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It was characteristic of Don Sabas a man at once merry, learned, whimsical and audacious that he should have disturbed the dust of this musty and sleeping statute to increase the humour of the world by so much as a smile from his indulgent colleagues. With delightful mock seriousness the Minister of War proposed the creation of a navy.
To the cities which had suffered by hostile inroads Anastasius promised a general exemption of seven years: the provinces of Justinian have been ravaged by the Persians and Arabs, the Huns and Sclavonians; but his vain and ridiculous dispensation of a single year has been confined to those places which were actually taken by the enemy." Sabas.
"It is true," he said, "that I am fleeing the country. But, receive the assurance that I care very little for that. Courts and camps everywhere are open to Sabas Placido. Vaya! what is this molehill of a republic this pig's head of a country to a man like me? I am a paisano of everywhere.
Advancing to the mast he lowered the flag to the deck, where lay its too loyal supporter. Thus ended the Minister of War's little piece of after-dinner drollery, and by the same hand that began it. Suddenly Don Sabas gave a great cry of joy, and ran down the slanting deck to the side of Colonel Rafael. Across his arm he carried the flag of the extinguished navy. "Mire! mire! senor. Ah, Dios!
In Rome, in London, in Paris, in Vienna, you will hear them say: 'Welcome back, Don Sabas. Come! tonto baboon of a boy admiral, whatever you call yourself, turn your boat. Put us on board the Salvador, and here is your pay five hundred pesos in money of the Estados Unidos more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years." Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand.
Sabas Orros to whom we also owed the signal favour that Villa did not take us to our prisons at Tumauini and Gamut on foot and with our clothing in a bundle at our backs." On October 2 a banquet was given in Villa's honour at Ilagan and the pleasant idea occurred to him to have four of the friars dance at it for his amusement.
It was through his famous skill and boldness on the sea, as well as for the pity felt for his mental imperfections, that he was recommended by the collector as a suitable custodian of the captured sloop. When the outcome of Don Sabas' little pleasantry arrived in the form of the imposing and preposterous commission, the collector smiled.
With your face to a wall. Yes." Don Sabas half turned and waved his hand, with a ringing laugh, toward his fellow fugitives. "To you, caballeros, I have related the history of that session when we issued that O! so ridiculous commission. Of a truth our jest has been turned against us. Behold the Frankenstein's monster we have created!" Don Sabas glanced toward the shore.
Under date of February 8th we have an account of the operations of the Spanish General Sabas Marin, who left Havana a short time before. His campaign in search of General Gomez was disastrous, and the official reports of Spanish victories were misleading. There were losses on both sides, but Marin accomplished absolutely nothing of what he intended to achieve.
O-he! old grumbler beyond the ocean. Wait till Don Sabas comes again to the Koenigin Strasse. He will let you kneel and touch the folds of it with one finger. O-he! old spectacled ransacker of the world!" Forgotten was the impotent revolution, the danger, the loss, the gall of defeat.
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