The Strand Magazine, 10 tomas

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George Newnes
G. Newnes, 1895

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162 psl. - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock pm, on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
277 psl. - ... that some operation was going forward in his mind ; yet that operation could not, from the readiness with which the answers were furnished...
162 psl. - On our attention being called to the object it was discovered to be an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea...
163 psl. - It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter, that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognized his features with the naked eye...
100 psl. - It was a beautiful spring morning ; it was an hour's ride, and there was no other inside passenger. On the back of an old envelope I wrote in pencil the first two of the verses now so well known, in order to teach the tune to the village school supported by my step-mother, and which it was my province to visit.
677 psl. - I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing ! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven — but don't borrow. Try first begging — I don't mind if it's really needful — stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for...
229 psl. - I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
677 psl. - And of all manner of debtors pious people building churches they can't pay for, are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges — or in a sandpit — or a coalhole — first ? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me.
146 psl. - Bayard occupied another couple of hours — in the end, the jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty," and the prisoner was sentenced to five years
163 psl. - ... yellowish white about the throat. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed, washed about its back.

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