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The Black Growler yielded a little in her course, however, and the danger was avoided, although the Varmint II by her trick regained the yard which she had lost at the previous stake. The boats now were speeding back toward the starting place. The entire course covered eighteen and three-eighths miles and each boat was supposed to cover the course three times.
When this is done we shall have raised the three-eighths of the face value of the one thousand private shares, as required, before the three counties' subscription to the other thousand shares can become effective.
The terms of that agreement were, That for the service at land, his Imperial Majesty should furnish ninety thousand men, the King of Great Britain forty thousand, and the States General one hundred and two thousand, of which there were forty-two thousand intended to supply their garrisons, and sixty thousand to act against the common enemy in the field; and with regard to the operations of the war at sea, they were agreed to be performed jointly by Great Britain and the States General, the quota of ships to be furnished for that service being five-eighths on the part of Great Britain, and three-eighths on the part of the States General.
Pendleton can draw a deed of sale that will stand in the courts between us, I'll take the risk on the validity of my title." He paused. "The law's sound on slaves, Judge Madison has a dozen himself, not all black either; not three-eighths black!" and he laughed. Then he turned to my father. "Mr. Pendleton," he said, "I persuaded Zindorf to send for you to draw up this deed of sale.
Before starting the engine, I tied an arm of the fly-wheel, at one-third greater distance from the centre than the length of the crank, to an upright beam of twelve inches diameter, which formed part of the frame of the engine. The cord used was the better kind of bed-cord, of great strength, nearly three-eighths of an inch thick.
Raise a few feet of that all but invisible plate three-eighths of an inch and she will yaw five miles to port or starboard ere she is under control again. Give her full helm and she returns on her track like a whip-lash. Cant the whole forward a touch on the wheel will suffice and she sweeps at your good direction up or down.
In the 'Eclipse's' day the distance between the two ports had become reduced to one thousand and eighty miles; consequently her average speed was a shade under fourteen and three-eighths miles per hour. In the 'R. E. Lee's' time the distance had diminished to about one thousand and thirty miles; consequently her average was about fourteen and one-eighth miles per hour.
"September wheat now seventy-one seven-eighths, seven-eighths, three-quarters, seven-eighths split, now the three-quarter, five-eighths, a half, a half, five-eighths, a half, a half again, three-eighths, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, an eighth, a quarter split, an eighth,
Instead, he called them out in a drawling sing-song: "September wheat now seventy-three, the half, five-eighths, a half, five-eighths split, now a half, three-eighths, a quarter, seventy-three!" Frye set his feet hard together, and clinched his hands. Only two cents in price stood between him and the loss of all his twenty years' saving.
Still more significant was the fact that a new policy was inaugurated by which the necessity of state support for the University was recognized; support which has never since been withheld, for the tax was successively increased to one-sixth of a mill in 1893, to one-fourth in 1899, and finally in 1907 to the present three-eighths of a mill.
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