Word: mille
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ryan was badly whipped in the prize-fight at Mississippi City by Sullivan. Nine rounds were fought, and Ryan was badly punished, while Sullivan came out of the mill without a scratch...
Sullivan and Ryan are in active training at New Orleans for the coming mill next Tuesday. The former is the favorite...
They have invented a system of hiving bees by electricity. This knocks the neighbors out of the fun they used to have under the old system, of seeing the man who attempted to do the hiving make a grand burst of speed toward the mill pond, clawing wildly at his legs, leaping at times four feet into the air, and yelling like a Comanche Indian. Modern invention will yet knock all the fun out of life...
Than to know Stuart Mill from beginning...
Arrived at the sawmill his transcendental genius came into play. He had a burning, an overwhelming, desire to do something original. He proposed to cross the mill-pond on the logs, casually remarking that it was perfectly safe. His girl - well, she trusted in Diggles and went; so did a youth from Amherst (Diggles said he always went everywhere). The others prudently sat on the bank and waited. Every voice was hushed, every heart stopped beating, as hand-in-hand the dauntless three approached the margin of the deep black waters...