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...point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious with their rifles before umpires could interfere. After that the umpires made a strict rule that opposing forces could not approach within 300 yards of each other...
Next Sergeant Jurney drove across the Potomac River to Alexandria, Va. to ask whether Mr. Hopson was staying at a small hotel there. He was not. Thereupon Sleuth Jurney good-naturedly treated his camp followers to beer and a fish supper, at a cost of $16 borrowed from a deputy on the understanding that it would be charged to their expense account...
...killed. Clay was about 16, a resourceful boy with a "mean-spoken sassiness that kept people from being pleasant to him even when they wanted to." He risked his neck to get the pistol to Wade, who, instead of being killed, bluffed his way out of jail. Thereupon Clay took to the woods for having aided a jailbreak...
...Thereupon the great man bowed, picked up his hat and, according to one witness, "quitted the room with a dignity so severe that every person seemed alarmed." Nobody ever claimed the paper...
...both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying the records, fired him. Thereupon Noble Puffer won the election...