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Updated: May 17, 2025
During the last summer of his life, when in his eighty-seventh year, he had the delight of a child in driving over to my home in the early morning, long before I was up, and in leaving a basket of sweet corn or some other vegetable which he knew would prove his garden to be ahead of mine.
This absence in fact included two tours, with no interval between them, and concluded the series of extensive journeys reaching through seventeen years. This man from his seventieth to his eighty-seventh year when most men are withdrawing from all activities, had travelled in forty-two countries and over two hundred thousand miles, a distance equivalent to nearly eight journeys round the globe!
See, there standeth before him one as he were thyself, O Ja'afar; yonder eunuch who standeth at his head is as he were Masrur and those courtiers as they were my own. By Allah, O Ja'afar, my reason is confounded and I am filled with amazement this matter!" And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Two Hundred and Eighty-seventh Night,
She was always in his thoughts, and he never wavered in his love for her and devotion to her comfort; whilst she looked upon him as only a mother so good and so tender could look upon a son who had become her "only hope." She was in her eighty-seventh year, and at such an age all illnesses are dangerous. Borrow hastened to Oulton, and arrived just in time to be with her at the last.
One of the inmates of the home, an old lady in her eighty-seventh year was at the point of death. From appearances one would have supposed that her end was near. She had no hope of recovery. Her burial clothes were made ready. She had been prayed for a number of times, but was still suffering great agony. She did not know what was causing the suffering, but thought it might be appendicitis.
In a few moments the band of a regiment was heard, and very shortly after the regular tramp of troops followed, as the Eighty-seventh marched into the Plaza, and formed a line. The music ceased; the drums rolled along the line; and the next moment all was still.
This is the eighty-seventh anniversary of our National Independence, and here we are engaged in civil war. What would our old Revolutionary heroes say, could they but look in upon us?
So he was shown the chests of money and rarities and jewels, when he took them and parted them all amongst the troops, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Eighty-seventh Night,
Many believe that they who die sleep forever; but this they could not, if they had listened to words I have heard from Paralus. Son of Chaerilaues, farewell. May blessings be around thee, wheresoever thou goest, and no evil shadow cross thy threshold. Written in Elis, this thirteenth day of the increasing moon, in the month Hecatombaeon, and the close of the eighty-seventh Olympiad."
She burst into tears, and we praised the Lord together," and he added: "You see, we never give to the Lord but He gives in return." A poor but pious widow in Boston, in her eighty-seventh year, said to a friend, "When I was left a widow with three little children, I was brought into such extremity that they were crying for bread, and I had nothing for them to eat.
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