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Bicknell together visited Poland and saw with their own eyes the necessity for relief.
Throat, windpipe, jugular, all but actually severed, and the loss of blood frightful. As it was such a foregone conclusion, Doctor Bicknell had employed methods and done things which made them, even in their professional capacities, shudder. And lo! the man had recovered.
It was Semper Idem's recovery which had so fully compensated Doctor Bicknell for the loss of the sailorman. Lives were to him as nothing, the unpleasant but inevitable incidents of the profession, but cases, ah, cases were everything.
'I was just going to show you when you stopped me. 'Hold on; no need of bein' in a sweat about it. Do yer come alone? 'No. I came with a hunter. 'What war his name? 'Baldy Bicknell. 'B'ars and bufflers! did yer come with him? 'Yes; he was my companion all the way. 'Whar mought he be? Johnny Brainerd hesitated a moment.
The steward, deeming it impossible that he could have caught the gist of the case, repeated it. "Yes, yes," Doctor Bicknell said impatiently; "I understand. But how about Semper Idem? Is he ready to leave?" "Yes. They're helping him dress now," the steward answered, passing on to the round of his duties, content that peace still reigned within the iodine-saturated walls.
Hurrying to Omaha to assist in relief work in that city, Ernest P. Bicknell, of the American National Red Cross, halted in Chicago. Informed of the serious situation in Indiana and Ohio, he telegraphed to Omaha and received word that the relief work was well in hand. He then decided to go to the flood-stricken districts in Indiana and Ohio. Reaching Columbus, Mr.
WHEN Ethan Hopkins had surveyed the steam man fully, he drew a long sigh and exclaimed: 'Wal, naow, that's too had! 'What's that? inquired Bicknell, who had been not a little amused at his open-mouthed amazement. 'Do you know I've been thinking of that thing for ten years, ever since I went through Colt's pistol factory in Hartford, when I was a youngster? 'Did you ever think of any plan!
As yet he had not stirred his body, and looking toward the prison wall, he caught a glimpse of the phantom-like figures, as they occasionally flitted about, securing the best possible position, before the whites should awake. This glimpse made everything plain to the practical mind of Baldy Bicknell. He comprehended that the red-skins had laid a plan to entrap the steam man.
'I don't s'pose yer know me, said the stranger, as he stepped inside and allowed the boy to secure the door behind him. 'I never saw you before. 'I am Baldy Bicknell, though I ginerally go by the name of 'Baldy. 'That's rather an odd name. 'Yas; that's the reason. As he spoke, the stranger removed his hat and displayed his clean-shaven pate. 'Yer don't understand that, eh?
Her wealth, the more notable at a time when the king was in debt, and the nation impoverished from expenditure necessary to warfare, was enormous. Andrew Marvell, writing in August, 1671, states: "Lord St. John, Sir R. Howard, Sir John Bennet, and Sir W. Bicknell, the brewer, have farmed the customs.
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