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John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. From boudoir to quarterdeck, John Paul Jones was a storybook figure, and no one has told the story better than able Sea Scribe Morison...
...Behold! bad and unwholesome Butter is served out to us daily, now therefore let us depute Asa, the Scribe, to go unto our rulers to seek Redress...
...Then rose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher (Hancock) the Ruler & said, behold our Butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
Time-Defying Leap. Next, the fragments are sorted according to script and (if possible) scribe. The mutations of Hebrew and Aramaic letters are classifiable by date-this science of paleography is, in fact, the most exact way of dating the scrolls. Each scribe, too, had his own characteristic handwriting ("ductus"), and a shred of personality makes a time-defying leap across the centuries when a scroll scholar recognizes the mannerisms of an Essene scribe who worked at a long table not unlike his own, 20 miles away and 2,000 years ago. In addition to matching up the script...
...That is how it should be," said the lion. "Enter the decision," he called to the scribe, the most learned marabou. "Put down that it was found, after a discussion and thorough screening, that the special branch for the handling of complaints has proved uncommonly successful. Do your ranks need reinforcement...