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Evans to these weapons, as well as to Mr. Frere's memoir after his return from Amiens in 1859, and he lost no time in visiting Hoxne, a village five miles eastward of Diss. It is not a little remarkable that he should have found, after a lapse of sixty years, that the extraction of clay was still going on in the same brick-pit.
At this two of the Boches proceeded to search the captives, neither of whom had anything of value or importance about them, and handed the booty to the officer. "Vat is diss, huh?" he said, looking at a small object in his hand. Tom's answer nearly knocked Roscoe off his feet. "It's a compass," said he.
Sneed, our cheerful 'grouch, either," answered Ruth. As they went in they saw Carl Switzer, the German comedian, climbing a high step-ladder with a pail of paste in one hand, and a roll of wall paper in the other. He was in a scene representing a room, which he was to decorate. "Is diss der right vay to do it?" Mr. Switzer asked, as he paused half way up the ladder, and looked at Mr. Pertell.
Not but he has his horrid eye upon us, and is whetting his infernal feathered dart every instant, as you see him truly pictured in that impressive moral picture, "The good man at the hour of death." I have in trust to put in the post four letters from Diss, and one from Lynn, to St. Helena, which I hope will accompany this safe, and one from Lynn, and the one before spoken of from me, to Canton.
Nen he finks, 'I play to Gaw an' my ancestors. So begin play lika diss: 'O Gaw, O my ancestors, givva me res'; givva me foo'; givva me wadder! Nen I kip on fawever fine who ki' Jan Han Sun. Nen magistrate stag' 'long few steps, an' dlop down on big lock. No can any fudder. "Pitty soon look roun'; shee litty light shine from winnidow. Dissa was littyoshantyhouse vay poh look "
It is impossible to fancy a gentleman who restricts himself to the occupation of fighting, buying from those at whose expense he pursues it his weekly supply of provisions, and marching home with his diss, or strings of chops and cutlets, festooned from his spear or garlanded around his gallant brow. Such is the drift of the times. Mankind is banded against brigandage.
As he saw the engine, with its load of friendly faces, he broke into a cheer, and ran toward the track side. "Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" he yelled, waving his china-bowled pipe about his head. "Diss iss der bestest thing I've seen since I had idt der Cherman measles, alretty yet."
The woman stood a step outside the door, a baby in her arms, another toddler holding fast to her skirt. A thick-bodied, short, square-shouldered man was this newcomer, with a round, pleasant face. "Hello, neighbor!" Bill greeted. The plowman lifted his old felt hat courteously. His face lit up. "Ach!" said he. "Neighbor. Dot iss a goot vord in diss country vere dere iss no neighbor.
The districts east of Diss and Tiary were not destroyed. The tribes of Tehoma, Bass, and Jelu suffered comparatively little in either of the invasions, except in the loss of their property and their independence. After the disasters of Tiary and Diss, each of the remaining tribes sent in its submission. The Patriarch fled to Mosul.
On the south was a Turkish army from the Pasha of Mosul, while the Ravandooz Koords are said to have been ready for an onset from the southeast. Diss, the district in which the Patriarch resided, and Tiary were soon laid waste by the combined force of the Buhtan and Hakary Koords.
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