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The prowler had had time to skip from yard to yard, and nothing short of the services of the entire guard would be apt to result in his capture. "I wish you had shouted to me. I could have grabbed him in Hay's yard," said Cranston. "Well, I didn't like to for fear of startling Mrs.
Somebody about Hay's place was mighty anxious to cover his tracks." But a dozen "somebodies" besides the stablemen hung there at all hours of the day, infesting the broad veranda, the barroom and stores, striving to barter the skin of coyote, skunk or beaver, or, when they had nothing to sell, pleading for an unearned drink.
Hay's translation of Martial was lying in a window. I said, I thought it was pretty well done, and shewed him a particular epigram, I think, of ten, but am certain of eight, lines. Here a post-chaise, which I had ordered from Glasgow, came for us, and we drove on in high spirits.
My experience in Morocco does not permit me to authenticate Mr. Hay's horrible picture. "To his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Morocco, Sidi Muley Abd Errahman. "May it please your Majesty,
Neither of them would give or sell to either halfbreed a drop, and old Wilkins stood sponsor for the integrity of the affiants, both of whom he had known for years and both of whom intimated that the two specimens had no need to be begging, buying or stealing whiskey, when Bill Hay's private cellar held more than enough to fill the whole Sioux nation.
The battle smoke from Number Six, which had filled our port for some time, cleared away just then, enabling us to see "Hay's" last shot strike squarely upon the outer line of earthworks of the Punta Gorda battery. "Splendid shot, 'Hay'!" exclaimed our division officer, briefly. "Bully, that's what it is bully!" cried "Stump," patting the second captain upon the back.
General Scott hastily drew in the small forces which the government had maintained in Maryland and Virginia. Government employees and loyal Washingtonians were armed and began to drill. The White House became a barracks. Hay's humor brightens the tragic hour.
A remarkable feature of the winter's depredation had been that Hay's corral was never molested, although unguarded by the garrison and quite as much exposed as the most remote of the government shops, shanties or stables.
With him wielding unmeasured power with immeasurable energy, in the White House, the relation of age to youth of teacher to pupil was altogether out of place; and no other was possible. Even Hay's relation was a false one, while Adams's ceased of itself.
Welcome as Speck was in the same social intimacy, and valuable as his presence was to Hay, the personal gain was trifling compared with the political. Of Hay's official tasks, one knew no more than any newspaper reporter did, but of one's own diplomatic education the successive steps had become strides. The scholar was studying, not on Hay's account, but on his own.
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