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On January 1, 1914, having received a promised financial support sufficient to warrant the announcement of the Expedition, I made it public. The first result of this was a flood of applications from all classes of the community to join the adventure. I received nearly five thousand applications, and out of these were picked fifty-six men.
The majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is, and I am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing. Perhaps you have wondered why seven times eight is always fifty-six, and why your teacher insists that it shall be that every time. You don't see why it can't be fifty-five just once, or possibly fifty-seven. But, no, sir; it is always fifty-six.
After Royal Earth comes Jin-Hwang-She, "Sovereign Man," who divided the land, and was forty-five thousand years about it. Following the string of their traditions, we come down to two thousand three hundred and fifty-six years before Christ, when was founded the first dynasty, that of Te-yaou, according to their chronology, Hea being Emperor, or Chief, as De Guignes rationally supposes.
There were used fifty-six kinds of light wines, like the French, and thirty of the strong sorts, like the Italian and Eastern. The stronger the wine, the better it was liked.
All ranks and classes were gathered in, representing at least fifty-six different nationalities; artisans, millionaires, and hoboes bunked side by side; the youthful plutocrat saw life from a new angle, the wild mountaineer learned to read, the alien immigrant to speak English.
Right here in Oklahoma, statistics show that in one section, of five thousand two hundred and forty-six wells driven, one thousand three hundred and fifty-six were dry. Now it takes a lot of money to drive a well, between twenty and thirty thousand dollars in fact, so you may count up the loss." "But there is oil here just look!"
He was a sour, small, bilious man, with a long face and very dark eyes; fifty-six years old, sound and active in body, and with an air somewhat between that of a shepherd and that of a man following the sea.
At the opening of the campaign, the parliament had five armies that of the Scots, of twenty-one thousand; that of Essex, ten thousand five hundred; that of Waller, five thousand one hundred; that of Manchester, fourteen thousand; and that of Fairfax, five thousand five hundred in all, about fifty-six thousand men, of whom the committee of the two kingdoms had the entire disposal.
Then they wondered how it happened that Mr. 'Possum's family had been gifted in that peculiar way, and by and by, when he woke up, and stretched, and moved back in the shade, and leaned against a stump to smoke, they asked him. Mr. 'Possum said it was a very old story, because it had happened about a hundred and fifty-six great-grandfathers back.
In fact I knew before, that this son proposed going to Sego with the annual tribute, which amounts to three hundred minkallis of gold or thereabouts; but I knew that the gold was not yet all collected, and that part of it would probably be bought with the merchandize I had given him. July 25th. Bought two asses for fifty-six bars of amber.
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