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9 On the scouts constituted a Plethora, -it seemed in- �Pasalon_eagerngg one fiery wouldnW put -.it past him to have"..
f�mtively forward, a4d_-when,hIg,.e are looking �oil roke f�om New, Haven and a an ithe determ- some sparj44ra ".In his clothis. ri New Jersey, cowistent with th olicy� ofwisdom inition of eagorhesB
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the world is to Rttempt a partial restitution.., Th the gate
1pnion started'to vQ46 his lugubrious� looking on!!, e forces -were hurlgdl toget�er in meant o
Now. with the stubborn, a t ;04 astest—until
�aXreement 'the. officer raUed an im- The head odh broke off as ft eating new collision the' retal4ing wall of me.,y he saw
resolve and f6roelty of- bull -dogs in a
very little, Maher a'
onlething like despair had -flesh bent back.a
Arative band" for §11 and A, Bilgh-ht
phokOd
pit, a crims6n team Poke thoughtfully and rath-
x m and, blue -stock- but no breaches were ra7limed through er in the ap bUte -,to ability
hi5 clai �ed. "Wasn't him., then he threw back his head and :,ged team plowed and battled � and its i
irit of tr
rd It didn�t
that a shot I hea Je ntegr�ty-
iound like a blowout nor yet -an ex� The. world is looking on than with any rancor of hostility in
his eyes spurted ts- of blaze. struggled on the white -stripe -A green Once more—if they held as weW_ his'voicb. ,He start, Pero s N e w
ed out as a and what below, while from base' to rim of the and
4i�uat :explosion lHistl there has it seen � so far ? The first ba the ball would -go tortbe visitors cat ahead of a ye
hasn't scor and a pandemonium Of, gladiato 0 -the headiest pickpocket
it! is. again that -way is over and Harvard huge bowl, of masonry reigned a babel on downs. veloped int 99 outfit, and de�
Ws a pistokbarkin'I" HAriiar has rial "Last down and
been held by one yard to gain!" we e,%�er had known our way.' We? v e
a -�xhortat!Gn. To Red Ryan it was all There came again
..A�he staccato never been able to send him over the
10filo-br Mahaffey wheeled'and went team that came 'as 'a sort of scrub zome*hat confusing.
j�unuing toward the sound, and as -he time -filler "What kick do barking of - signals and evens knew road for it, but we're pretty sure he's
Harvard has been they get out of it?" he silently ques- that the play was to Make its assault done
�,wgnt -other noises 'came 'to is ear �held by Si college that felt flattered at tioned himself.
"Now a coupla husky around his end! some high -;class
second -storey
4� lie began shriDing oil. hi the chance to come here' and The lines crouched work, too." Whistle
get lads in the ring
. . . Or a fairTpanting close to the eitth
mepts, and loa
$�r, r6ju §ehing the drubledy us The first half. field of selling -platers comin athe ball "Wallt to Pick him Ro J0,
Ukt4 'A -atei, - Over'l o , IF, over and the score is nothing-noth- home was napped, and,Harva�d leaped to the local bull, and M up?" inquired.
his grO lut wn
close-,bunched—I could' aher shook hisl
You men go back onto this Willy -boy lyncliinggbee� that, but a single finpulse. Thibre as thethud head.
e -7 -it rooks of human impact the h4rse grasp- ' "I don't know of a
had 'to run east, to BioadWay, that gridiron with disgrace staring cuckoo to me. What's it all about, Ing breath of st;r' any c 11 that', SEAFO�TH
next you I uglei.fhe straining been sent out forhim lately, but since
ioruer to his left and by that time the ten times
UP Broadway and around the n the face—unless you wipe out anyhow?" of massed conflict—and- then a d eaf- he's here it's just as well for YOU to
that first'half an& show
He had, not, come idly� and -he sat ening- roar from the compJaissing walls know his face.
first alarming sound had been aug- ',,hat you've shown so far. The foot patieht�',,but unthrilled When �Ithe of the at I'll send You the dope
adium. The 'ball had gone o hirn and his Bertil.lon reeord When
ment4d into a lf6rus of shouting ped- ball: world came ere �W%A,, 0affie� ended, is own activities would over for a touchdoWnt
"tria- and An outcry get back. It
ns arynard_t6,sho us?, and your begin. When tho crowds surged down Pan -might come in handy
�aisw.er, p
citement. it to 'dat�, is-' 'A squad Of, into -the field, spilling and casea demonium, chaos, -indescribable some time.,,
FkDni aAer down Broadway came weak-fishl" ding babel of horns and whia.tlbs and above
a
p making olid artillery roar of (continued next week.)
as throats. B&L-bour Sevens'
rele of young and milling about ii howling mpbs—then countle
the roar of a motorcycle co Ag in he paused, raked the over the walls of the stadium, and -them all the a (It Costs Little to Press Well at,R.
1.6r the same objective and along the Ci ants who. squatte(I and not till then would Red ----------- 40--
,iAreet were running other figures, yet gr!nily silent under his verbal lash— Ryan's straightened up, reelling,:g'asping, but
purpose in coming declare itself in translated to a seventh, , heaven of 'ELEVATOR SCREENINGS FOR
-Patrolman Mahaffey wag the first grimly silent but welted and stun of action. happiness. There could not be more tion died of it. Many fled, but
'�niformed man to reach the spot, anj heart nd conscience.
Then be 'would mingle, owling than a few seconds of play left. Har- of He,said that if they eft they wou,
"We mig4t have expected the FEED those who remained one in three di
Tl�� bubonic plague was of Euro that w4s a tribute to his fleetness of in to dervish -like with the ho-Aing crowds, vard would kick the goal—and then ed. probably infect, the- whol
uncork some trick offensives went and if his gift of craftsmanship did Stock feeders who eon pean side,, and he a(> inspired the
-well as. his: eagerness 9f.spir- with simp
on 'this battle -chaplain flerceiy, "but template pur- origin and no stranger to London. villagers - big high a
Western Canada nse of it. He could hardly stand, but he chasing screenings cleaned from the For a century before it had visited t1lat they agreed to remain and gjif",
He saw a car flirt round the corner they had no right to hold o forsake him he would emerge rocked on his feet jubilantly.
Harvard enriched in trea'sure, and currency, Then fell the devastating bolt of grain crop and of- England at intervals with varying
into Sixth Avenue before he reach- With their defense . . . That de- self -endowed with the jewels, watches, calamity' fered for sale by elevator companies the grim battle to the end.
-Ch
o ich civilian Ld fense ought to have been torn open and purses of the capitalist at severity. In 1563 it force
and frayed ragged t it couldn'tbe grasped. It Earl -d"
incredible but the sharp nearby �Chatsvvorfb�
e
tainment tion, and tben the grim -faced finality may be in Windsor whereon she promised to the village in volun
sprain- watched the strenuous enter aining the situation and i -el
'he knew1hat that car. which he was be torn ragged yet . . . Let's ful aloofness of qualities or grades of such ser4enings Er eted a gallows in the market place him n
take into �onsideration the several sor, and with characteristic vigor she exp]
men wen beginning to clusfer, and It must Meanwhile, with the slightly disdain- was too Iizabeth to leave London for Wind- Devonshire i
class. At fir the head of the Great Lakes should F d Queen Mompesson wrote to -the
quick to�,associate with -the crack of see . . . Carson's ankle is alien interests, be w1histl-blow, the whispered consulta- that are available, and that that he Would undertake to kee
guns,.had made Its escape. ed, isn't it? Sevens goes in at right of the capitalist class. of the referee as he took the ball and tion cer tary quara , nti Then, panting, he reached th ei d purchased subject to inspec
e dbor . . . and, for God's ske, re- If certain finessnes of gridiron a- began pacing 'back tificate if so hang any Londoner who should dare of the Earl would -undertake
ordered. Elevator to ri?k infecting the
'it -letters e instinct- A Prep es.
- the story with a mereff a the total dockage re- The Londoners took no chances; they Earlb 'agreed. , Mompesson comifien�d�
nient escaped him, other obser kee
ness sign in gi school!"' ass baldness. to
of a building whose number and bu,i- member Harvard is' a, university, not chievcr ive.. yards, told screenings, a -royal retreat. them in food. and nece,aar
vations he made more ' confidently. Harvard had been moved is termed, According to Mr. knew their good -Queen Bess. But ed himself and
ively noted and registered penalized. ar- G H. Clark, Dominion Seed Co the cit into,
without The moment of agonized suspense With the accuracy of a Maiden Lane vard had forfeited the touchdown and ' "'g' uIr his
auging.
'a hands and calmly awaited the-
tion� on the thejq�.ae.fb The play- woul�. missioner,. contains on an average 50 to its dangers. The most elempntary end of the tragedy.
P To the half -frightened and hung. intolerable nd for -no other -appraiser, he placed valuA stubbornly remained blind God little flock
clung man in stuffed armour- -was that ag- dfamorld ii -i the scarf of tbe fl6riJman ed �irit e resum-
per cent., or more Of chaff and. fine sanitation was gnored. 'Running or a mile rA&ius -Wjg
e visitors— five A, circle of half
in possession,
cLw, and
there like flies about a sticky saucer, Ony -90 tautly eraming as in the one row forward, and even on ithe yards away. weed' seeds. By recleaning, this re- stagnant water was around
he gave the force of his A heart of Barbour Sevens.
the curt command: "Gahg-way 'To mesh bag of' the pretty young lady Then in absolute corroboration of fuse material is largely removed and befouled, and the the Village outside f which the in- us and impossible ic habitants solemnly vowed not to
got
vard at all had never lost its tincture -hich has good feeding or private refuse. Cleanliness, fresh and to their eternal credit they kept
therey Sevens the fact of being at Har- whose rosy lips were so excitedly part- these disastro' -things. the balance, w air was pois 0
Let.me through!" ed just to his left--4he girl to whose came value is separated into
through, f the curt verdict of officialdom Standard Re- air and sanitary dwellings were ap- th
They let him y, W4: 'face of miracle. Always it had seemed a escort he had gallantly surrendered "Harvard's right end was offsiae. cleaned Screenings and Oat at vow. Every. morning at dawn,
was7red and his chin thrust I)Ut and dream from whichhe must presently his extra seats. The former consists chiefly ScalPingS. parently of -no value. L n_
'his hand gestured with a r, awake to* find himself thrust back i ondon, in messengers from the outside world.
Middletown's ball." of broken short, was ready to be wept by.dis- left
Red Ryan was from the Middle Sevens was the right end. The arying ease. And for fifteen months of proviss
wheat and wild' buckwheat in v askets
tol. Inside the door, whieh' stood to the twilight dulness of such pOv- West, but he had outgrown it. The penalty that had robbed Harvard of proportions with .,smalle —from spots on the boundary line, wide, he found himself.in a narrow erty,as prohibits a college career. bulls out there, both of ba quantities January 1665, to April 1666 --the them, Mompessons WeR, exists
hallway, and that,, too, contained s-ev- n a rley,.fla and. other coarse grains a -hes, had so embarrassed him conclusive minute of struggle ' lay posed ly described, did surely scourge that cuea ox th
Yet e was here, working his way plain clot harness and spectacular triumph in the fi al nd Present. 'Oat Scalpings is com "Spotted De th" as it w�s graphical- there to -day. Out of 360 people 267
unlicily Of �yild Oats' with a pe a
-eral idle onlokers—unless they were through �'his course,and though only a with their close attentions that he squarely at his door. Disgrace an- rcent�- city until the cold weather and the CA Plague, the rector's wife
b- therine, among them. rhe gra�e_-,
participants now posing as heciden- sophomore, he had made the team. had emigrated East, where his in- gulfed him. He stumbled back, a age of domestic oats, wheat, barley, Great Fire between them checked the Yard could not hold their bodri At
tal arrivals. Now he was being ordered into action. cognito was still inact. He stood bing, with his body racked and sha etc., invariably present. Oat scalp- disease, eased the panic, and gave the times they died so fast that theer5e was
"Get in that door with Ye k- -
anguish ngs
Men in hundreds who -could buy and now on the threshold of that larger en in, spasni -after spasm of from the 1925 crop have een People time to think and act sanely. no time for for all.
A117 of ye, and snap into it," com- sell him with their pocket -money world., lie knew nothing else. clearly unti* weighing between 35 and 40 pounds Pepys pluckily stayed in the city and Every Sunday burial rites
manded the patrolman, herdin them would have given years'of life to be The girl with the mesh bag came the whistle blew and then he threw per bushel. Mompess
9
ahead of him and swee on held ser -
Ping ith a in his place to -day, but a sense Of almost hysterically to in his diary gives a graphic story of vice in the open air, prayed God to swift glance the room upon whi, her feet and himself flat where he stood, clawing big personal experiences. Defoe part- stay, the pestilence, and tried to cheer
h overwhelming responsibility thrust at shrieked, if rne may use for so musi- at the mud.
ly from hearsay and records,and part- up
dwindling congregation..
the hall gave. He heard the motor- him like a capsizing puffs of gale. cil an outburst of excitement such a Unequipped with such erudition as CHRISTY MATHEWSON ly by the use of his remarkable im- Toward th
cycle chug to a stop outside, and re- If be made good for one hour this prosaic descriptive. She was only a clarified the situation to his- under- his e end of September only co orcements w
gnized that reinf ere,at afternoon he might construe his sue- kid. Red reflucted, but she sure was standing, Red Ryan failed to grasp agination, half a century later told 47 were left alive and early in Oc-
meaning. Can one man, by his personality and the gruesome; story still more vividly. tober 14 more succumbed: 33 sur -
hand, should he -need them. cess as an augury. He might make an eveful! NOW she stood -frenzied- its full and tragic example, change the whol The plague was horribly infectious vivors out of the original 36o!
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The picture that met his eyes other dreams come true all along the ly, Y�t not ungracefully, jumping up "It gets b me," he muttered to a great popular institution from that and swift in its work. A few hours The last plague burial was held through that door frame made him future—and be stood rembling like and down and waving a crimson pe- himself as. he shook his head in mysti- of the "roughneck" to that of gentle- or few days was'enough.
considered it starting barrier. prize esson
he stepped in and' with a chill, tremblings and terror, wrote in November, 1666:—
catch 'his breath for a moment, then an overwrought thoroughbred at the nant while her starry young eyes fication. "A likely lad in the men? No. Human nature is a stub It began on October lith an
broke into a sparkle of naive delight. ring ain't supposed to sob himself to born thing. But Christy Mathewson followed by nausea and reaching. "The conditi�n of this Place has
Th�'room was the office of a whole- "If you men don't redeem your- Also, she dropped her mesh bag. death because he only gets a draw did more to improve baseball as a Spots, blotches and eruptions broke been so sad th
sale Air' wayehouse, and this made selves this half," dOginatized the "Who is he?" demanded the girl, when he claimed a decision. He sport than all the other men wb at I Pas'dad4jinygelf
the third - robber 0 have out, People dropped dead on the it did exceed all history and exa
e y bearing the same head coach with desperate finality, lioarge from her shouting. "Who is climbs -through the ropes and plasters played it. piple.
bold tradi-mark 'that had afflicted his "you'll make a laughing stock of Har- he ? streets, when marketing, anywhere. Our town has become a Golgotha, the
a bum He was a great pitcher; one of the Some became camatose, others de- place of a skull. My ears have nev-
-and me "That," her escort declared, his too- Iamp an, that's that—but these high- very greatest who ever lived. That lirious, and ran shrieking to the er heard such doleful lamentaliOnS,
beat in the last ten days—but this. vard, of yourselves a piece of beefsteak over hi
was the first that had added murder You'll junk traditions that have been casual manner proclaiming him close brow sports lays down on the ground gave him his first hol(f on both the streets to die. The nights no longer my nose never -smelled such horrid
to theft, and for an instant the po- fought and sweated outin
for through of kin, "is Pudge Blackwell — I an, kicks an' screams. it gets by public and his fellow players. Twen- suffilced to biiry the dead, a -Ad the smells, my eyes never beheld such
liceman felt jarred with the shock. years and, as for myself, I don't see thought everybody knew Pudge.11 His me." ty years ago he shut out the Philadel- heavily 1eaped carts continued their ghastly spectacles."
Theid besides the ca'auals he how I -can go on with football any superior callm dropped suddenly away. 'His position enabled Red to reach phia Athletics in the three games he dreadful 'duties in broad daylight. There is a � monument in
ce Eyant
had driven ahead of him, two I men in longer. They ruay have some trick "By gracious,, he made his gain, too-- the field with the first breaker of the pitched in that World Series—a re e with a red cross Cburch to Catherine Mompesson, but
that room, or three if you counted the offensives. Don't give them a chain on the first down.' Go on Harvard!" human tide that spilled over, like cord never since equalled.
meln,DriAll
to spring- bhem—Smas Dd "I don't mean Pudge," objected the dark water from a bursted reservoir. before that he was the idol of the Upon Us!" Shops were shut up, the to the truly heroi
dead Ina h into lem a But even and the legend "Lord Have Mercy all that remains as a
There .,_ould be little doubt About tear 'am open. Their defense ought girl imperiously. "Of course I know Just before him was the gentleman baseball world, and so he remained c Mompesson is a
grass grew in the streets, the silences portrait showing his dreamy, melan-
his being. -dead, even in advance of a not to hold, us." - him. I mean the man who followed with the two -carat scarf pin,,- and to the end. It was not his wonder- were broken only by groans, lamen- choly
Ut inCloser � examination. The get; of the Then, clasping his blanket abo him through and broke up the tackle. both found the selves drawn ful pitching that made him countenance. The soft eyes
by the
ng none, and quacks womanly expression, but if ever a
story. to Mahaffey' eddying currents into a narrowl his character. - and the long hair gave him a tender,
eyes fii'the upturned face told that him and with giddi spots swimming He deserves all the credit." great, but tations and prayers. Medical organ
41 ting
U t is this
'he very life. himself trotting, out with the squad acbsent-mindedly. "That's Barb Sev- and begrimed warriors, in red.. One lived it. He never played a dirty frenzied people. /_ -redulitY' of the man had the heart of a lion 1
a, experielic that before his eyes, Barbour Sevens found "Oh," he escort enlightened a ization there -was
id f proclamation her circle about the group of swe He never preached 'his code. He flourished on the
rentle Anglican priest. After read -
e be slid- trick, on the field or off it. He never But while the histories record little !ng the record of London and Eyam.
bleeding'.Dgure lying so. awkwardly ellow of the sun dazzled him and team looks like a corner, denly bereft of reason, and to be in quarreled with an, umpire. He al- else but the horror and the seamy
lessness in the 'b iddle of the still- onto the fleld-where the drenching bns—asoph firstyearonthe of these seemed to hav
cruinple8' 6n the floor beside a- 6sk. floods of sound from twenty thousand though, doesn't he?" the hands of volunteers who sought to all that was in him. in 1666 well may we pray "From
ways gave
On b$§ boards there near tl�e centre throats submerged him. It side of the Great Plague, possibly the Plague, Pestilence and famine, Good
He's wonderful," breathed the restrain his ravings.
'h 'it -burned smokeless pow- our of the whole story is that concerning
of the,gb.4�e' lay 471 ititomatte pistol, gi takes courage to stand fast against saddest and yet the noblest chapter Lord deliver usl"—A. F.
rl. "Ab-so-lutelyl" With one forearm flung across his the spirit of your associates and y
and thong A young man with carroty hair ho Red Ryan retrlavitd and stored a- fade and his body shaken -by sobs time, but Mathewson did it�tnd
dAr stench of nitrate came occupied a- positioii of vanta a - the IiWe village of Eyam, nestling in
f7ge in It way n his coat j:rocket the forgotten Sevens was fighting off the men who ually even the roughest o
he h 'bag ught to comfort him; to Wrap him players began to see in him something from London. For the Angel of A NOVEL DINNER GOWN
freshly'shirip to the nostrils. central section of the stands realized f his e
the bills of Derbyshire, many miles
Of thi''two, livin one sat in that he wag being addressed by a nted contein tuously. in a -blanket against the raw evening they respected, though not all of them Death smote this uncrowded, wind -
a chair,., collapsed 9 netousled—per- stranger and looked inquiringly up.
wi athere ain't no valu- chill; to set him on his feet and lead knew What it was. And when he swept hanilet devastatingly with what
d all ie
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baps *buAded or perhaps exhausted "You've got an empty g��at each side ables in it," he told himself. "Still, him away. died, every true sportsman in Am The tropics have a fascination 'all
with dt6 their own. They would be irresis Ogle, and -the other stood ofyou,'O declared the youth who ha - the writer called "The Memorable tible
d you never can In the excitement -that seethed like Zrica paid him tribute. The flag flew Woe Of EYarn." It was an unlikely -were it not that the bum of the mos-
lookingr,,�Ok a tall, thin, elderly man bent toward him—'land t ten Oclock The bedlamites grew more mania- a swarm -of bees about that axis, Red at half mast over this year's Wor quito, like the trail of the
a 4'�l 11 clenched in his fist.+ this morning'I ran all over tow - cal. The gyrations of the cheer- Ryan did more than add his voice to Series, and the biggest me
I sti I spot for the plague to touch, but one serpent, Ib
ey, took in these dkails Ing to get one mare, n try ove
n li base- fine Septemberday in 1665 a village
but the chorus of volunteered and futile ball foliowed his coffin to the grave. tradesman there received a parcel of At the first dinner party that As in this section. leaders became more fantastic, r it all.
biother SA&B 'bame-throtigh the door They told me everything was sold Out Red Ryan, Intuitive in gauging crowd comforting. With a dexterity that But it was not in death
and that we clothes from London. His servant thy Dix attended in Singa
, lag �.ofan arriving a�had been gold for days." Psychology, recoghized a slackened bespoke a finished art, he freed the remembered this great player. poie she
patrol *096n,- order out The re<l�hiirad one grinned amiably. in to tells us in My Trip Aro *Grid
le go a- ings We spread them out before the fire und the dry. Two days 11ater he felt ill; in a ery t handed her a white pillow -
orale of 'weakened confidence and diamond scarf pin from its fasten remember him s he stood in the Pit
W ty. and,
side of "Looks like they lied to you," he made he grinned. at the gentleman's stout throat, cher's box, preparing to throw that three days the dreaded spots Appear- I had no idea,
E Sdf -d response. "Ov else somebody took "These.Haw-vard rooters are kid- opening the clasp of the mesh bag in famous "fade -away" Against Which ed - the next day he died. His master she says, what it was,f6r, and I wait -
fie tall what"You ktio sick or died or got locked'up,11 din, theinselves,o he shrewdly reflect- big pocket, slipped it -as the next victim, and by the end ed for my ostess's lead. She pro-
aglelY into that such Iniklity hitters as Delehanty and w
tt i's Of, ii, a "What I had in mifid—I 'mean to ed. gTheir steam roller's gone blooey receptacle.
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Baker often batted in vai. The of October the plague had elhimod ceeded calmly to slip her feet into it
that the, a I �61tatt TIf hazarded tM'other
in some erA- —and th4eY'rW bally-hooin, to keep Then, as they had diagged the t- briefest mention that Mathewson was thirty soT-Is The cold weather of and draw the strings about her ithtea.
gintlinki f�Purmje bArpagament, "would pu mind mOv- their toive tpll
and aiii, colfeigel� &t its" gure of the still raving Sevens to his to pj�ch for the Giants could fill any Winter ciiecked it, but by the follow_ It -Was to protect her feet and ankleg. who
vle Itt'i Into the , next, seat and lettffi� this - Pd-rhaps he e*en,laughed derisive- feet, someone forcibly throw an ov- baseball Park with men seldom ing midsummer 76 out of the 360 from the. mosquitoes, and she said
U a and several care to watch professional" baseball— inhabitants (one-fifth) had died. that ater n tho; season m6g
That in g0i�rdl la4y n& mvaelf iake -the Other two--�j ly, for the gentleman with the dia. ercoat over big sho Ider correct, Ot thard are 8'('imebody claims them ? We've, mond. scarf Pin wNich Red estimated' hands reached qtdto baga
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;ry 306,T not begin at the,- jga�' I�j got two big 'hata in front of U�.11 MughlY'at i�to cara out to button it in men who delight In skill and courage There was no dattor, but the vil- were jot as, mildh Provided nningo but,I`6 The. rod-haii oUng,,man grinned glared truculently at Mm, P. lage rector, the Rev. William Mom- tegi ts turned and place. This -Was apparently because And spotsmanshi
Abe; 6, 9 Von more arA ger
JA I, that fore.
the young man, in ig bereft state of He Was than the game Itself. peasion, a fragi scholarly y6ung s, unlovs one furn
il ILI man
nket about him In the
with a n and make, yoursel#esf Pr011fhae'.V settled an ominous tendency of gratuitous helpfulness, Red Ityan
stories, foi ihe_qceni� Witt, hid a "Sure, he exclaimed henAily. Over the crimsoh-deoked sectort of mind, conid not bd''persuadedto keep of 27, with a wife and two lit- 'hi's 6 Nor fiat as tl��
the stadium, as if in fulfilment of a bla '40' stq Be offices tle children, rose to the lrer�tidd 6V A,t the tible.
e5i to I h
ey, W AtrlhdMO, ltrgai to quie FROM PLAGUE AND FAMINE, With a heroism which will 81WAY8 et4irw the quieting of charitaNy collaborated-. Be laid rank with the best traditions of A'dd 4t thqt-
PrOM011itiOn and 9100M. The vigitora ready hands on the distracted Sevens,
r Too , 0
on- powe amadhiftt, had Une P4X% t, Atfitti0a;
0001) LORD DELIVER US. English civil or military hitoiy. Ile APO'irb
ghtlha`00 ral �Ight to menace m aloft voith others, who had, bettet sent his children awAy, but hia bravo+ a i*igeg. Witil a ftPa In 'Wh14
orked Cuded" himself ift the 'There have been plagues and wif I fused to leav
a WAS also 'numbered plagues, but it is doubt -f -al if :for cofi- W11 g6r' ad, b t him, A few fid
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him, And told,
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