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Last week Fuzzy Wuzzy (Osman Digna, called "The Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown...
...tamen Doctor A. Doctori B. praestat. Infeliciter alter alteri invidet, neque alter occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit, quod, amici mei, si vobis placcat, libenter narrabo. Me mortuum esse et ad Paradisum iter contendisse somniavi. Petro Sancto invento, ut intrarem, ab ipso petii. 'Quis es?' rogat Petrus. 'Doctor A., Bostonianus,' respondeo. 'Doctor...