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His colleague, after transacting some unimportant routine business, adjourned the Court until the following day. Throughout the rest of the Term he was the sole occupant of the Bench. Judge Willis's conduct on this occasion does not admit of much diversity of opinion. For one thing, as was subsequently decided by the Privy Council, he was wrong in his view of the law.
No wind fall in with a largish island and four little ones, give them the name of Willis's Archipelago. "11th. A dead calm sea smooth as a mirror all of us dull and sleepy. "12th. Heat 90 deg. shot a boobie, roasted and ate him, rather fishy passed the night amongst some reefs. "13th. Same as the 12th, but no boobie. "14th. Same as the 13th.
You will find in my chapter on the Aperture, in the "Stones of Venice," full development of the aesthetic laws relating to both these forms, while you may see, in Professor Willis's 'Architecture of the Middle Ages, a beautiful analysis of the development of tracery from the juxtaposition of aperture; and in the article 'Meneau, just quoted of M. Violet le Duc, an equally beautiful analysis of its development from the masonry of the chassis.
By speaking kindly to the oxen I found that I could go very close to them; they had by no means forgotten human beings. On our way back to Willis's camp he reminded me of my promise. "Now, don't you tell where those oxen are; don't tell anybody!" "But, Willis, don't you think Jotham ought to know?" I asked. "No, I don't!" Willis exclaimed. "He has abused those oxen enough!
The distance was perhaps fourteen miles; and we had to travel on snowshoes, for at the time it was February the snow was nearly four feet deep in the woods. We had a fine time there in camp that night and the next morning went to look at Willis's traps.
It must have been written early in 1829, if not before, and it is noticed in the review of "The Token" in Willis's Boston periodical, "The American Monthly Magazine" for September, 1829, where it is described as a "pleasing story, told quite inartificially," and is illustrated by a brief extract.
So difficult is the reporter's art, that we can call to mind only two series of triumphant efforts in this department, Mr. Russell's letters from the Crimea to the London Times, and N.P. Willis's "Pencillings by the Way," addressed to the New York Mirror. Each of these masters chanced to have a subject perfectly adapted to his taste and talents, and each of them made the most of his opportunity.
There could be no doubt but what Jan chose more wisely than he knew in entering that tent. On the morning of the ninth day Jim Willis's word was a little better than the bonds of some men after the departure for the south of Beeching and Harry, Willis hit the trail upon the commission he had undertaken for Mike and Jock; or for the more richly moneyed powers behind those two.
Meanwhile the men in the cabin continued anxiously discussing their leader's absence, until after a few minutes Beamish swore irritably. "Curse that fool Benson," he growled. "What the blazes is keeping him all this time? I had better go and hurry him up. If they've got hold of Archer, it's time we were out of this." Willis's hand closed on the sergeant's arm.
The sweat was standing in large drops on Inspector Willis's brow as he eagerly asked had the tube been touched since leaving Scotland Yard, and his relief when he found he was still in time was overwhelming. Rather unsteadily he entered the vehicle and ordered the driver to return to the Yard. On arrival he was not long in making his test.
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