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'Those words, said old Donald Menzies, the mystic of Drumtochty, 'those words fell upon me like a gleam from the Mercy-seat! What words? Let us return to Hedley Vicars! He was only twenty-eight when he fell, leading his regiment the Ninety-seventh in action before Sebastopol. The enemy attacked suddenly under cover of the darkness.
"And when Bell was knocked down, at the end of the fight " "After the ninety-seventh round!" nodded Barnabas. "My father, sir, was the first to jump into the ring and clasp the Champion's fist and proud he is to tell of it!" "Proud!" said Barnabas, staring. "Proud, sir yes, why not? so should I have been so would any man have been.
Tuite, that dear good old gentleman, died a few days ago at Sonna, in his ninety-seventh year; his good son, in his note to my mother announcing the event, says, "It is a comfort to think that to the very last he had all the comfort, spiritual and earthly, that he could need or desire."
This great triumph of our holy Catholic faith, according to his computation, took place in the beginning of January in the year of our Lord 1492, being 3655 years from the population of Spain by the patriarch Tubal, 3797 from the general deluge, 5453 from the creation of the world, according to Hebrew calculation, and in the month Rabic, in the eight hundred and ninety-seventh year of the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet, whom may God confound! saith the pious Agapida.
When the King heard what had happened, he bade his Queen put the bath-woman to the question by fire and grievous blows, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Five Hundred and Ninety-seventh Night,
There was a little band of devoted Christian workers, among whom were Orderly Sergeant Thomas J. Sheppard, Ninety-Seventh O. Y. L, now a leading Baptist minister in Eastern Ohio; Boston Corbett, who afterward slew John Wilkes Booth, and Frank Smith, now at the head of the Railroad Bethel work at Toledo. They were indefatigable in trying to evangelize the prison.
Not one of the Infidels could near me; so I brought his head to you," And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Ninety-seventh Night,
First Division, Brigadier-General A. J. SMITH. Steamers Des Arc, division headquarters and escort; Metropolitan, Sixth Indiana; J. H. Dickey, Twenty-third Wisconsin; J. C. Snow, Sixteenth Indiana; Hiawatha, Ninety-sixth Ohio; J. S. Pringle, Sixty-seventh Indiana; J. W. Cheeseman, Ninth Kentucky; R. Campbell, Ninety-seventh Indiana; Duke of Argyle, Seventy-seventh Illinois; City of Alton, One Hundred and Eighth and Forty-eighth Ohio; City of Louisiana, Mercantile Battery; Ohio Belle, Seventeenth Ohio Battery; Citizen, Eighty-third Ohio; Champion, commissary-boat; General Anderson, Ordnance.
They fared along through Indiana and over the wide savannas of Illinois, and on the ninety-seventh day of their journey they drove through rolling, grassy, flowering prairies and up a long, hard hill to the small log cabin settlement of New Salem, Illinois, on the shore of the Sangamon. They halted about noon in the middle of this little prairie village, opposite a small clapboarded house.
'The men of the Ninety-seventh behaved with the utmost gallantry and coolness, said Lord Raglan, in the historic dispatch that reached England on Good Friday, 1855.
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