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He had been a member of the Lewis Gun team. Very early in the advance the bursting of a high explosive shell had buried him, buried the whole gun team with its officer, buried the gun. Wakeman and three other men and the officer had crawled out from the mud and débris. Somehow they had unearthed the gun.

Wakeman and Jennings, respectable citizens of this town, now living, who belonged to the brigade of the late General Silliman, the information of which gentlemen on any subject can be relied on, and will be no otherwise than correct, however prejudice or other cause might occasion a reluctance in disclosing the information in their power to give; yet duty impelled their narrative, and the neglecting an opportunity to give evidence of noble acts and unrewarded worth they consider ingratitude.

"I couldn't sell you both of mine, as I wouldn't have one; but, Wakeman, if I part with one of mine will you do the same?" "Yes; for I know they'll need the arms before they get back to San Francisco." "Then the question is, what will you ask us for the two guns?" "Can you give us a hundred dollars?" "Apiece?" "No, no, no; for both of 'em." "Yes; we will gladly do that." Now came the crisis.

One of the most interesting of these, I believe, was established by the Saxon Edgar or Alfred it matters not which; they were only a century or two apart, and that space is but a trifling circumstance in the history of this old country. One of these kings appointed an officer called a "wakeman" for the town.

"Rich!" laughed Ned Trimble. "Well there, we're everything but rich. Somehow or other we hain't had the luck. We sold a claim up in the diggings for five hundred dollars, and the next week the party sold it for fifteen thousand. That's the way it has always gone with us; but we are going to be rich yet ain't we, boys." "Yes, if we only live long enough," replied Wakeman.

I hope by this time your term of bachelorhood is at an end, and that Mrs. Wakeman and the children are with you. If she has arrived, please convey to her my acknowledgments for the card she left for me, and say how much I regretted not seeing her. As I have not many occasions for writing notes to you, Mr.

"The postmaster at Wakeman, Huron county, Ohio, having heard of this Pen Co., sent for a circular, which was at once forwarded.

Thus she pays to man the debt she owes to God for the cross over the grave of one son dead, and the unconquerable spirit of the other crippled. It was a slack hour when Private Wakeman, in his grotesquely tattered clothes, limped through the door. Only a few men were in the hut, writing or playing draughts. A boy at the piano was laboriously beating out a discordant version of "Tennessee." Mrs.

HENRY IV, RICHELIEU, AND MAZARIN. Brief general accounts: H. O. Wakeman, The Ascendancy of France, 1598-1715 , ch. i-vii; Mary A. Hollings, Renaissance and Reformation, 1453-1660 , ch. xi, xii; J. H. Sacret, Bourbon and Vasa, 1610-1715 , ch. i-vii; A. J. Grant, The French Monarchy, 1483-1789, Vol. V, ch. vi-viii, Vol. VI, ch. i. More detailed works: Histoire de France, ed. by Ernest Lavisse, Vol.

In the library there is a collection of very early printed books and other relics of the minster that add very greatly to the interest of the place. The monument to Hugh Ripley, who was the last Wakeman of Ripon and first Mayor in 1604, is on the north side of the nave facing the entrance to the crypt, popularly called 'St.

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