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A tall and muscular young fellow with open-throated shirt and stalwart, hirsute chest, swaggered toward him, fingering rather carelessly, it seemed to Shillaber, the musket he held. "Lookin' for somebody, stranger?" he inquired, meaningly. Shillaber, somewhat taken aback, inquired by what right the members of this colony held possession.
Partington," and to him Barnum years later wrote to find out the author of this effusion. Mr. Shillaber replied as follows: CHELSEA, April 25th, 1868. MY DEAR MR. BARNUM: The poem in question was written by A. Wallace Thaxter, associate editor with Mr. Clapp and myself, on the Gazette since deceased, a glorious fellow who wrote th poem from a sincere feeling of admiration for yourself. Mr.
But little reliance is to be placed on slight variations in testimony, unless they are manifestly intentional. I think that Mr. Shillaber must be satisfied that he did not rightly understand Mr. Southwick. I confess I misunderstood Mr. Shillaber on the former trial, if I now rightly understand him. I, therefore, did not then recall Mr. Southwick to the stand. Mr.
There were too many squatters and too few police. Next he sent an agent to collect rents, but the man returned with a sore head and bruised body, minus coin. Shillaber was on the verge of insanity. He appealed to everyone from the prefect to the governor.
He did not deign to reply, but, as though he had given a signal, shrill cackles of laughter broke out in a dozen places. Shillaber, who was a choleric man, shook his fist at them. He was too angry for speech. Shillaber had more than his peck of trouble with the Sydney Ducks that roosted on his land. He sent the town authorities to dispossess them, but without result.
Shillaber, has been recalled to the stand, and states that Mr. Shillaber entirely misunderstood him. This is certainly most probable, because the controlling fact in the case is not controverted; that is, that Southwick did tell his wife, at the very moment he entered his house, that he had seen a person on the rope-walk steps, whom he believed to be Frank Knapp.
He pounded the table with his fist by way of emphasis. "And when we've done old Shillaber, we'll come in closer. We'll claim lots that are worth fifty thou " He paused. His tone sank even lower, so that some of his sentence was lost. It was at this juncture that Benito sneezed. He had felt the approach of that betraying reflex for some minutes, but had stifled it.
You know Who are your friends and who your foes now; We pay for knowledge as we go; And though you get some sturdy blows now, You've a fair field no favors crave The storm once passed will find you braver In virtue's cause long may you wave, And on the right side, never waver. The editor of the paper was Mr. B. P. Shillaber, better known as "Mrs.
Here, on the old government reserve, whose guns had once flanked Yerba Buena Cove, Shillaber had secured a lease on a commanding site which he planned to convert into a fashionable residence section. What was his surprise, then, to find the scenic promontory covered with innumerable rickety and squalid huts.
Now she swears positively, that her husband came into the house and told her that he had seen a person on the rope-walk steps, and believed it was Frank Knapp. It is said that Mr. Southwick is contradicted, also, by Mr. Shillaber. I do not so understand Mr. Shillaber's testimony. I think what they both testify is reconcilable, and consistent.
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