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A big iceberg sailed past the ship this afternoon. Atkinson declares it was the end of the Cape Barne Glacier. I hope they will know in the ship, as it would be interesting to witness the birth of a glacier in this region. It is clearing to-night, but still blowing hard. The ponies don't like the wind, but they are all standing the cold wonderfully and all their sores are healed up.
"Why, it is very true as you say, doctor," cries Mrs. Atkinson; "there seems to be a false concord. I protest I never thought of it before." "And yet this is the Virgil," answered the doctor, "that you are so fond of, who hath made you all of the neuter gender; or, as we say in English, he hath made mere animals of you; for, if we translate it thus, "Woman is a various and changeable animal,
He is a worthy man and as brave a man as yours; yes, madam, and he is now as much a captain." She spoke those words with so loud a voice, that Atkinson, who was accidentally going up-stairs, heard them; and, being surprized at the angry tone of his wife's voice, he entered the room, and, with a look of much astonishment, begged to know what was the matter. "The matter, my dear," cries Mrs.
I am convinced that from the earliest beginnings of the human family women have exercised a much stronger and more direct influence than is usually believed. All the movements towards regulation and progress, so ingeniously worked out by Mr. Atkinson, are easier to credit if we accept the initiative as having come from the group-mothers.
'A unanimous vote was perhaps too much to expect. Go on. "'Yes, says Jotham. 'Well, here's the way it stands. I'll read it to you. "He fixes his specs and reads like this: "'Number of votes cast, 32. "'Honorable Atkinson Holway has 4. "'WHAT? gasps Stingy Gabe, fallin' into his chair. "'Yes, sir, says Jotham. 'It's a shame, I know, but it looks as nobody voted for you, Mr.
The whisper was repeated once and again, but without seeming to produce any impression upon Doe's ears; at which the other growing impatient, gave, to Nathan's great satisfaction, a louder voice to his discourse: "Hark, you, Jack, Atkinson, Doe, Shanogenaw, Rattlesnake, or whatever you may be pleased to call yourself," he cried, striking the muser on the shoulder, "are you mad, drunk, or asleep?
Late to-night Atkinson's foot was examined: it is bad and there's no possibility of its getting right for some days. He must be left behind I've decided to leave Crean with him. Most luckily we now have an extra tent and cooker. How the ponies are to be led is very doubtful. Well, we must do the best that circumstances permit. Poor Atkinson is in very low spirits.
They had the best time of the lot, for they carried out their explorations in blissful ignorance of the tribulations of Scott, Campbell, Atkinson and myself, whose stories I have tried to summarise. For breezy reading and real bright narrative commend me to Griffith-Taylor. For lightheartedness and good fellowship our Australian geologists should be given first prize.
Atkinson, indeed, may be supposed not to see what related to James in the most favourable light, as the serjeant, with more honesty than prudence, had suggested to his wife that the colonel had not the kindest opinion of her, and had called her a sly and demure : it is true he omitted ill-looking b ; two words which are, perhaps, superior to the patience of any Job in petticoats that ever lived.
As you are not prepared, as the Americans say, to go the whole hog, we will part good friends, and if I have said anything to annoy you, I beg your pardon." "Good-bye, then, Captain Atkinson; for the kindness you have shown me I am grateful." He shook my hand, and walked out of the room. "And for having thus broken up our acquaintance, more grateful still," thought I, as he went down stairs.
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