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See A.F. Blaisdell, Stories from English History; Louise Creighton, Stories from English History; Maude B. Dutton, Little Stories of Germany; H.A. Guerber, The Story of the English; Haaren and Poland, Famous Men of the Middle Ages; Harding, The Story of the Middle Ages; S.B. Harding and W.F. Harding, The Story of England; M.F. Lansing, Barbarian and Noble; A.M. Mowry, First Steps in the History of England; L.N. Pitman, Stories of Old France; Eva March Tappan, European Hero Stories; H.P. Warren, Stories from English History; Bates and Coman, English History as told by the Poets.
'Have been quite sure, corrected my uncle, 'that they have seen the dog or its wraith, but no one has yet seen the shepherd, I believe. Your aunt last autumn saw the dog on the top of the wall that surrounds the mausoleum, jumping up and down and growling dreadfully, and last night our stableman "Geordie" a disabled pitman, was chivvied by him across the park from close beside the mausoleum.
Pitman was the son of a Hawaiian Chiefess and although he had not been there since childhood he was the person of the highest rank. Mrs. Pitman was prominent among the suffrage leaders in Massachusetts and was deeply interested in the situation in Hawaii.
We felt also for food and water, and found none, and came to the conclusion that none had been put in; but here we were mistaken. I have a letter from Second Officer Lightoller in which he assures me that he and Fourth Officer Pitman examined every lifeboat from the Titanic as they lay on the Carpathia's deck afterwards and found biscuits and water in each.
Now," said Michael, with a really appalling seriousness of manner, "tell me who we are." The unfortunate little man was cross-examined till he knew these facts by heart. "There!" cried the lawyer. "Our plans are laid. Thoroughly consistent that's the great thing." "But I don't understand," objected Pitman. "O, you'll understand right enough when it comes to the point," said Michael, rising.
"Not he," said Bill, "nor yet nothink else." "And what what did Pitman do?" asked Morris. "O, he went off with the barrel in a four-wheeler, very trembling like," replied Bill. "I don't believe he's a gentleman as has good health." "Well, so the barrel's gone," said Morris, half to himself. "You may depend on that, sir," returned the porter. "But you had better see the superintendent."
The door of No. 7 bore a brass plate inscribed with the legend 'W. D. Pitman, Artist'. It was not a particularly clean brass plate, nor was No. 7 itself a particularly inviting place of residence. And yet it had a character of its own, such as may well quicken the pulse of the reader's curiosity.
Not even the sight of the barrel could entirely cast him down. He flung himself with rising zest into his work a bust of Mr. "Well, what's wrong?" said Michael, advancing to the grate, where, knowing his friend's delight in a bright fire, Mr. Pitman had not spared the fuel. "I suppose you have come to grief somehow." "There is no expression strong enough," said the artist. "Mr.
In all this maddening interview there had been no more spectral feature than this of Michael's merriment; and Pitman and Morris, drawn together by the common fear, exchanged glances of anxiety. 'Morris, gasped the lawyer, when he was at last able to articulate, 'hold on, I see it all now. I can make it clear in one word. Here's the key: I NEVER GUESSED IT WAS UNCLE JOSEPH TILL THIS MOMENT.
She got close enough, so she seemed to me, to read our Morse electric signals." "Suppose you had a powerful search light on the Titanic, could you not have thrown a beam on the vessel and have compelled her attention?" "We might." H. J. Pitman, the third officer of the ship, was the first witness on April 23d.
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