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Then there were no public schools for white children that amounted to much, and it was forbidden by law to teach colored children, now there are scores of schools, with their hundreds of teachers, and twenty- six thousand six hundred and ninety-six pupils in the white schools, and eleven thousand six hundred and forty pupils in the colored schools thirty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-six pupils in all.
"Faix, then, I'm jist as wise now as before ye begun to spake. I've no head for fagures whatsumdiver; an' to tell me that the strame is ninety-six miles long and three thousand miles broad at the mouth, and sich like calcerlations, is o' no manner o' use, and jist goes in at wan ear an' out at the tother."
I do not want to know in what words the King of Ashantee says, "Cut off the heads of those women." I do not want to know whether a centipede really has ninety-six legs or one hundred and four. I never did know. I never shall. I have no occasion to know. And I am glad not to have my mind lumbered up with the unnecessary information.
The Westerns were about ninety-six in number, 'with Hosius of Cordova for their father, bringing with him Athanasius and Marcellus, and supported by the chief Westerns Gratus of Carthage, Protasius of Milan, Maximus of Trier, Fortunatian of Aquileia, and Vincent of Capua, the old Roman legate at Nicæa.
Pennsylvania and New York, with nearly one-sixth of the entire population of the United States, have only four votes in ninety-six votes in the Senate. Fortunately, political alignments have rarely been between the greater and the smaller States exclusively. Their equality in the Senate was a big price to pay for the Union, but, as the event has shown, not too great.
"Ninety-six ninety-seven!" groaned Squills in a hollow voice. "I don't believe it!" cried my father, almost in a passion, "never better nor cooler in my life." "And the tongue Look at his tongue, Mrs. Caxton, a tongue, ma'am, so bright that you could see to read by it!" "Oh! Austin, Austin!"
When it was over, I witnessed an amusing rural scene. The people poured out of the church, I counted ninety-six, which is an extraordinarily numerous assemblage for Iceland, formed into little groups, chatting and joking, not forgetting, however, to moisten their throats with brandy, of which they had taken care to bring an ample supply.
He is a man of great physical strength and phenomenal endurance. He has been known to walk forty-eight hours at a stretch, and to pump ninety-six. His life is arduous and full of peril. A mistake in the working of a sum may keep him digging a fortnight without sleep. A repeating decimal in the answer might kill him.
He listened to Murgatroyd's heartbeat, while Murgatroyd dozed. "Maril," he said. "Write down something for me. The time, and ninety-six, and one-twenty over ninety-four." She obeyed, not comprehending. Half an hour later, still not stirring to disturb Murgatroyd, he had her write down another time and sequence of figures, only slightly different from the first.
The boat was a moving earthquake by this time: "How is she now?" "A hundred and ninety-six and still a-swelling! water, below the middle gauge-cocks! carrying every pound she can stand! nigger roosting on the safety-valve!" "Good! How's your draft?" "Bully! Every time a nigger heaves a stick of wood into the furnace he goes out the chimney, with it!"
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