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There's old Hennesy, honest Jack, as they used to call him, that your uncle trusted for the last forty years, has raised eighteen thousand pounds on the title-deeds, and gone off to America. The old scoundrel! But it's no use talking; the blow is a sore one to Godfrey, and the gout more troublesome than ever.

In my watch was a man named Timothy Hennesy, who on 'small-arm' days would bind with spun-yarn his big toe, thereby giving the inspecting officer the impression he had hurt it, and was in consequence excused from wearing his boots. Following this inspection, one watch goes below to make or mend their clothes, and the other remains on deck until noon.

I went to see Father Hennesy, of Houston, I explained to him my strange leadings, he said a wise and good thing, told me to "read the scriptures and pray and God would lead me right." I was at church in Medicine Lodge one night, during a protracted meeting held by Bro. Parker and Hodges. Two sisters came to me and complained that I made so much noise, said they could not enjoy the service.

In fact the whole lot are dry till you get as far as the Stevenson Bore. You're right after that. How many've you got?" "A thousand." "Holy sailor! You'll never get through. Bob Hennesy was the last man down with cattle. He got as far as the Crown and had to leave them on a well there. They were as poor as wood. No stock passed this way for three months."

Hennesy expects me to report upon it this evening, and I am so hurried. "Here a very chorus of laughing broke forth, in which, after several vain efforts to resist, I was forced to join, and kept it up with the others.