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Updated: July 24, 2025
Jacob started home. One, two, three posts he hit. Then he hit the trap. It grabbed him faithfully by three fingers. Angels of Love! did ever a boy of fourteen yell like it before! He sprang in the air threw himself on the ground like a roped brumby jumped up again and ran all he knew, frantically wringing the hand the trap clung to. What Jacob reckoned had hold of him Heaven only can tell.
Fearing that the crowd might lower "old glory," Lieutenant Brumby asked an American infantry officer to move up a detachment to guard it. Fortunately, he met a company coming up with a band. The infantrymen presented arms and the band played "The Star- Spangled Banner," accompanied by the cheers of the soldiers, in which many of the residents of the city joined.
"The city of Manila was now in our possession, excepting the walled town, but shortly after the entry of our troops into Malate a white flag was displayed on the walls, whereupon Lieutenant-Colonel C. A Whittier, United States Volunteers, of my staff, and Lieutenant Brumby, United States Navy, representing Admiral Dewey, were sent ashore to communicate with the Captain-General.
If at any time she was wanted when in the grass paddock, it required the lot of us from Dad down to yard her, as well as the dogs, and every other dog in the neighbourhood. Not that she had any brumby element in her she would have been easier to yard if she had but she would drive steadily enough, alone or with other horses, until she saw the yard, when she would turn and deliberately walk away.
Brumby; and she was very fond of him and the thing was all but done, in spite of her sons, who were in a rage as you may fancy. But Charley, sir, has such a propensity for humbug that he will tell lies when there is no earthly good in lying. He represented his chapel at twelve hundred a year, his private means as so-and-so; and when he came to book up with Briggs the lawyer, Mrs.
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