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...pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows, one hog, a blind mare, and a sense of sad humor"; his grandson's a keen Irish sense of pathos, a true Irish gift...
...Kidder, Peabody & Co., Manhattan banking house, last week brought out the first stock issue of the new company. Authorized capital is $15,000,000 preferred, 750,000 shares of no par value common. Manhattan bankers recalled that Kidder, Peabody had backed the New England Cotton Yarn Co., first of large mergers of cotton textile mills...
...gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsyman-and all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves...
...that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...
...handlers at the sun-scorched railway stations dotted along the lines of the Northern Pacific shook hands with a rotund little man who climbed briskly down the steps of a private car. Many he knew by name, knew their histories and their troubles. He told them a good railroading yarn, climbed back into...