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"It's pleasure ye call it; then there's no accountin' for tastes, as Dr. Colles said, when he saw me bite Cusack Rooney's thumb off." "Bite a man's thumb off!" said I, in a horror. "Ay," said he with a kind of fiendish animation, "in one chop; I wish you'd see how I scattered the consultation; begad they didn't wait to ax for a fee."
Christopher Colles, a native of Cork, was the originator of the grand scheme which united the waters of the Atlantic and the Lakes one of the greatest works of internal improvement ever effected in the United States while the gigantic project was carried to a successful end through the influence and direction of Governor DeWitt Clinton, the grandson of an Irishman.
#The Contagiousness of Inherited Syphilis.# In 1837, Colles of Dublin stated his belief that, while a syphilitic infant may convey the disease to a healthy wet nurse, it is incapable of infecting its own mother if nursed by her, even although she may never have shown symptoms of the disease.
I looked to see that Japp had not suffocated himself, then shut up the store, and went back to my room to think out this new mystification. The thing had come from Colles, for it was the private notepaper of the Durban office, and there was Colles' signature. But the pencilling was in a different hand.
To be sure the law may have something to do with it, for any one who lodges information against a tramp gets $15, and the gentleman of leisure presumably suffers accordingly, as the farmer is not likely to assess himself merely for the pleasure of housing lazy humanity. Just beyond the fifty-fourth mile-stone stands one of the old inns which is put down by Christopher Colles as Travers's Tavern.
"The abbey is situated at the bottom of a valley, according to the orders of Saint Bernard; for you know that if Saint Benedict loved the hills, Saint Bernard sought the low and moist plains wherein to found his convents. An old Latin line has preserved the different tastes of these two saints: "'Bernardus valles, colles Benedictus amabat."
'First, he said, 'let me hear what you know. Colles told me that you were a keen fellow, and had wind of some mystery here. You wrote him about the way you were spied on, but I told him to take no notice. Your affair, Mr Crawfurd, had to wait on more urgent matters. Now, what do you think is happening? I spoke very shortly, weighing my words, for I felt I was on trial before these bright eyes.
"I've raised three tomato plants and a family of kittens this summer, helped to plan a trousseau, assisted in selecting wall-paper for the room just inside, did you notice it? and developed a boy pitcher with a ball that twists around the bat like a Colles fracture around a splint!" "If you're going to be humorous "
And you found out everything for yourself? Colles was right; you're not wanting in intelligence, Mr Crawfurd. It was not much of a compliment, but I have never been more pleased in my life. This slim, grizzled man, with his wrinkled face and bright eyes, was clearly not lavish in his praise. I felt it was no small thing to have earned a word of commendation.
'They are here and behind me, he said in English, holding out his pot for my meal, while he began to edge into the middle of the road. I followed, and, speaking English, asked him if he knew of a man named Colles. 'I come from him, young Baas. Where is your house? Ah, the school. There will be a way in by the back window?
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