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Item: One faithful, if comic, Chinese servant...
...seems their servant was asleep on the top floor. They called her, she said she was coming, there was time?...
...gets the window open. His coat is wrapped around the servant's head. She is helpless and he nearly so. He lowers her out and the crowd catches the body. He crawls out, starts to climb down, slips, tumbles. They catch him too, but his shirt is steaming. His arms and neck are fearfully scorched. He faints...
Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while?and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...