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America's feeling in the matter was summed up in the famous cartoon that appeared at Christmas in Life, where Jonathon was seen shaking hands with John Bull, the mare in the background, and saying: "I'll believe in you, John, but I'll watch you all the same." "That's God Almighty's Mustang, Chukkers up," said Old Mat. "The Three J's think they done it this time.
"And that ye can make sun-dials, and prent folks' names upon their waggons almost like copper-plate, with beautiful flourishes, and great long tails. A excellent fine thing for ye to be such a clever man, shepherd. Joseph Poorgrass used to prent to Farmer James Everdene's waggons before you came, and 'a could never mind which way to turn the J's and E's could ye, Joseph?"
Here let it be noted that the age of a MS. can easily be discovered; and that, too, in a variety of ways: by the formation of the characters, such as the roundness of the letters; or their largeness or smallness; the writing of the final l's; the use of the Gothic s's and the Gothic j's; the dotting, or no dotting of the i's; the absence or presence of diphthongs; the length of the lines; the punctuation; the accentuation; the form or size; the parchment or the paper; the ink; or some other mode of detection.
No stratagem that Rose could now invent could avert the discovery by the Confederates that McDonald and Johnson had disappeared, and the mystery of their departure would be almost certain to cause an inquiry and investigation that would put their plot in peril and probably reveal it. At last the "J's" were reached, and the name of I.N. Johnson was lustily shouted and repeated, with no response.
Dredge, "what's the good of a full purse except to share it? My poor husband Joshua was his name we was two J's, dear he always said, 'Jemima, thank God the chandlery is prospering. A full purse means light hearts, Jemima. We can shed blessings with our means, Jemima. Those was Joshua's words, Miss Mainwaring, and I hear him now telling them to me from his grave.
"I guess he got it all," the young officer assured them, at the same time unlocking a little closet and taking a leather-bound book from an upper shelf. "Let's see." He turned to the J's and ran his finger down the page until he came to the word "JASPER." "That means 'We have coaled," he said, writing the words out on the pad. "Oh, it's in code," said Slim apologetically; "I didn't know that."
I sees it all like in a wision." His eyes closed, and his hands and feet swam vaguely. "Me and Monkey o' the one side, and the Three J's o' tother, pitchin' the tale a treat at tops of our voices." He opened his eyes slowly, ogled Ma, tapped her knee, winked, and ended confidentially: "One thing, old dear. I'll lay they'll give Putnam's best same there as here. Now then!" Putnam's Once More
Thus the calculation of the J's the coefficients of impetus, as I will call them does not involve anything very revolutionary in the mathematical knowledge of physicists. We now return to the path of the attracted particle.
It had taken him three days to come all the way from Lake Erie, where his regiment was stationed, at Point Abino; and the same time would be consumed in his return. He could only remain with us eight days. How soon they fled away! How bitter was the thought of parting with him again! He had brought money to pay the J's. How surprised he was to find their large debt more than half liquidated.
The boy rolled over on his face and lay still under the heavens, his canary jacket like a blob of mustard on the green. The women in the crowd caught their breath. "Yes, he's done," muttered Mat, "Saved the Three J's a quarter of a million, though." "But she's through," commented Silver. "Don't you believe it," grumbled the old man. The sacrifice, indeed, seemed to have been in vain.
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