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Yet in the tragedy there is a touch of comedy. Those beasts that were first killed by the murrian and afterwards plagued by the boil, at last lose their firstborn by the tenth plague. Besides, there is a touch of the ludicrous in the statement that every house had one dead. All the firstborn of such a large population could not have been present at that time.
I had fallen too far to have any breath left for talkin'; but Hammy an' Locals unbosomed their hearts something terrible. "A murrian on the filthy swine!" sez Hammy, after he began to quiet down a little. "I would I had his treacherous throat within my grasp, that I might squeeze his inky soul back to the lower depths from whence he sprung."
Item, a notable pair of brigandines, with a murrian covered with crimson velvet and gilt nails. Item, a male and female lions. Gifts given to the Ambassador at his Departure, over and above such as were delivered unto him at his first Arrival. First, a chain of gold of one hundred pound. Item, a large basin and ewer, silver and gilt. Item, a pair of pottle pots gilt. Item, a pair of flagons gilt.
"And because the Koran denounces usury by Moslems, and you are a pious man and also perhaps because of the risk attached to using your name in the matter your wife Jael's name was used. Nevertheless, your seal was used at the time as a check on her. Now, at a word from me the British would impound that money, interest and all." "A murrian on them! But you spoke of being friends?"
It is said of old Colonel Murrian, the then Mayor of Cheyenne, that he advanced the City's script eighteen cents on the dollar, by inflicting a fine of ten dollars on those who "made a gun play" i. e. shot at any one, and that it was his custom to add a quarter to the fines he inflicted, making them ten dollars and twenty-five cents or twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, with the explanation that his was dry work and the extra quarter was to cover the stimulant his arduous duties required.
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