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As already related, having lost my "five or six dollars' worth of horses" but a short time before I determined not to get another, but to make the journey on foot. My company commander, Captain McCall, had two good American horses, of considerably more value in that country, where native horses were cheap, than they were in the States. He used one himself and wanted the other for his servant.
Travelling from place to place, I saw the surviving heroes of the defeat: Meagher looking very yellow and prosaic; Slocum, small, indomitable, active; Newton, a little gray, a trifle proud, very mercurial, and curiously enough, a Virginian; Meade, lithe, spectacled, sanguine; and finally General McCall, as grave, kindly odd and absent, as I had found him four months before.
They were both backing the proposed bill. Mr. McCall was opposed to it; he was in California, and just before starting thither he had been told by the Mutual Life and Equitable that the Limitation Bill was favored by me and would be put through if such a thing were possible. Mr. McCall did not know me, and on leaving for California told Mr.
McCALL refers to "the Annual Register," for his authority; but, after careful searching, I do not find the statement. The intermediate comments, and the last sentence, are undoubtedly the Major's. The anecdote is also related in RAMSAY's History of the United States, Vol. III. p. 166.
At about nine o'clock next morning, in a suite at the Hotel Cosmopolis, Mrs. Cora Bates McCall, the eminent lecturer on Rational Eating, was seated at breakfast with her family. Before her sat Mr. McCall, a little hunted-looking man, the natural peculiarities of whose face were accentuated by a pair of glasses of semicircular shape, like half-moons with the horns turned up. Behind these, Mr.
My children, if you fail to shine or triumph in your special line; if, let us say, your hopes are bent on some day being President, and folks ignore your proper worth, and say you've not a chance on earth Cheer up! for in these stirring days Fame may be won in many ways. Consider, when your spirits fall, the case of Washington McCall. Yes, cast your eye on Washy, please!
He would also have to be identified with a hat factory." "What do you mean by saying that these two men were arrested charged with those murders?" "I mean that it was a foregone conclusion that if the suicide theory was exploded, these men would be charged with the crime?" "A foregone conclusion in whose mind, Professor?" "In the mind of the murderer, Mr. McCall.
These men must be above such things. What is there, aside from the insurance, that has held this group together for sixty-five years?" "Oh, so you heard about this Tontine insurance, did you?" asked McCall. "I told Professor Brierly about it, Mac," stated Jimmy. "Oh, I see. Well, you're right, Professor. This is not the thing that holds them together."
The class was formed on the 10th day of January, 1846, and at the beginning included Mr. and Mrs. Irwin McCall, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilson, Mrs. Maria Langdon, and Mrs. H. W. Patton. Cambria has since been largely settled by emigrants from Wales. In March, I visited Randolph and opened an appointment at the residence of Father Griffin.
Boys of fourteen in active combat service were fairly common. Father and sons often fought side by side. What is still more deplorable is the fact that often brothers, and even fathers and sons, fought on opposite sides." McCall puffed more slowly. He was apparently choosing his words carefully.
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