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The craft was then brought round by sea to Naniwa, "where it was enrolled among the Imperial vessels." Evidently from the days of Ojin and the Karano a fleet formed part of the Imperial possessions. This two-forked boat figures in the reign of Nintoku's successor, Richu, when the latter and his concubine went on board and feasted separately, each in one fork.
It had passed from station to station, like a torch blazing in the darkness and with a two-forked fire gratitude to France, hatred of England hatred rankling in a people who had come out of the very heart of the English stock as you would hew the heart out of a tree.
With a dozen courses open to them, any one of which might have saved the situation, they deliberately chose a thirteenth two-forked toboggan-slide into destruction.
By and by from the surging, roaring depths of the woods, there suddenly reverberated to him a deep boom as of a cannon: one of the great trees two-forked at the mighty summit and already burdened in each half by its tons of timber, split in twain at the fork as though cleft by lightning; and now only the pointed trunk stood like a funeral shaft above its own ruins.
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