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The sugar industry of the island may be said to have been restored to its normal proportions in 1903. Our imports for the five-year period 1904-1908 averaged 1,200,000 tons a year. For the five-year period 1910-1914 they averaged 1,720,000 tons. In 1914, they were 2,200,000 tons as compared with 1,260,000 tons in 1904.
The Martha had carried away fifty of the blacks whose time was up, and they had been among the worst on the plantation five-year men recruited by Billy Be-blowed, men who had gone through the old days of terrorism when the original owners of Berande had been driven away. The new recruits, being broken in under the new regime, gave better promise.
This law should be duplicated in every state. Two things remain to be done in the state of New York. All the shore birds, quail and gray squirrels of the state should be given five-year close seasons, by the action of the State Conservation Commission.
They wrote no more; and, what was still harder for my mother, I think, they made no journeys half across the State on the prison visiting days. It will be seen that I have cut the time down from the five-year limit imposed by my sentence; and so it was cut down in reality.
His visits to Moonfleet were generally short enough, for owing to the Mohunes owning all the land, the only duchy estate there was the Why Not? and the only duty of the bailiff to renew that five-year lease, under which Blocks had held the inn, father and son, for generations.
"It's a five-year contract to coach Wayne's baseball teams." A thundering cheer attested to the importance of that document to the boys. "Oh, Worry, but I'm glad!" cried Ken. "Then your son Harry will be in college next year will be on the team?" "Say, he'll have to go some to make next year's varsity, with only two or three vacancies to fill. Now, fellows, I want to know things.
They literally fell upon him when he was engaged in counting out his money. "Whaur did you find him?" asked Mr. Traill in bewilderment. Six-year-old Ailie slipped a shy finger into her mouth, and looked to the very much more mature five-year old crippled laddie to answer, "He was i' the kirkyaird." "Sittin' upon a stane by 'is ainsel'," added Ailie. "An' no' hidin', ava.
She would have them all at the Abbey, the shabby old half-pay father, shabby no longer in those glorious days; the vulgar little stepmother, improved into elegance; the five-year old brother, that loveliest and dearest of created beings.
For example, we now have it within our power to eradicate from the face of the earth that age-old scourge of mankind: malaria. We are embarking with other nations in an all-out five-year campaign to blot out this curse forever. We invite the Soviets to join with us in this great work of humanity.
He proposed to work its circulation up into hundreds of thousands, to buy it at Billy's figure, and to pay him a handsome salary, six thousand was hinted, I believe, as editor, under a five-year contract! Billy asked if the policy of the paper was to be dictated, and he said, no, no, everything left to him! Billy came home dazed, my dear, and I confess I was dazed too. Mr.
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