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It was our belief that every guard who killed a Yankee was rewarded with a thirty-day furlough. Mr.
"The day you left, Lessard had me up on the carpet again. When he got through cross-questioning me, he considered a while, and finally said that under the circumstances he felt that losing my stripes would be punishment enough for the rank insubordination I'd been guilty of, and he would therefore revoke the thirty-day sentence.
In it were the twelve thirty-day months, with their names of vintage, fog, and frost; of snow, rain, and wind; of bud, flower, and meadow; of seed, heat, and harvest: the whole terminated most unpoetically by the five or six supplementary days named sansculot-tides, sansculottes meaning without knee-breeches, a garment confined to the upper classes; that is, with long trousers like the common people, and these days were so named because they were to be a holiday for the long-trousered populace which was to use the new reckoning.
Think of what it would mean! the disgrace of it! the humiliation, not only for himself but for Serena, his wife, and Gertrude, his daughter! He did not blame Smith and Denton; they had been very kind, very lenient indeed. The thirty-day credit originally given him had been extended to sixty and ninety.
It was our belief that every guard who killed a Yankee was rewarded with a thirty-day furlough. Mr.
Those fellows needed an artistic cussing-out and a thirty-day hang-up at the very lightest. You can't hold 'em down with Sunday-school talk." Lidgerwood was frowning at his blotting-pad and pencilling idle little squares on it a habit which was insensibly growing upon him. "Where would I get the two extra train-crews to fill in the thirty-day lay-off, Jack? Had you thought of that?"
"My contract is Galactic Standard. I still have two months to go. But how come the ten-month year? Most other planets have twelve, regardless of the number of days." "Old Alexander liked thirty-day months." "I've wondered about that." "You'll find a lot more peculiar things about Flora when you get to know her better. This year has just been a breaking-in period." Kennon chuckled.
He knew nothing of it and poked around for several minutes before finding it. After glancing keenly at its date he threw it down and brusquely said: "Time's out on this, my friend." Harold looked at him sharply. "Oh, no, that can't be; it's a thirty-day trip." The agent grew irritable. "I know it is; it was good to the fifteenth; this is the seventeenth; the ticket is worthless."
I can tell you that Davis, Erskine, and Owen those men out there are cleaned out. They have put in all their ready money. They were depending on Stone & Adams for the first instalment from the bonds, so as to take up some thirty-day notes and pay bills due on material." Colonel Dodd meditated, pulling on his wisp of whisker.
After explaining the advisability of keeping secret for the present the fact that a thirty-day franchise had been granted, His Honour, with the consent of the maker of the original motion and the second thereof, submitted the amended motion to a vote, which was carried unanimously.
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