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"And where's Peggy?" says Jerry. "Inside with chattering teeth for fear of the men hid between the walls." "How, when, what!" exclaimed the bewildered man. "Stop talking, man, and come to your scared wife." "I'm not scared now that I know who's there," piped a weak voice. "Come in right away out of the cold." "And is it by the door or by the window ye'll have me enter, Missis Myer?" asked Jerry.
Nothing daunted, these gallant men pushed on to drive the enemy from his chosen position, both divisions losing heavily. In this assault Colonel Hamilton, Lieutenants Smith and Shipp were killed, and Colonel Carroll, Lieutenants Thayer and Myer, all in the cavalry, were wounded.
And I am not a person, Miss Claiborne, to sneak out by side gates particularly when I came over the fence! It's a long way around anyhow and I have a horse over there somewhere by the inn." "My brother " "Is at Fort Myer, of course. At about this hour they are having dress parade, and he is thoroughly occupied." "But there is Monsieur Chauvenet. He has nothing to do but amuse himself."
"Everything looks mighty friendly here just now," Sandy answered, "but look up on top of the ridge, and see if you can tell what George is trying to say to us. That's Boy Scout wig-wag, all right!" "Yes," replied Will, springing to his feet excitedly. "That's the Myer code, sure as you live, and he's got a big white pine bough he's using as a flag. Can you see what he is saying?"
Perhaps we shall see you one of these days in America," said Claiborne, with some malice, it must be confessed, for his sister's benefit. "That is possible; I am very fond of Washington," responded Armitage carelessly. "Of course you will look us up," persisted Dick. "I shall be at Fort Myer for a while and it will always be a pleasure "
"No doubt of it," assented Cooper, urbanely, "but I've a partner, you know. I'm not free in making loans. And even if you had the best security in your hands, Merwin, we couldn't accommodate you in less than a week. We're just making a shipment of $15,000 to Myer Brothers in Rockdell, to buy cotton with. It goes down on the narrow-gauge to-night. That leaves our cash quite short at present.
"I'm Jerry, sir," the visitor began, "Jerry Myer. You may not know me, sir, but I know you, and your children they call me Paddy 'Paddy on the Turnpike." "Oh, it's Paddy, is it?" said Morton, remembering. "Yes, sir; no, sir that is, it's Jerry, sir." "Well, Jerry, be quick; what can I do for you this afternoon?"
In 1865 he was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was admitted in July, 1866. He was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. 480, 536. MYER STROUSE was born in Germany, December 16, 1825. He came with his father to America in 1832, and settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Having received an academical education, he studied law.
The following officers received distinguished mention in General Schwan's reports, for service rendered under fire during the campaign in western Puerto Rico: Captain P.M.B. Travis, Eleventh Infantry. Captain R.W. Hoyt, Eleventh Infantry. Captain A.L. Myer, Eleventh Infantry. Captain Penrose, Eleventh Infantry. Captain Macomb, Fifth Cavalry. Acting Assistant Surgeon Savage.
The Manucodia are the curly Birds of Paradise, and our knowledge of one of the latest and most novel of them is owing not to the indefatigable naturalists who have braved the dangers and discomfort of their wild island home, neither to the English Wallace, the Dutch Von Rosenburg, the Italian Beccari, nor to D'Albertis, nor Bruiju, nor De Myer, whose names will be forever associated with the splendid family, but to a British officer of scientific tastes.
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