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... after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London, and T om May had returned to Cambridge, leaving the home party at t... ...re could not save him from an attack on the chest, that settled his public-school education for ever, to his severe mortifica- tion, just when Tom’s s... ...n young Ward, but on his father; and till medical assistance was sent from London, they had the whole town on their hands, and for nearly a week lived... ...ave stuck to old Axworthy’s place in Minster Street—daughter at that grand school, where she cost more than the whole half-dozen of you put together.’... ... a household of convalescents in the stage for kitchen physic. Passing the school, still taking its enforced holiday, the fa- ther and daughter traver... ...ed Leonard. ‘See; beg, my man, beg!’ And the beauteous little black-coated King Charles erected itself on its hind legs, displaying its rich ruddy tan... ...roof of Ethel’s wisdom, and proceeded. ‘Well, she is descended from a real King Charles, that Charles II. brought from France, and gave to Mrs. Jane L... ...d be so cruelly ruined, and Marmion’s baseness succeed. It would be like a king wilfully giving wrong judgment because the right side failed in some r... ...ck and head, and caress the long thin fingers. ‘I’ve left Minna, like King Alfred, to watch the cakes,’ she said; ‘and Ella is getting the cups. So yo...

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...our, Mr. Stringer, the milkman. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in t... ...d more houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itsel... ...king event. It was the unanticipated and entirely successful flight of Mr. Alfred Butteridge from the Crystal Palace to Glasgow and back in a small bu... ...no disaster, and it was onlv on the crest of the downs between Wrotham and Kingsdown that disaster came. They had come up the hill in the twilight; Be... ... WASHINGTON STILL SILENT. WHAT WILL PARIS D0? THE PANIC ON THE BOURSE. THE KING’S GARDEN PARTY TO THE MASKED TWAREGS. MR. BUTTERIDGE TAKES AN OFFER. L... ...ave her die in a wicker- work basket nine feet square—she who was made for kings’ palaces! Keep holt of this car! Is there a strong man among ye to ta... ...o. She came-to suddenly and violently with a loud, heart-rend- ing cry of “Alfred! Save me!” And she waved her arms search- ingly, and then clasped Mr... ...im until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned him out of school to begin that career of private enterprise we have compactly recorde... ...rt, at your service.” “But you speak English!” “Mother was English—went to school in England. After- wards, Rhodes scholar. German none the less for t...

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...l in the service of the Repub- lic. With her lived Victorine T aillefer, a schoolgirl, to whom 10 Father Goriot she filled the place of mother. These... ...ments out of which a complete society might be con- structed. And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women ... ...erformed with marvelous dexterity. “Why, he must be as strong as Augustus, King of Poland!” said Eugene to himself when the bar was nearly finished. F... ...ng with silk—in short, it was a splen- did affair, and I was as happy as a king—” “Fisher,” put in Vautrin, interrupting. “What do you mean, sir?” sai... ... you mean, sir?” said Eugene sharply. 41 Balzac “I said ‘fisher,’ because kingfishers see a good deal more fun than kings.” “Quite true; I would much... ...if they were so many pebbles, at your feet. ‘Take it, my beloved! Take it, Alfred, Adolphe, Eugene!’ or whoever it was that showed his sense by sacrif... ...but those of good cheer; in this matter, in fact, he was a gourmand of the schools of Louis XVIII. and of the Duc d’Escars, and luxury was supplemente... ...noticed, too, that Nucingen had sent bills for large amounts to Amsterdam, London, Naples, and Vienna, in order to prove if necessary that large sums ...

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...s against the walls of a ruined house. “All this within a hundred miles of London,” he said. “Looks as if it had had nervous prostration, too.” The, f... ...ole in the roof. “Nah—none dies here excep’ falling off ricks and such. In London they died.” He plucked a lock of wool from his blue smock. “They was... ...oung lady. They’ll be going away in a little. An’ you’ve talked a lot too, Alfred.” “Yes, but the Elphicks are all dead. No one can bring my loose tal... ...d improve- ments, they had soon fallen in with the customs of their hidden kingdom, and moved about the soft-footed ways by woodland, hedgerow, and sh... ...e best man-doctor in the place; a lady-doctor, who cured the sick wives of kings; and the Deputy Inspector-General of the veterinary service of all In... ... ORRESPONDENCE CE CE CE CE Sky Sky Sky Sky Skylar lar lar lar larking on t king on t king on t king on t king on the Eq he Eq he Eq he Eq he Equat uat... ... theories are today as exploded as the ludicrous deductions of the Spanish school. In the place of their fugi- tive and warring dreams we have, defini... ...plane) on the flank of Hecla between Herrera, then a pillar of the Spanish school, and the man destined to confute his theories and lead him intellect... ...ere he kept his barometers.” To the last Lavalle was a Catholic of the old school, ac- cepting—he who had looked into the very heart of the light- nin...

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...ed on two points—the uses of words and the fashions of dress. God Save the King, the national air of England, is a tune written by Lulli for the Choru... ...n is not the parent of the lionne. The lionne is due to the famous song by Alfred de Musset: Avez vou vu dans Barcelone . . . . . . C’... ...about la Franche Comte, who began by writing them a leading article of the school of the Charivari. The chief of the moderate party, a member of the m... ...some flirtations among the grisettes of Besancon who looked up to him as a king; his affairs might perhaps have been all the more hopeful with the str... ...bilities were utterly unknown. Albert quietly kept the upper hand and made Alfred Boucher his devoted adherent. Alfred was the only man in Besancon wi... ...er his devoted adherent. Alfred was the only man in Besancon with whom the king of the bar was on familiar terms. Alfred came in the morning to discus... ... only man in Besancon with whom the king of the bar was on familiar terms. Alfred came in the morning to discuss the articles for the next number with... ...he province the man- ner, the brilliancy, if you will, of the new literary school, it could not fail to be a masterpiece to a young girl abandoning 2... ...sense of the word. They were of the same age; they had learned at the same school; and after studying the law, they were spending their holiday in the...

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...existed in large quantities be- fore the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in smal... ...He came and went without any very apparent reason. He generally arrived in London (like the in- fluenza) from the Continent, only he arrived unheralde... ...world. It should be as careful 37 Joseph Conrad as the education given to kings. He would have it advance its tenets cautiously, even timidly, in our... ...he’s left alone.” Mr V erloc made no comment. “I wish he had never been to school,” Mrs V erloc began again brusquely. “He’s always taking away those ... ...se down a shabby street, littered with straw and dirty paper, where out of school hours a troop of assorted children ran and squabbled with a shrill, ... ...h of lightning in the fog. At that time he was standing at the door of the King William Street Lodge talking to the keeper. The concussion made him ti... ...aelis, young and slim, locksmith by trade, and great frequenter of evening schools, did not even know that anybody had been killed, his part with a fe... ...It was not the eyes nor yet the lips exactly. It was bizarre. But does not Alfred Wallace relate in his famous book on the Malay Archipelago how, amon... ...he slavish of mind. They have power. They are the multitude. Theirs is the kingdom of the earth. Exterminate, exterminate! That is the only way of pro...

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...o days’ time at latest, and afterwards the detested coupe could go back to London. The day was still young, and after lunch and coffee upon a sunny la... ...tforward physi- ological teaching and some dissecting of rats and mice. My schoolmaster was a capable sane man in advance of his times and my people b... ...to had self-consciousness. And so far as we are concerned, we are the true kingship of the world. Necessarily. We who know, are the true king….I wonde... ... wasting away and the climate changing imperceptibly, century by century…. Kings and important men followed one another here for centuries and centuri... ...y dis- tresses as very little incidents in that perspective. Away there in London the case is altogether different; after three hours or so of the Com... ...nd what do you find you are?” 85 H G Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals.” “You feel all this country ... ...hundred years older than Salisbury, perched on a hill, a Saxon town, where Alfred had gathered his forces against the Danes and where Canute, who had ... ... ideas, you fall into my ways of thought as though we had gone to the same school.” “Perhaps we have gone to the same school,” she said. “You mean?” “... ...wo ruling strains. I was a spoilt child at home, a rather reserved girl at school, keen on my dignity. I liked respect. I didn’t give myself away . I ...

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...es in almost every house; in some he recognised the burly form of some old schoolfellow—a boy when he last saw him—surrounded by a troop of merry The... ... ‘Jingle,’ said that versatile gentleman, taking the hint at once. ‘Jingle—Alfred Jingle, Esq., of No Hall, Nowhere.’ ‘I shall be very happy, I am sur... ...shall be very happy, I am sure,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘So shall I,’ said Mr. Alfred Jingle, drawing one arm through Mr. Pickwick’s, and another through ... ...ng. He coughed; she looked up and smiled. Hesitation formed no part of Mr. Alfred Jingle’s character. He laid his finger on his lips mysteriously, wal... ...he borough of Eatanswill, in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Loud and long were the cheers, and mighty was the rustling of one ... ...e rain slanting down like the lines they used to rule in the copy books at school, to make the boys slope well. For a moment it would die away, and th... ...m with big closets, and a bed which might have served for a whole boarding school, to say noth ing of a couple of oaken presses that would have held ... ... of Messrs. Dodson & Fogg, two of his Majesty’s attorneys of the courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas at Charles Dickens 255 Westminster, and soli... ...er,’ said the magistrate, in a determined manner. ‘if the authority of the king’s officers is set at naught, we must have the riot act read. If the ci...

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... morning. The manner of my lighting on it was this. I was travelling towards London out of the North, intend ing to stop by the way, to look at the h... ..., respectively named Grungers and Scadgingtone. And Prince Arthur, nephew of King John of England, had de scribed himself as tolerably comfortable in... ...ld have left her endearing and bright face behind. They drew the Clock Room. Alfred Starling, an uncommonly agreeable young fellow of eight and twenty... ...ever able to make, would keep from shaking, in any weather, wind or no wind. Alfred is a young fellow who pretends to be “fast” (another word for loos... ...mbined with real business earnestness, and “goes in”—to use an expression of Alfred’s—for Woman’s mission, Woman’s rights, Woman’s wrongs, and everyth... ...ef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion, and invariably, when he goes to London, packs a piece in his portmanteau. He had also volunteered to brin... ...e” Charles Dickens 34 angelic little wife, and where is the boy I went to school with?” I entreated the phantom to be comforted, and above all thin... ...and above all things to take heart respecting the loss of the boy he went to school with. I represented to him that probably that boy never did, withi... ...rged that I myself had, in later life, turned up several boys whom I went to school with, and none of them had at all answered. I expressed my humble ...

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...learn Persian,” broke in a thin, eld- erly gentleman. “Is there no retired schoolmaster or man of letters in Manchester with whom she could read Per- ... ... morning in question, she made her away across Lincoln’s Inn Fields and up Kingsway, and so through Southampton Row until she reached her office in Ru... ...About four o’clock on that same afternoon Katharine Hilbery was walking up Kingsway. The question of tea 69 Virginia Woolf presented itself. The stre... ...an compare with your grandfather? Let me see. There’s Chenier and Hugo and Alfred de Musset—wonderful men, but, at the same time, there’s a richness, ... ...Day “Only as the head of the family—” “But I’m not the head of the family. Alfred’s the head of the family. Let them apply to Alfred,” said Mr. Hilber... ...u know.” Katharine read what her mother had written. She might have been a schoolmaster criticizing a child’s essay. Her face gave Mrs. Hilbery, who w... ...had said, to wear a marvelous dignity and calm, as if they had ruled their kingdoms justly and deserved great love. Some were of almost in- credible b... ...nd in the second by remarking: “No, men are not the same as women. I fancy Alfred Tennyson spoke the truth about that as about many other things. How ... ...d talk to them. There’s a man in my office who knows all about the Flemish school. I was telling Miss Datchet about the Flemish school. I picked up a ...

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...ver in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial allian... ...f my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr Dombey, after looking at him attentively, ... ...to be in the main a good-natured little body , although a disciple of that school of trainers of the young idea which holds that childhood, like money... ...stitution; and also asked him, as a practi- cal man, what he thought about King Alfred’s idea of mea- suring time by the burning of candles; to which ... ...tion; and also asked him, as a practi- cal man, what he thought about King Alfred’s idea of mea- suring time by the burning of candles; to which the w... ... gap in the long monoto- nous street. But Florence bloomed there, like the king’s fair daughter in the story. Her books, her music, and her daily teac... ...k drew off as from a criminal, and reversing the precedent of the murdered king of Denmark, regarded her more in anger than In sorrow.’ ‘Lucretia!’ sa... ...kles and his bristly head of hair, and Mr Feeder’s brother, the Rev- erend Alfred Feeder, M.A., who was to perform the ceremony , were all assembled i... ...two gauzy little bridesmaids fluttered like moths. Mr Feeder’s brother, Mr Alfred Feeder, M.A., had already gone on, in advance, to as- sume his offic...

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...must be a supreme struggle. In Shakespeare’s time it was the people versus king storm that was brewing. Majesty was about to have its head off. Come w... ...MR. BARLOW (his father). OLIVER TURTON. JOB ARTHUR FREER. WILLIE HOUGHTON. ALFRED BREFFITT. WILLAM (a butler). CLERKS, MINERS, etc. ANABEL WRATH. MRS.... ...ABEL. About the world?—no, Mrs. Barlow. If one hap- pens to know Paris and London— MRS. BARLOW. Paris and London! Well, I don’t say you are all togeth... ...dear, hand Miss Wrath the sweets. I hope they’re good. I ordered them from London for you.—Oliver, my boy, have you everything you like? That’s right.... ...ARTHUR. No, I don’t follow what you mean. GERALD. Don’t you? But I thought Alfred Breffitt and William Straw were not very popular. JOB ARTHUR. No, th... ...e road—and the brook—and the dull noise of the town—and the beating of New London pit—and voices— and the rooks—and yet it is so still. We seem so sti... ...dience and order, and he’d behave himself to-morrow as if he was at Sunday school, no matter what he does to-day.— No, what you’ll do, Job Arthur, you...

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...um. We must not, in things temporal, take from those who have little, the little that they have; the merits of prose are inferior, but they are not th... ...he present connec- tion. We have been accustomed to describe the heroic line as five iambic feet, and to be filled with pain and confusion whenever, a... ...nd confusion whenever, as by the conscientious schoolboy, we have heard our own description put in practice. ‘All night | the dread | less an | gel un... ...roups, each practically uttered as one word: the first, in this case, an iamb; the second, an amphibrachys; the third, a trochee; and the fourth, an a... ... of Scot- land, having been during many years greatly more corrupt than the government of England, should have fallen with a far heavier ruin. The mov... ... 18 Robert Louis Stevenson ing men into the Field did not think it Fair that they should be outV oted by gentlemen From Ireland, and From the Low Koun... ...e the reader. On the one hand, the Hebrew psalms are the only religious poetry on earth; yet they contain sallies that savour rankly of the man of blo... ...s of man’s life, the truth of literary art, is free of the ages. It may be told us in a carpet comedy, in a novel of adventure, or a fairy tale. The s... ...ia, and America being all obligatory scenes. But of these India was strange to me except in books; I had never known any living Indian save a Parsee, ...

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...ver in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial allian... ...f my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr Dombey, after looking at him attentively, ... ...to be in the main a good-natured little body , although a disciple of that school of trainers of the young idea which holds that childhood, like money... ... take a voyage to Chaney, Mrs Richards, but I mayn’t know how to leave the London Docks.’ Richards assented to the proposition. ‘This house ain’t so e... ...UGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices were no... ...n married his master’ s daughter.’ ‘“Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it,”’ interposed th... ...stitution; and also asked him, as a practi- cal man, what he thought about King Alfred’s idea of mea- suring time by the burning of candles; to which ... ...tion; and also asked him, as a practi- cal man, what he thought about King Alfred’s idea of mea- suring time by the burning of candles; to which the w... ... gap in the long monoto- nous street. But Florence bloomed there, like the king’s fair daughter in the story. Her books, her music, and her daily teac...

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...hy, you see,’ said Fanny, with a frank action of her pretty shoulders, ‘in London one knows every one. We met her on our way here, and, to say the tru... ...use at Brighton, and being, of course, unable, don’t you see, to remain in London when there wasn’t a soul there, and not feeling herself this year qu... ...n the way of her association with Mrs Gowan by making the Prunes and Prism school excessively polite to her, but not very intimate with her; and Littl... ...ottage, where he encountered the elder Master Plornish just come home from school. Examining that young student, lightly, on the educa- tional proceed... ...ho had in a manner revised the New Testament, and already entered into the kingdom of Heaven. The man who could have any one he chose to dine with him... ...me with her for the holi- days. She was worse at home than she had been at school. She had a crowd of cousins and acquaintances, and we had dances at ... ... of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had been in a manner whirled away before the... ...epeated it audibly, that he started to hear the next verse. ‘Of all the king’s knights ’tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine; Of all the king’... ...hat the Marshalsea is. V ery close. Exces- sively confined. Whereas in the King’s Bench—’ Mr Rugg waved his right hand freely, as expressing abundance...

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... Shottle House, where the Bricknells lived; the Bricknells were odd, also. Alfred Bricknell, the old man, was one of the partners in the Colliery firm... ...ly a field-path trekked away to the left. On this particular Christmas Eve Alfred Bricknell had only two of his children at home. Of the others, one d... ...owner may well enjoy, a great, intense mass of pure red fire. At this fire Alfred Bricknell toasted his tan, lambs-wool-lined slippers. He was a large... ...er only child. She had done well in her shop. She had wanted Aaron to be a schoolteacher. He had served three years apprenticeship, then suddenly thro... ...oat, seized his letters, and gone. It was a rainy night. Lilly turned down King Street to walk to Charing Cross. He liked being out of doors. He liked... ...” said Lady Franks. “I think it is a very great honour to have got it. The king was most gracious, too— Now the other. That goes beside it—the Italian... ...-having habit. And he had just wit enough to threaten Sir William’s golden king with his own ivory queen and knights of wilful life. And Sir William q... ...lity of beauty. That was a cross hard to bear. Yet even that she bore. And schooled herself into a fretful, petulant manner of indiffer- ence. Her odd... ...o Rome?” He spoke in precise, par- ticularly-enunciated words, in a public-school manner, but with a strong twang of South Wales. “Why, Angus,” came t...

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... its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than the... ...ostering home of his religious emo- tions—they were Christianity and God’s kingdom upon earth. A weaver who finds hard words in his hymn-book knows no... ...hbours, though not all of them as honest as their ancestors in the days of King Alfred, had not imaginations bold enough to lay a plan of burglary . H... ...s, though not all of them as honest as their ancestors in the days of King Alfred, had not imaginations bold enough to lay a plan of burglary . How co... ...ke Squire Cass’s, with a monument in the church, and tan- kards older than King George. But it would be a thousand pities if Mr. Godfrey, the eldest, ... ...k. I’ve laid by now, and gev up to the young uns. Ask them as have been to school at Tarley: they’ve learnt pernouncing; that’s come up since my day.”... ...ssions, rising to the climax of Mr. Kimble’s experience when he walked the London hospitals thirty years back, together with striking professional ane... ...sions, was necessarily shocking. Miss Nancy, indeed, had never been to any school higher than Dame Tedman’s: her acquaintance with profane literature ...

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... its nest and back; and that was how folks got over wise, for they went to school in this shell less state to those who could teach them more than the... ...ostering home of his religious emotions — they were Christianity and God’s kingdom upon earth. A weaver who finds hard words in his hymn book knows not... ...ghbors, though not all of them as honest as their ancestors in the days of King Alfred, had not imaginations bold enough to lay a plan of burglary. Ho... ...s, though not all of them as honest as their ancestors in the days of King Alfred, had not imaginations bold enough to lay a plan of burglary. How cou... ... like Squire Cass’s with a monument in the church, and tankards older than King George. But it would be a thousand pities if Mr. Godfrey, the eldest, ... ...k. I’ve laid by now, and gev up to the young uns. Ask them as have been to school at Tarley: they’ve learned pernouncing; that’s come up since my day.... ...ssions, rising to the climax of Mr. Kimble’s experience when he walked the London hospitals thirty years back, together with striking pro fessional a... ...sions, was necessarily shocking. Miss Nancy, indeed, had never been to any school higher than Dame Tedman’s: her acquaintance with profane literature ...

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...ny changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good. Where are now the warring kings, Word be-mockers?--By the Rood, Where are now the watring kings? An idle word is now their glory, By the stammering schoolboy said, Reading some entangled story: The kings of the old time are dead; The wandering earth h...

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...-- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLA...

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..........................................................................198 KING PEST .................................................................... ...most of his property at his death. He sent me, at six years of age, to the school of old Mr. Ricketts, a gentleman with only one arm and of eccentric ... ... known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at his school until I was sixteen, when I left him for Mr. E. Ronald’s academy on ... ... shell cut adrift as useless, the captain (Captain E. T. V . Block, of New London) was for proceeding on his course without troubling himself further ... ...jaded appearance—of course, it would not have borne a very rigid scrutiny. Schoolboys, however, can accomplish wonders in the way of deception, and I ... .... On the twenty-fifth of March, 1824, the Berwick, Cap- tain Jeffrey, from London to V an Diemen’s Land, arrived at the place, where they found an Eng... ...to the three men whom we intended to leave behind. These were John Carson, Alfred Harris, and ___ Peterson (all natives of London, I believe), who vol... ...there were eight islands in the group- that they were governed by a common king, named Tsalemon or Psalemoun, who resided in one of the smallest of th... ... an animal of huge size to be found only in a valley near the court of the king—that the inhabitants of the group fabricated no other boats than the f...