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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1905
Page
11
An unnamed narrator recalls a perilous 1857 India crisis when Harold and his sister faced mutiny. He rides at night to warn and rescue, killing a Muhammadan preacher and a butcher to clear a path to the fort. Harolds’ gratitude and a quiet farewell with Mrs Harold end with a bleak sense of personal loss.
Report describes crocodiles, lions and hippopotami menacing workers near the Cape to Cairo Railway at Victoria Falls. A crocodile killed two people before being slain by a rescue crew. a lion killed a woman and a number of cattle before being killed by whites who kept their word to pursue him. A young hippo was saved, and canoe riders face constant danger from crocodile and hippo encounters.
A British district officer confronts treachery and fear as a mutiny spreads south. He confronts a native hawker, asserts his authority, and urges the safe evacuation of his wife and sister in law before dawn. Mrs Harold’s calm courage stands out amid looming danger and political tension in India.
A bashful young woman dines with an elderly, somewhat deaf professor on Main Street. To break the ice she asks about bananas, prompting the professor to quip that he prefers the old fashioned night shirt, ending the exchange in light humor.
An Irishman leans over a jewelry store counter and asks for a top wedding ring. When told the ring is eighteen karats he snaps that onions are his concern, not the clerk’s business.
Charles Lamb heard a burglar in his home and, in his heavy hunting boots with a candle, confronted the thief stealing from the breakfast table. The intruder claimed hunger, and Lamb retorted with a quip about lamb before kicking him down cellar stairs.
A childlike verse recalls a mule following Mary to school and a teacher striking it with a ruler. The abrupt outcome is a claim that there was no school afterward.
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