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...heroes whose exploits long ago became legend was General Ma Chan-shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their arms...
...from them and sit together in the smokehouse. "A big house draws kinfolks like a horse draws nitflies," said Mother. One rainy night Harl and Tibb had a long spell of snickering in the room where they slept with Uncle Samp. Next morning they left :arly. When Uncle Samp woke up, he roared and raged out of the house: what was left of his mustache stuck out "like two small grey horns." When he was gone, Mother got the children to move the beds, stove and furniture into the smaller smokehouse; then she set a match to the house...
Next thing he knew, he woke in a strange hospital room, dimly lit by a blacked-out bed lamp. He shouted for his wife. A doctor came to his side. "Your wife," said he, '"is dead." Horrified, Dr. Lockhart broke into convulsive sobs. At first he could remember nothing of the previous evening, but later, he dimly recalled his wife's body, "very cold and limp" in his arms...
...registration provision of the act, Manhattan's Stone & Webster, Inc. divested itself of utilities securities (by giving its holdings to its stockholders) and settled back to its own business of construction, management and investment banking. International Paper & Power Co., no banker but a potent holder of utilities stock, woke up one morning to find that it might become a holding company. It finally escaped by turning over its shares of International Hydro-Electric System, with SEC's approval, to a liquidating trust to be sold...
When they woke in the morning, they tiptoed into the kitchen, where Tony fixed cereal and milk for breakfast. He decided he had better stay home from school to take care of Judy. By the end of the long day he was wishing mightily that his mother would wake up. Judy and he had finished what little milk there was and all the cereal. When they climbed into bed that night they were pretty hungry...