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Suddenly in the darkness a bugle sang out "Cease Firing!" feet tramped in martial unison up the road, over the slag heap. Governor Leslie, declaring martial law, had called out guardsmen to lift the siege of the Dixie Bee. From Terre Haute, twelve miles north, 820 infantrymen had arrived by...
¶"I've been called to lead the Ethiopian out of darkness. I sent the President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside...
Early one morning last week a platoon of health & humane officers appeared at the widow's house. They were armed with water pipes, through which were passed looped wires. The men fought back the cats with the pipes, forced them, into corners, slipped the looped wires around their necks, dragged...
The officers made one more sortie. In the darkness they saw five pairs of gleaming eyes. Occasionally their pipes came in contact with bodies soft and active, but not another cat could they catch. So into their wagon they piled, carefully avoiding their 31 captive cats, putted off to the...
From the Dewan, or Prime Minister, and from Babaji Rao, the Maharajah's secretary, Tutor Ackerley learned much native common sense, much native lore that he scatters rather indiscriminately throughout his book. His own pupil he saw apparently only once, but he was pestered nearly to death by his...