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In March, 1630, Harvey arrived, and Pott's former dignity as governor did not save him from a mortifying experience. The council was not only an upper house of legislation, but the supreme court of the colony, and in July, 1630, Pott was arraigned before this tribunal for stealing cattle, and declared guilty.
It seems that he has an old Pott's fracture of the left ankle, a linear, longitudinal scar on each knee origin not stated, but easily guessed at and that he has tattooed on his chest in vermilion a very finely and distinctly executed representation of the symbolical Eye of Osiris or Horus or Ra, as the different authorities have it.
Pott's conduct had been arraigned were the illegal importation of heliographic apparatus for the Transvaal artillery and a wrongful grant of passports in his dual capacity as consular agent for Holland and the Republics. In the end diplomatic relations were resumed between the two Governments.
Indeed, as I looked in the Gipsy's face, I began to realise that a man might be talked out of a belief in his own name, and felt a rudimentary sensation to the effect that the language of the Black Wanderers was all a dream, and Pott's Zigeuner the mere tinkling of a pot of brass, Paspati a jingling Turkish symbol, and all Rommany a praeterea nihil without the vox.
Winkle had conveyed the intelligence of the fancy-ball there, before him. 'Mrs. Pott's going, were the first words with which he saluted his leader. 'Is she? said Mr. Pickwick. 'As Apollo, replied Winkle. 'Only Pott objects to the tunic. 'He is right. He is quite right, said Mr. Pickwick emphatically. 'Yes; so she's going to wear a white satin gown with gold spangles.
Pott; it having been previously arranged that they should all reassemble at the Town Arms in the morning, and accompany the Honourable Samuel Slumkey's procession to the place of nomination. Mr. Pott's domestic circle was limited to himself and his wife.
"The description of a missing individual has been given to us," said the coroner; "a man, fifty-nine years of age, five feet eight inches in height, healthy, well preserved, rather broad in build, and having an old Pott's fracture of the left ankle. Do the remains that you have examined agree with that description?" "Yes, in so far as agreement is possible. There is no disagreement."
Whatever thoughts the threat of a separation might have awakened in Mr. Pott's mind, he forbore to give utterance to them, and contented himself by saying, with great humility: 'My dear, will you hear me? A fresh train of sobs was the only reply, as Mrs.
Pott's door, which door itself opened, and displayed the great Pott accoutred as a Russian officer of justice, with a tremendous knout in his hand tastefully typical of the stern and mighty power of the Eatanswill GAZETTE, and the fearful lashings it bestowed on public offenders. 'Bravo! shouted Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass from the passage, when they beheld the walking allegory. 'Bravo! Mr.
"Listen to me now," she said impressively, "and I'll tell you something to make you angry, if you like!" She leaned against the foot of the bed, with her hands in the pockets of her apron, looking down at him. "I was in charge of th' infirmary at Mellifont one time, and late one evening a young farm-boy was brought in to me with a dislocated foot and a 'Pott's Fracture' "
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