Prisoners and Captives By H S Merriman Chapter VIII
Claud Tyars continues in London visiting a dockyard and a warm meeting with Peters the red faced sailor. Tyars selects a potential first mate for a strange vessel while Peters resists giving up a hopeful youth. Agnes Winter crosses paths at the dock gates ending the scene.
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Claud Tyars
Tottenham Court Road
St. Katherine's Dock
Tyara
London Dock
Tyars
Trontheim
Norway
North Water
China
Peters
Thad
Deters
London and
Agnes Winter
Tove
A Day at Aunt Clara's Farm and the Anthony Over Game
Bert and Phil visit Aunt Clara in the country where a long journey to Jimmy's house is described and the kids recall games from childhood. The tale transitions to a lively memory of playing Anthony Over, a shed ball game, with captains and scoring, shared by Aunt Clara and the visiting children.
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Bert
Phil
Clara
Boston
Aunt Clara
Helen
Ruth
Stoward
Anthony
Hidden Supper Time Trick Taught to Children
A pasted excerpt describes a family scene at supper with Aunt Clara and Clara and other children reacting to a trick. It then explains a sleight of hand illusion using cigarette paper to fake a torn piece transforming back to a whole ball while the performer talks and flourishes. The passage notes the trick can astonish friends and be performed anywhere.
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Aunt Clara
Little Clara
School for rattlesnakes shocks Monterey crowds
Dr. C. J. Foster tours Monterey Mexico with a trained rattlesnake colony and shares bold claims about venom, feeding, and senses. He asserts rattlers are cowardly and deaf except for earth vibrations and sight, runs a snake kindergarten, and says inoculation with gall makes him immune to bites.
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C. J. Foster
Monterey
Mexico
Philadelphia
Foster
Financially Speaking Buy a Title and a Quick European Marriage
Tom asks what to do with 50000 dollars. Jack jokes he would hire a boat for Europe and buy a noble title then return to wed a wealthy woman. The exchange highlights schemes and marriage as a joke about wealth.
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Tom
Jack
Europe
Insignificance Sparks Ruralville Insurance Chief Tiff
Miles queries Smawley about his status as Ruralville Insurance Company president. Giles replies the boss is upset for not being large enough to warrant an investigation, highlighting ego and local power dynamics.
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Miles
Smawley
Giles
Ruralville Insurance Company
He Proposes, She Hesitates Over Shared Work Life
He proposes a plan to work constantly to please her, but she counters that such effort would be excessive. She suggests a compromise where he works days while she handles nights, highlighting tension over duties and partnership.
Hix Diggs Gains Noted Literary Compliment
In a light exchange Biggs remarks on Hix Diggs resembling his great grandfather. Diggs notes the elder was dead when Hix was born. A lieutenant mentions a young lady mistaking him for the poem’s author. Tales Tea traces back to ancient China 2,700 years before Christ.
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Diggs
Biggs
Hix
China
Deadly Galeodes Spiders Terrorize Indian Regions
Parts of India are described as deserts where giant galeodes spiders cause severe pain bite head aches fainting fits and temporary paralysis. Camels and sheep suffer fatal bites and wasps or bees can be trapped in webs, leading to fatal confrontations between spider and prey in deadly fights.
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India
Young Poet Agnes Delivers Bitter Birthday Verse
The 12 year old poetess Agnes writes a quatrain thanking her stepmother for kindness and love while hoping God rewards her by taking her above. The stepmother wonders if the prayer implies early death, highlighting a dark domestic joke in a New York Press item. The piece ends with wry observation about railway life and burdens.
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Agnes
New York Press
Wit of the Youngsters and School Tales
A collection of child dialogue and classroom glimpses, from a Sunday school scene to a school inspector’s notes. Amusing exchanges include a nurse and dead bird moment, a comic misreading about hydrogen, and a student’s odd cure for a cold.
Fifty Cent Man at Nassau Street Cafe
A dignified elderly patron known as the fifty cent man visits a Nassau Street restaurant daily at 1 PM ordering a simple meal. He tips only a half dollar, even when his bill approaches 80 cents, causing wait staff to groan at the persistent modest spending. Also notes a tidbit on the origin of the name Canada and a brief joke exchange about the Gaileys in Newport and Bermuda.
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Livingstone
Tyars
Oswin
Miss Winter
Salter
Muggins
Helen
Hearthiug
Tie
Yars
Agnes Winter
Admiral Grace
I'yars
Wilbert Tyars
Mrs Winter
Claud Tyars
Nassau Street
New York Press
A Pointer for Percy and Nell Percious Exchange
Nell Percy Vere says she still hopes for luck to win you while Belle Well cautions Percy that luck alone won t win her as she compares love to a raffle. Philadelphia Ledger notes gas used in pulling teeth and popping the question in a lighthearted aside.
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Nell
Percy Vere
Belle
Percy
Philadelphia Ledger
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H. S. Merriman
Oswin Grace
Mr. Winter
Old Salter
Jimmy
Heredity
Hixs
Smag
Daniel
Johnnie
Willie
Margie
Willam Brookfield
Canada
Gaspar Cortereal
Great
St. Lawrence
India Sena
Newport
Bermuda
Philadelphia Press
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