Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
This we recommend to your prudence, highly disapproving, at the same time, of any force or coercion when such can be avoided, and wishing, therefore, that the bearer's negotiation may be successful. At all rates, however, the bearer hath our pledged word for his safety and freedom, which, therefore, you are to see strictly observed, as you value our honour and your own.
It announced that a garden-party would take place at Wedderburn, the home of the Honourable Humphrey Crewe, at a not very distant date, and the honour of the bearer's presence was requested. Refreshments would be served, and the Ripton Band would dispense music. Below, in small print, were minute directions where to enter, where to hitch your team, and where to go out.
A. Risen Shine he bore a name which fitted its bearer and its bearer's calling at once it was a slogan and a testimony, a trade-mark and a watch-cry. Proudly now he walked the earth, broadcasting the favor of his smile on every side.
Clearly he must escape to-night, at all hazards. "What's that? My rope?" he wondered. But it was only the arrival of his dinner, brought as before upon a tray and set just within the door, as though they feared for the bearer's life should he venture within reach of this desperate adventurer from Uruguay.
The despatch bearer's eye, sweeping peaks and slopes and valleys, saw nothing living save himself and his good horse.
Active preparations were now made for the intended journey westward; cloth, beads, and brass-wire were formed into packages, with the bearer's name printed on each. The Makololo who had been employed by the expedition received their wages. Some of those who had remained at Tete had married, and resolved to continue where they were.
"Why, I once sewed eighteen stitches in a native bearer's head, and he didn't make half the fuss you're making. Now, keep quite still." Mr. Bennett did for perhaps the space of two seconds. Then he leaped from his seat once more. It was a tribute to the forceful personality of the fair surgeon, if one were needed, that the squeal he uttered was a subdued one.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking