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The tug-boat gossip informed me that Dick Kennet was dead blown up, near Memphis, and killed; that several others whom I had known had fallen in the war one or two of them shot down at the wheel; that another and very particular friend, whom I had steered many trips for, had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to collect some money in a remote part of the city, and had never been seen again was murdered and thrown into the river, it was thought; that Ben Thornburgh was dead long ago; also his wild 'cub' whom I used to quarrel with, all through every daylight watch.
Accordingly, on the 21st of October, we have Lord Lansdown's letter, expressing his great pleasure at the communication; on the 26th, we have Addison's letter encouraging him to the task; and in November of the same year occurs the amusing scene so graphically described by Bishop Kennet, when Dean Swift presided in the conversation, and, amongst other indications of his conscious authority, "instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr.
The Kennet swift, for silver eels renowned. Now, before the Great Western Railway had opened up the county the only main line of road which passed through it was the great Bath road, which entered near the toe at Windsor and ran along the sole for the greater part of the way by the side of the Kennet to the extreme heel at Hungerford.
The town itself is a famous old place, dating from the dim days of King Ethelred, when the Danes anchored their warships in the Kennet, and started from Reading to ravage all the land of Wessex; and here Ethelred and his brother Alfred fought and defeated them, Ethelred doing the praying and Alfred the fighting.
Digby's Papers, published by Secretary Coventry. * Camden, in Kennet, p. 692. * King James's Works, p. 503, 504. * The parliament this session passed an act obliging every one to take the oath of allegiance; a very moderate test, since it decided no controverted points between the two religions, and only engaged the persons who took it to abjure the pope's power of dethroning kings.
Journ. 7th June, 1604. Kennet, p. 673. The same spirit of independence, and perhaps not better judgment, appeared in the house of commons when the question of supply was brought before them by some members attached to the court.
They were now putting the Kennet with its narrow bridge between them and the long-feathered cavaliers, in the hope of gaining time and fit ground for forming and presenting a bristled front. In the midst of this confused mass of friends Richard found himself, the maddened Beelzebub every moment lashing out behind him when not rearing or biting.
I don't suppose them old Truslows were in the 'abit of doing that in their lifetime. And then there's summat white on its head that flaps like a couple o' large ears. What would that be?" "That's hid from us," answered Mrs Shivers solemnly, "by the merciful workings of Providence." "It's never seen after it crosses the Kennet?" resumed Mr Sweet.
The threat was extravagant; but Youth's glowing cheek and eye, and imperious lip, and simple generosity, made it almost beautiful. Kennet whined, "Oh, if you talk like that, there is an end to fair argument." "End it then, and promise me; upon your honour!" "Why not? What bosh! There, I promise. Hardie replied gaily, "Any way you like, now you are a good fellow again." "Come, that is evasive.
At Hungerford, the first town in Berkshire, over nine miles direct from Marlborough, we return to the Kennet.
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