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With the other boys I played antics, and rioted in fantastic jests; but in his society, or whenever I thought of him, I fell into a kind of Sabbath state of bliss; and I am sure I could have died for him. ANECDOTE OF MATHEWS. One morning, after stopping all night at this pleasant house, I was getting up to breakfast, when I heard the noise of a little boy having his face washed.
I must relate one other anecdote illustrating this oppression. A poor man sold me a peck of barley. The myrmidons of power, hearing of the sale, immediately went to him, and he refusing to give them the money, they got hold of his throat and nearly strangled him. To make them desist, I paid them also the value of the barley.
"Your anecdote of the rabbits," said the Doctor, "reminds me of a story told of a Dutchman, who discovered an owl on a limb above him, and noticed that its face, and great round eyes, followed him always as he walked around the tree, without its body moving at all. Seeing this he concluded in his wisdom, that he would travel round the tree, till the owl twisted its head off in watching him.
Promises of the Sultan Yellow-painted Women Presents Anecdotes Prepare to visit En-Noor Our Reception Dialogue Seeming Liberality of the Sultan Greediness of his People No Provisions to be got Fat Women Nephew of the Sultan Tanelkum Beggars Weather A Divorced Lady Aheer Money Our Camels again stolen Account of the Tanelkums Huckster Women Aheer Landscape Various Causes of Annoyance No News of the Camels Anecdote of my Servants Storms Revolution in the Desert Name of the Country Dr.
He was a merry light-hearted fellow, fonder of a joke than hard work, yet ever keeping a sharp eye to the "main chance," as the following anecdote will prove. One day during our stay in Melbourne he came to me, and said, laughing: "Well! I've got rid of one of the bad HABITS I had on board the ." "Which?" was my reply.
Lord L. quotes from Vincent le Blanc an anecdote of a man in his own caravan, the companion of an Arab merchant, who disappeared in a mysterious manner. Four Moors, with a retaining fee of 100 ducats, were sent in quest of him, but came back re infecta.
This anecdote was related to me by Captain Cumings, of the Kent, who was trading on the opposite coast for palm-oil, at the time it occurred. Thursday, 22. Mr. Craig has just opened his general store, which, with Captain Smith's, forms the second mercantile establishment in this infant settlement. Friday, 23. Mr.
I could not help asking Sir Robert to allow me to tell him the sequel to this incident a little anecdote related to me by the late Mr. Henry Graves, the famous print-seller, of Pall Mall, who probably knew Landseer better than any other man.
At Sèvres, it is from himself that I borrow the anecdote, he did not see without painful surprise that his communication was received with the most complete indifference by a group of soldiers assembled before the barrack door; Bailly laughed much on afterwards learning that this was a party of Swiss soldiers, who did not understand a word he said.
When speaking of his residence with Pius VII. M. Denon related to me the following anecdote. "The Pope," said he, "was much attached to me. He always addressed me by the appellation 'my son, and he loved to converse with me, especially on the subject of the Egyptian expedition.
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