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While he was with the Vryheid commando Hassell was twice wounded, once in the attack on Caesar's Hill and again at Estcourt, where he received a bayonet thrust which disabled him for several weeks and deprived him of the brief honour of being General Botha's adjutant.
"It is an open thoroughfare, and I see two policemen at the corner. Hassell, my chauffeur, too, is a reliable fellow. We will be back within the hour." "We?" she repeated. He indicated a man who had silently made his appearance during the conversation and was standing waiting on the sidewalk. "Just a companion. I do not advise you to wait. If you insist au revoir!"
Hassell having secured him at home, showed him the money for his work, and so dealt with him that the picture, a landscape with six figures, one of his best productions, was completed in six hours. He then paid him, and relieved his apprehensions respecting the imaginary bailiffs Morland laughed heartily.
There is not one sketch in the collection thus made but what would now produce thrice its original cost. One evening Hassell and his friends were returning to town from Hempstead, when Morland accosted them in the character of a mounted patrole, wearing the parish great-coat, girded with a broad black belt, and a pair of pistols depending.
With all these indulgences the boy was not happy; he aspired but the more eagerly after full liberty and the unrestrained enjoyment of the profits of his pencil. Hassell and Smith give contradictory accounts of this important step in young Morland's life, which occurred when he was seventeen years old.
It would appear by Smith's relation, that our youth, instead of supporting his father, had all along been depending on his help; this, however, contradicts not only Hassell, but Fuseli also, who, in his edition of Pilkington's Dictionary, accuses the elder Morland of avariciously pocketing the whole profits of his son's productions.
She looked at me with some return of that half fearsome curiosity which had first come into her eyes when I made my request. "Wasn't the inquest horrid?" she said. "Father says they were five hours deciding and there's old Joe Hassell; even now he won't believe that that he came from the sea." "It isn't a pleasant subject," I said quietly. "Let us talk of something else."
After waiting some time, Hassell went to the window and effected surprise at seeing two strangers gazing intently at the artist's house. Morland looked at them earnestly declared they were bailiffs, who certainly wanted him and ordered the door to be bolted.
After the exciting days of the Natal campaign John A. Hassell, an American who had been with the Vryheid commando, organised the American Scouts and succeeded in gathering what probably was the strangest body of men in the war. Captain Hassell himself was born in New Jersey, and was well educated in American public schools and the schools of experience.
The effect whereof being signified vnto the strangers by an Interpreter, hee tooke possession of the sayde land in the right of the Crowne of England by digging of a Turffe and receiuing the same with an Hassell wand, deliuered vnto him, after the maner of the law and custome of England.
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