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You can use your code book and save a couple of dollars." "Code book!" Mr. Hankins protested indignantly. "Why, who ever heard of a code book for cabling on baby business?" "Use your shipping code. Here; hand me that code book. There's bound to be something to fit the occasion there always is. Hum-m-m! Ahem! Harumph-h-h! Let us see what we shall see under the head of cargoes; Loading! Discharging!
"Well, he says he thinks it will be twins, in a couple of days at the most." "Good news! Here you are. Afilaba meaning: Heavy arrivals expected shortly. Now then, Hankins, he'll want some news of his wife, won't he? How about her?" "She went to the hospital this morning." Cappy closed his eyes and pondered; then once more took up the code book. Followed a silence. Then: "Bully!
He'll be in consultation here with Matt and me for an hour yet." "I just wanted to know, Mr. Skinner, whether all those cablegrams to Captain Landry, of the Altair, are to be charged to general expense, Captain Landry's personal account, or to the Altair." "It seems to me you should charge them to Captain Landry, Hankins," Mr. Skinner spoke up.
"Oh, very well, sir only the expense is getting to be quite an item." "I'm just about to send him another cablegram," Mr. Hankins declared fretfully. "The Altair is due to sail from Callao and the baby is still unborn; it will be two months old, at least, before the skipper gets any further news." "Let's see your cablegram," Cappy ordered, and Mr. Hankins passed it over. Cappy read it.
For he had clearly studied figgers to the neglect of the other branches of a liberal education. His demonstration was printed on a large chart. He began with the seventy weeks of Daniel, he added in the "time and times and a half," and what Daniel declared that he "understood not when he heard," was plain sailing to the enlightened and mathematical mind of Elder Hankins.
"Holy suffering sailor!" he cried. "Why this concern isn't in the hands of a receiver is a mystery to me." He looked up at Mr. Hankins with blood in his eye. "Here you are, Hankins, trying to saddle a bill of expense on a poor, heartbroken, anxious, embryo parent-to-be.
The people liked the prospect of the end of the world because it would be a spectacle, something to relieve the fearful monotony of their lives. It would have given them something to think and talk about. Into this still pool Elder Hankins threw the vials, the trumpets, the thunders, the beast with ten horns, the he-goat, and all the other apocalyptic symbols understood in an absurdly literal way.
Naturally Landry will say to himself: 'Well, for heaven's sake, when will that child arrive? We should enlighten him on that point." "We cannot." "Very well, then. Say so. Here you are. Affumicata meaning: We cannot guarantee time of arrival. Hankins, have you talked with Mrs. Landry's physician in order to get the latest ringside reports?" "Yes, sir." "What does he say?"
All the Millerite preachers of that day were not quite so illiterate as Elder Hankins, and it is but fair to say that the Adventists of to-day are a very respectable denomination, doing a work which deserves more recognition from others than it receives. And for the delusion which expects the world to come to an end immediately, the Adventist leaders are not responsible in the first place.
"Figgers won't lie," said Elder Hankins, the Millerite preacher. "I say figgers won't lie. When a Methodis' talks about fallin' from grace he has to argy the pint. And argyments can't be depended 'pon. And when a Prisbyterian talks about parseverance he haint got the absolute sartainty on his side.
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