shelter in england about this time
013522_13558_000044 ah this is worse than death mrs booth childish nonsense and for this babyish stuff you would make him lose his position
013522_13558_000045 then he placed the casket in her hand and making a tender allusion to the time when she bore those heirlooms in safety from the burning chateau told her the jewels were hers henceforth there is my child another priceless jewel which you have in your keeping
013522_13558_000046 above and beyond this reginald was selfish irredeemably selfish and if he feared to disobey his father by force of his education in the dread of his wrath he also was anxious not to suffer the consequences of that disobedience
013522_13558_000047 at last however the beef tea was ready and valerie poured it into a cup which she stood in a bowl of cold water to cool it and then she hurried up with it to the child's room
013522_13558_000048 lady balfern takes a key from a jewel casket which contains nothing beside and going to the nursery unlocks a cupboard there
013522_13558_000049 and her mother covered her with kisses and told her some fond foolish story about the little girl and how she was sailing in the ship and what a beautiful ship it was and how full of riches and that they were all for this pet amy of mamas
013522_13558_000050 but the day of anguish and trial and tribulation came at last it is impossible to describe the horror and anger of monsieur delaval when he discovered as he believed the shame which had fallen on his house
013522_13558_000051 wretched girl how long is it since i told you that the honour of the house of de lavalle was in your keeping poor valerie who had sunk into a chair at the first outburst of the storm could only rock to and fro with a low moaning
013522_13558_000052 how often the child's prattle wrung the poor mother's heart there was once a terrible anguish for poor valerie in the little one's words it was during the summer when halborough could boast its visitors and made believe it was a watering place
013522_13558_000053 there she would stay for hours and her mother who now occupied the little room behind the shop used to hear her incessantly talking to her little girl in the picture
013522_13558_000054 i do not understand you who will respect him when he has for a wife the discarded and suspected daughter of a french teacher at a school in binchester
013522_13558_000055 as she opened the door she saw aimee sitting up in the bed mamma mamma my little girl is here to play with me so the ship has come home
013522_13558_000056 in that cupboard there lie a child's clothes of a very coarse material carefully folded with a pair of little shoes on top of them
013522_13558_000057 although not personally popular among his pupils monsieur delaval for the count changed his name as well as dropped his title soon became well known in bincester and all round about as a most successful teacher
013522_13558_000058 the honour of the de lavalles guard it well for there must be a restoration of our rights some day until then you have the jewels and i the sword and monsieur le comte de lavalle
013522_13558_000059 the old gentleman however had his family pride and there was no fear of reginald's being superseded as long as he did nothing to bring himself into disgrace
013522_13558_000060 and he never endangered his authority by allowing familiarity or anything remotely approaching it to grow up between himself and those he taught his one fault was a hasty temper but he kept it in great subjection
013522_13558_000061 he might forgive his marrying the child of an english beggar in the streets but not the daughter of a french king ah me what is to be done sighed valerie but
013522_13558_000062 my father is a count in his own land said valerie proudly the old woman laughed a short sharp laugh that will be a poor recommendation to my old master
013522_13558_000063 i am so tired mamma was her constant complaint she was sickening her mother saw it with what alarm can be readily imagined she sent for the doctor but he only shook his head and ordered a nourishing diet and wine
013522_13558_000064 his manner was cold even stern but he spoke always to the point and so clearly and decidedly that he seldom failed to impress his words on the recollection of his hearers
013522_13558_000065 wound the flannel bandages in which his sword was carefully swathed solemnly imprinted a kiss on the glittering blade and lifted it silently towards heaven
013522_13558_000066 the next day the schoolmaster was a soon once more and the nobleman laid by with the jewels and the sword not long after this a circumstance occurred which was fated to influence the history of the delabons
013522_13558_000067 a merry group of little ones passed by frolicking and laughing round their father papa papa was constantly on their lips and was carried by their cheery voices to where the two were sitting on the sand hills
013522_13558_000068 she had of late begun to dread this but she never thoroughly realized it until it came what have i done said the old man fiercely that this dishonour falls upon me in my old age that my grey hairs are disgraced
013522_13558_000069 man dieu what have i done to deserve this as he glanced upwards defiantly almost his eye caught the sword which hung over the mantelpiece he snatched it down and tore off the covering
013522_13558_000070 and the little spirit was free and fluttered up from that dark desolate chamber into gods presence and all the brightness of heaven oh my darling my treasure
013522_13558_000071 valerie and the child were sitting on the sand hills the mother working and aimee at her usual occupation watching the sails in the oven and wondering whether any of them belonged to her vessel
013522_13558_000072 by and by poor amy was too tired to sit at the window she used to lie on her bed with her eyes fixed on the portrait over the mantelpiece sometimes talking to it and sometimes singing snatches of song in her low voice
013522_13558_000073 his father had been married a second time to a widow with two grown-up daughters and there was no love lost between him and his stepmother who was very anxious to contrive the usurpation of his place in his father's affections by her daughters
013522_13558_000074 then the jewel casket was once more in requisition and what she had hoped to make last for the winter was sold at once the jeweller at bradshall to whom she sent them was astonished at the beauty of a large topaz which was among them
013522_13558_000075 true you are my friend i know my duty then turning to valerie he said in a harsh hoarse whisper his name but she only stretched out one hand deprecatingly and sobbed as though her heart were breaking
013522_13558_000076 oh how i wish i could go see it sailing in with its purple silk sails and its gold mast and its fluttering flags will papa come with the ship mama
013522_13558_000077 valerie was in terrible distress and anguish and did all she could to release her pet but in vain chichine hading exhausted all means of extricating herself
013522_13558_000078 in very extreme cases he had been roused to the expression of his feelings in words though passionate and strong these words never approached vulgar abuse or sank into shrewish invective
013522_13558_000079 valerie felt that her father's pride would rebel against the concealment the future looked very dark do you think said the old woman after a pause that i was not born and educated for something better than a nurse's place
013522_13558_000080 and valerie was kneeling by the bedside clasping the poor little corpse to her heart as if she could cling to the life that was gone and retain it but it was only the empty casket of her jewel that she held
013522_13558_000081 liar as well dishonoured you have lost for ever the good name of the de lavalles which was entrusted to your keeping tell me his accursed name that i may wash out this stain in his blood
013522_13558_000082 clasping the tiny dead hand lost to everything save the recollection of her child and insensible to all outward sights and sounds
013522_13558_000083 she was content to wait patiently for years calm in the consciousness of his love the knowledge of that seemed the perfection of happiness and she needed nothing more
013522_13558_000084 was lying on her side panting and looking askance at her mistress who was endeavouring to undo the cruel wire let me assist you said a mans voice valerie looked up and saw a tall handsome looking young man standing beside her
013522_13558_000085 valerie was almost choked with the effort to repress her anguish she could not speak will he come too when the ship comes momma
013522_13558_000086 he laid all this before valerie and begged her to keep her engagement a secret which she readily consented to do he was hers that was enough
013522_13558_000087 and even the fire that was consuming her heart could not warm it into existence she was obliged to yield to the bitter knowledge at last and then stunned and numb with the mental agony she rose from her knees and sat on the edge of the bed
013522_13558_000088 but perhaps when my reginald comes home he will let me tell papa and then we can wait patiently i do not value even my good name so much as reginald's happiness
013522_13558_000089 dont you know that your father will be only too delighted to blurt out the secret it isnt every man whose daughter can marry a ballfern
013522_13558_000090 stupidity of the most hopelessly crass description could not wear out his patience inattention and idleness he was decided with but they never listed any token of anger from him
013522_13558_000091 but he paid her none the more handsomely for his astonishment poor valerie friendless helpless and hopeless it was no wonder that she turned to her father now she wrote him a long sorrowful letter and implored his aid
013894_13131_000000 and now first translated out of french into english by henry lyte esquire the illustrations used in the book were the same as those which had appeared in the translation by de l'ecluse
013894_13131_000001 the descriptions and figures of the herbs are arranged alphabetically all the plants discussed were natives of germany or in cultivation there and the object of the work seems to have been to help the reader to the use of cheap and easily obtained remedies in case of illnesses or accident
013894_13131_000002 the most attractive is perhaps that of the dodder climbing on a plant with flowers and pots text figure seventy-seven which is drawn in a masterly fashion these woodcuts form the basis of nearly all botanical illustrations for the next half-century being copied and recopied from book to book
013894_13131_000003 till that i have seen the west country which i never saw yet in all my life which country of all places of england as i hear say is most richly replenished with all kinds of strange and wonderful works and gifts of nature as are stones herbs fishes and metals
013894_13131_000004 the goose tree is also figured by de l'obel and d'alchamps but it is refreshing to find that colonna in his future basins  fifteen ninety two flatly denies the truth of the legend
013894_13131_000005 this was by no means unreasonable in their case since it was the plants of the mediterranean region that dioscorides had enumerated when however brunfels attempted to employ the same methods in his examination of the flora of the strasburg district and the left bank of the rhine many difficulties and discrepancies arose
013894_13131_000006 bock seems to have been a keen collector although hampered by ill health and a great point in his favour is that he described only those plants which had come under his own personal observation
013894_13131_000007 and were for the most part copies of those in the octavo edition of fuchs's herbal with some additional blocks which had been cut specially for dodoens the result is that many of the same figures occur both in turner and in lyte there are said to be eight hundred seventy figures in lyte's herbal of which about thirty are new
013894_13131_000008 whose initials appear on the portrait of bock reproduced in text figure twenty-six the wood cuts of trees in the third part of the book are particularly noticeable see text figures twenty-eight and ninety-two and are often made more interesting by the introduction of figures of men and animals
013894_13131_000009 bock's chief claim to remembrance however does not lie in his figures but in his descriptions which were a great advance on those previously published he was careful also to note the mode of occurrence and localities of the plants mentioned and in this feature his work showed some approach to a flora in the modern sense of the word
013894_13131_000010 he adds insult to injury by gratuitously remarking in an address to the reader at the beginning of the herbal that doctor priest one of our london college hath as i heard translated the last edition of dodonus
013894_13131_000011 that he could get no information on the subject even from physicians he claims that his herbal has considerable originality a claim which seems well founded in his own words
013894_13131_000012 nearly one third of the figures of herbs are new the rest are copied on a reduced scale from the german herbarius and the drawing which is by no means improved often shows that the copyist did not fully understand the nature of the object he was attempting to portray
013894_13131_000013 terrestris a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our english ayre will permitt to be noursed up together with the right orderinge planting and preserving of them and their uses and vertues
013894_13131_000014 this success was however achieved in the teeth of much adverse contemporary criticism folks in the preface of his historias de pion fifteen forty two referred with unsparing touch to egenolph's botanical mistakes his trenchant indictment may be rendered into english as follows
013894_13131_000015 the knowledge of how to think he had however the defects of his qualities and his reverence for the classics led him into an inelastic and over literal acceptance of aristotelian conceptions
013894_13131_000016 and certainly if we accept his account of the state of knowledge at the time the need for such a book must have been most urgent he explains that while he was still at pembroke hall cambridge he endeavoured to learn the names of plants but such was the ignorance in simples at that time
013894_13131_000017 which meant to publish the same but being prevented by death his translation likewise perished after the manner of the period the herbal is embellished with a number of prefatory letters in one of which written by stephen bredwell the statement occurs which is so inconsistent with gerard's own remarks
013894_13131_000018 the importance of gerard's herball in the history of botany is chiefly due to an improved edition brought out by thomas johnson in sixteen thirty-three thirty six years after the work was originally published johnson was an apothecary in london and cultivated a physic garden on snow hill
013894_13131_000019 as an example of a wood-cut which has lost much of its character in copying we may take the daughter compare texas eighty and seventy seven the ortus sanitatis is very rich in pictures
013894_13131_000020 the preface to this work is entirely at variance with the idea that scientific knowledge has only been gradually acquired by the human race in parkinson's words
013894_13131_000021 also how he afterwards formed the four elements fire hot and dry air hot and moist water cold and moist earth dry and cold and gave to each a nature of its own and how after this the same great master of nature made and formed herbs of many sorts and animals of all kinds and last of all man
013894_13131_000022 one of the sections of which it is composed is concerned with an account of a large number of trees and herbs arranged in alphabetical order and is chiefly occupied with their medicinal properties it also includes some theoretical considerations about plants on aristotelian lines
013894_13131_000023 he explains that while waiting to complete his herbal he has been advised to publish this little book in which he has set forth the names of plants he adds and because men should not think that i write of that i never saw and that apothecaries should be excuseless when as the right herbs are required of them
013894_13131_000024 cesalpino's strength lay in the fact that he took a remarkably broad view of the subject and approached it as a trained thinker he had learned the best lesson greek thought had to offer to the scientific worker
013894_13131_000025 it has lately become accessible in the form of a facsimile reprint the words paradisi in sole form a pun upon the author's name and may be translated of park in sun the book was dedicated to queen henrietta maria with the prayer that she will accept this speaking garden
013894_13131_000026 god the creator of heaven and earth at the beginning when he created adam inspired him with the knowledge of all natural things which successively descended to noah afterwards and to his posterity
013894_13131_000027 may easily perceive that i taught the truth of certain plants which these above named writers either knew not at all or else erred in them greatly so it as i learned something of them so they ether might or did learn something of me again as their second editions may testify
013894_13131_000028 with this introduction we may pass on to the preface of the herbarius zu teutsch many a time and oft have i contemplated inwardly the wondrous works of the creator of the universe how in the beginning he formed the heavens and adorned them with goodly shining stars to which he gave power and might to influence everything under heaven
013894_13131_000029 the chief tangible contribution which cesalpino made to botanical science was his insistence on the prime importance of the organs of fructification this was the idea on which he chiefly laid stress in his system of classification to which we shall return in a later chapter
013894_13131_000030 from the botanical point of view they represent a considerable advance since the details of floral structure are often shown on an enlarged scale camerarius was a good observer and his travels furnished him with much information regarding the localities for the plants which he described
013894_13131_000031 by the temperament of a man is understood the balance or proportion maintained between these conflicting tendencies the particular virtues of each plant in other words the power of restoring lost health or temperament are determined by the principles which it contains and the proportions in which these occur
013894_13131_000032 the royal fern osmunda was traditionally supposed to bear seed upon st john's eve though ferns were generally believed at that time to have no organs of fructification to test this statement bock four times spent the night in the forest he found small black seed like poppy seed
013894_13131_000033 among all the herbals which exist today there are none which have more of the crassest errors than those which egenolph the printer has already published again and again
013894_13131_000034 the editions produced under the auspices of adam lonicer the publisher's son-in-law are particularly well known no other botanical work of the period had a success comparable to that of his long series of books of which rhodion's kreutterbuch was the prototype
013894_13131_000035 than the date of their publication would seem to suggest this characteristic is illustrated in the encyclopdia of bartholomus anglicus and in konrad von megenberg's das puch der natur which were perhaps the earliest printed books containing strictly botanical information
013894_13131_000036 they that have read the first part of my herbal and have compared my writings of plants with those things that matthiolus fuchsius tragus and dodoneus wrote in the first editions of their herbals
013894_13131_000037 this statement fuchs supports by means of actual examples it must nevertheless be admitted that even if their quality was poor the herbals published by egenolph and his successors did good service in disseminating some knowledge of the plant world among a very wide public
013894_13131_000038 that he certainly committed an oversight in allowing it to stand in bredwell's words d priest for his translation of so much of dodonus hath hereby left a tomb for his honorable sepulture master gerard coming last but not the least hath in many ways accommodated the whole work unto our english nation
013894_13131_000039 he had no understanding of the geographical distribution of plants and did not realise that different regions have dissimilar floras it is curious that this should have been so when we remember that theophrastus more than eighteen hundred years earlier
013894_13131_000040 and to these he added a fifth the ether in the four elements the four principles are combined in pairs fire being characterised by heat and dryness air by heat and moisture water by cold and moisture and earth by cold and dryness according to aristotle heat and cold are active while dryness and moisture are passive in their nature
013894_13131_000041 i have in my time at diverse times taken up the roots of mandrake out of the ground but i never saw any such thing upon or in them as are in and upon the peddlers roots that are comely to be sold in boxes
013894_13131_000042 which happens when heat takes to the upper hand and strives to stifle cold or on the contrary when cold begins to suppress heat or man becomes full of cold moisture or again is deprived of the due measure of moisture
013894_13131_000043 it is also to be noted that the four natures in question are also mixed and blended in the human body in a measure and temperament suitable to the life and nature of man while man keeps within this measure proportion or temperament he is strong and healthy but as soon as he steps or falls beyond the temperament or measure of the four natures
013894_13131_000044 and because i would not be like unto a crier it cryeth lost horse in the marketh and telleth all the marks and tokens that he hath and yet never saw the horse neither could know the horse if we saw him i went into italy and into diverse parts of germany to know and see the herbs myself
013894_13131_000045 the treatise on fishes begins with a landscape with water enlivened by shipping there are two figures in the foreground and in the water fishes crabs and mythical monsters such as mermen are seen disporting themselves
013894_13131_000046 in spite of the fact that he used no charm incantation or magic character but went upon his search without superstition box freedom from the credulity which permeated the work of so many of the early botanists is one of his most remarkable characteristics
013894_13131_000047 the roots which are counterfeited and made like little puppets and mammets which come to be sold in england in boxes with heir and such forme as man hath are nothing else but foolish feined trifles and not natural for they are so trimmed of crafty thieves to mock the poor people with all and to rob them of both their wit and their money
013894_13131_000048 gerard did not know enough about botany to couple the wood blocks of tabernmontanus with their appropriate descriptions and de l'obel was requested by the printer to correct the author's blunders
013894_13131_000049 it contains about eighteen hundred wood cuts nearly all from blocks used by tabernmontanus in his eicones of fifteen ninety which norton obtained from frankfort less than one per cent are original
013894_13131_000050 before the treatise on stones there is a very spirited scene representing a number of figures in a jeweller's shop and two large wood-cuts of doctors and their patients illustrate the medical portion with which the book concludes
013894_13131_000051 and before that on birds there is a lively picture with an architectural background showing a scene which swarms with innumerable birds of all kinds whose peculiarities are apparently being discussed by two savants in the foreground
013894_13131_000052 for as he was able to give names to all the living creatures according to their several natures so no doubt but he had also the knowledge both what herbs and fruits were fit either for meat or medicine for use or for delight
013894_13131_000053 as a herbal it does not rank high since zaluziansky neither recorded any new plants nor gave the bohemian localities for those already known but it opens with a survey of botany in general which is of interest as showing an approach to the modern scientific standpoint
013894_13131_000054 it is customary to connect medicine with botany yet scientific treatment demands that we should consider each separately for the fact is that in every art theory must be disconnected and separated from practice and the two must be dealt with singly and individually in their proper order before they are united
013894_13131_000055 the noblest of all created things thereupon i thought on the wondrous order which the creator gave these same creatures of his so that everything which has its being under heaven receives it from the stars and keeps it by their help
013894_13131_000056 he was born in fifteen o one at membdingen in bavaria and at an early age he became a student of the university of ferfurt where he is said to have taken a bachelor's degree in his thirteenth year
013894_13131_000057 the first edition opens with a full page woodcut modified from that at the beginning of the german herbarius and representing a group of figures who appear to be engaged in discussing some medical or botanical problem before the treatise on animals there is another large engraving of three figures with a number of beasts at their feet
013894_13131_000058 i considered further how that in everything which arises grows lives or soars in the four elements named be it metal stone herb or animal the four natures of the elements heat cold moistness and dryness are mingled
013894_13131_000059 a man whose actual achievement was small but who if he had not died so young would probably have become one of the most famous of the earlier herbalists
013894_13131_000060 elaborate directions for the planting and treatment of a garden precede an account of a large number of plants cultivated at that time with some mention of their uses the book is illustrated with full-page wood engravings of no great merit in each of which a number of different plants are represented
013894_13131_000061 and for that reason in order that botany which is as it were a special branch of physics may form a unit by itself before it can be brought into connection with other sciences it must be divided and unyoked from medicine guy de la brosse
013894_13131_000062 the herball is a massive volume in clear roman type contrasting markedly with the black letter used in the works of turner and lyte and giving the book a much more modern appearance
013894_13131_000063 this herbal contains many evidences of turner's independence of thought he fought against what he regarded as superstition in science with the same ardour with which he entered upon religious polemics the legend of the human form of the mandrake receives scant mercy at his hands as he points out
013894_13131_000064 in so far as the author pleads for the treatment of botany as a separate subject and not as a mere branch of medicine his remarks on this point may be translated as follows
013894_13131_000065 there is in the british museum a beautiful copy of the fifty and thirty sixth edition with a binding stamped in gold and bearing the arms of mary duchess of suffolk daughter of henry the seventh
013894_13131_000066 the duchess may perhaps have inherited a taste for herbals from her father for the british museum also possesses a copy of vrard's translation of the ortus sanitatis which is known to have been purchased by him
013894_13131_000067 his chapters on verbena and artemisia reflect clearly the independence of his thought he points out that the former plant is collected rather for purposes of magic than for medicine and he can hardly contain his scorn at the monkey tricks and ceremonies connected with the use of the latter
013894_13131_000068 this folio which was the foundation of the later works called hortus or ortus sanitatis appeared at mainz also from the printing press of peter schoeffer in fourteen eighty five the year following the publication of the latin
013894_13131_000069 he treats of variation within single species the sensitiveness of plants their chemistry and properties and many other topics his work is full of interest but a discussion of it would lead us beyond the bounds of our present subject
013894_13131_000070 he complains that the publication of the work has been delayed partly through the disastrous times but chiefly through the machinations of wretched and perverse men
013894_13131_000071 he apologises for the colloquialism explaining that he does not wish to be over eloquent among gentlewomen unto whom especially my works are most necessary the value of gerard's work must inevitably be at a discount
013894_13131_000072 his father euricius cordus was a physician botanist and man of letters so valerius was brought up in a fortunate environment at sixteen he graduated at the university of marburg
013894_13131_000073 a number of new illustrations are added some of which are highly imaginative the tree of life tax with the twelve and the tree of knowledge are dealt with amongst other botanical objects a woman-headed serpent being introduced in the first case and adam and eve in the second
013894_13131_000074 this scheme grew into one of a more extensive and general nature but without losing the predominant medical interest which would have characterised the work as originally planned in accordance with this intention the virtues of the herbs are dealt with in great detail
013894_13131_000075 after this he turned his attention to medicine and took a doctor's degree at ingolstadt he came under the influence of luther's writing which won him over to the reformed faith fuchs began to practise as a physician at munich but in fifteen twenty-six he returned to ingolstadt as professor of medicine
013894_13131_000076 a herbal has been defined as a book containing the names and description of herbs or of plants in general with their properties and virtues the word is believed to have been derived from a medieval latin adjective herbalis the substantive liber being understood
013894_13131_000077 after this episode the relations between the two botanists seem not unnaturally to have become somewhat strained gerard evidently aimed at conveying information in simple language for in one place where he speaks of a preparation being squirted into the eyes
013894_13131_000078 this he did according to his own account in very many places but yet not so many as he wished since gerard became impatient and summarily stopped the process of emendation on the ground that de l'obel had forgotten his english
013894_13131_000079 he seems to have been of a restless temperament which was probably accentuated by the persecution to which his protestant opinions exposed him his career for more than forty years consisted of periods of active practice alternating with periods of university teaching
013894_13131_000080 the treatise on plants is considerably modified from the german herbarius and the virtues of the herbs described are dealt with at greater length the herbarium of apuleius platonicus is more than once quoted though not by name
013894_13131_000081 of a truth i would as soon count thee the leaves on the trees or the grains of sand in the sea as the things which are the causes of a relapse from the temperament of the four natures and a beginning of man's sickness
013894_13131_000082 had clearly pointed out that the provinces of asia have each their own characteristic plants and that some which occur in one region are absent from another hieronymus bock who in his latin writings called himself targos text figure twenty-six was a contemporary of brunfels
013894_13131_000083 the earliest was published in rome late in the fifteenth century from a manuscript discovered by johannes philippus de lignamine physician to pope sixtus the fourth nothing is definitely known concerning the author but it is conjectured that he was a native of africa and that his book may date from the fifth century or possibly even the fourth
013894_13131_000084 after a period of school teaching he resumed his studies this time at the university of ingolstadt where he devoted himself chiefly to classics and became a master of arts
013894_13131_000085 it is thus exactly comparable in origin with the word manual in the sense of a hand-book four early printed editions of the herbal of apuleius platonicus are known all of which appear to have been based on different manuscripts
013894_13131_000086 he is known to have made a stay at tubingen and it is highly probable that he became personally acquainted with leonhard fuchs cordus had always longed to see under their native skies the plants about which the ancients had written and in fulfillment of this dream he undertook a long excursion into italy
013894_13131_000087 the german herbarium was much copied and translated into other languages the original set of figures being as a rule reproduced on a smaller scale according to dr payne the earliest french edition called arbolayre derived from the latin herbolarium is now an exceedingly rare book
013894_13131_000088 turner had a fine scorn for any superstitious notions he detected in the writings of his contemporaries and seems to have been particularly pleased if he could show that in any disputed matter they were wrong while the ancients for whom he had great reverence were right