text:
Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/244

 undertaking fresh legislation. Governments therefore break the laws and do what they please. Afterwards they either enact new laws or else make the people forget their breach of the law.

The Indians started a powerful agitation against this lawlessness of the local Government, which was adversely commented upon in India too so that the Government every day found it more and more difficult to deport poor Indians. The Indians took all possible legal steps and successfully appealed against the deportations, with the result that Government had to stop the practice of deporting to India.

But the policy of deportations was not without its effect upon the Satyagrahi ‘army.’ Not all could overcome the fear of being deported to India. Many more fell away, and only the real fighters remained. This was not the only step taken by the Government to break the spirit of the community. As I have stated in the last chapter, Government had done their utmost to harass the Satyagrahi prisoners, who were put to all manner of tasks including breaking stones. But that was not all. At first all prisoners were kept together. Now the Government adopted the policy of separating them, and accorded harsh treatment to them in every jail. Winter in the Transvaal is very severe; the cold is so bitter, that one’s hands are almost frozen while working in the morning. Winter therefore was a hard time for the prisoners, some of whom were kept in a road camp where no one could even go and see them. One of these prisoners was a young Satyagrahi eighteen years old of the name of Swami Nagappan, who observed the jail rules and did the task entrusted to him. Early in the mornings he was taken to work on the roads where he contracted double pneumonia of which he died after he was released (July 7, 1909). Nagappan’s companions say that he thought of the struggle and struggle alone till he breathed his last. He never repented of going to jail and embraced death for his country’s sake as he would embrace a friend. Nagappan was ‘illiterate’ according to our standards. He

title: Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/244


text:
Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/245

 spoke English and Zulu from experience. Perhaps he also wrote broken English, but he was by no means an educated man. Still if we consider his fortitude, his patience, his patriotism, his firmness unto death, there is nothing left which we might desire him to possess. The Satyagraha movement went on successfully though it was not joined by any highly educated men, but where would it have been without soldiers like Nagappan?

As Nagappan died of ill-treatment in jail, the hardships of deportation proved to be the death of Narayanaswami (October 16, 1910). Still the community stood unmoved; only weaklings slipped away. But even the weaklings had done their best. Let us not despise them. Those who march forward are generally apt to look down upon those who fall back and to consider themselves very brave fellows, whereas often the facts are just the reverse. If a man who can afford to contribute fifty rupees subscribes only twenty-five and if he who can afford to pay only five rupees contributes that amount in full he who gives five must be held to be a more generous donor than the other who gives five times as much. Yet very often he who contributes twenty-five is needlessly elated at the false notion of his superiority over the contributor of five rupees. In the same way, if a man who falls back through weakness has done his utmost, he is really superior to another who leaves him behind but has not put his whole soul into the march. Therefore even those, who slipped away when they found things too hot for them did render service to the community. A time now came when greater calls were made on our patience and courage. But the Transvaal Indians were not found wanting even so. The stalwarts who held to their posts were equal to the service required of them.

Thus day by day the trial grew more and more severe for the Indians. Government became more and more violent in proportion to the strength put forth bv the community. There are always special prisons where dangerous prisoners or prisoners whom Government wants to bend are kept, and so there were in the Transvaal. One

S.A.-15

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/245


text:
Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/246

 of these was the Diepkloof Convict Prison, where there was a harsh jailer, and where the labour exacted from prisoners was also hard. And yet there were Indians who successfully performed their allotted task. But though they were prepared to work, they would not put up with the insult offered to them by the jailer and therefore went on hunger strike. They solemnly declared that they would take no food until either the jailer was removed from the prison, or else they themselves were transferred to another prison. This was a perfectly legitimate strike. The strikers were quite honest and not likely to take food secretly. The reader must remember that there was not much room in the Transvaal for such public agitation as a case of this nature would evoke in India. Again jail regulations in the Transvaal were particularly drastic. Outsiders did not seek interviews with prisoners even on occasions of this nature. A Satyagrahi, when once he found himself in jail, had generally to shift for himself. The struggle was on behalf of the poor and was conducted as a poor men’s movement. And therefore the vow which these strikers took was fraught with great risk. However, they were firm and succeeded in getting themselves transferred to another prison after a seven days’ fast. As hunger strikes were a rarity in those days, these Satyagrahis are entitled to special credit as pioneers (November, 1910).

title: Page:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf/246


text: Template:Film multiplier/doc

title: Template:Film multiplier/doc


text: Template:Cartoon dialogue/doc

title: Template:Cartoon dialogue/doc


text: Template:Film exclamation/doc

title: Template:Film exclamation/doc


text:
Template:Film transclusion/styles.css

.wst-film-transclusion { margin-left:3em; margin-right:3em; }

title: Template:Film transclusion/styles.css


text: Template:Transcript collapsible

title: Template:Transcript collapsible


text:
Template:Transcript collapsible/styles.css

.wst-transcript-collapsible-title { text-align:center; font-size:58%; text-transform:uppercase; } .wst-transcript-collapsible-content { text-align:center; }


text: Template:Transcript collapsible/doc

title: Template:Transcript collapsible/doc


text: Template:Blackface/doc

title: Template:Blackface/doc


text:
Page:Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895.pdf/107

 JAN. 4, 5, 6, 7.

Team came home with timber. Moderate rain.

JAN. 8.

Sunday.

JAN. 9.

Trimming plates & rafters. A looking up horses & Lockyer's mare & Fan with foal (colt) 2 days old, L cooking as Taylor's hand is bad.

JAN. 10.

Finished rafters and put plates on building. 2 hrs rain.

JAN. 11.

The same.

JAN. 12.

Topping up chimney. Taylor & A away with team for timber. Messrs Taylor, Mount & parties here for night on way to Fortescue (River).

JAN. 13.

At work at chimney heavy rain made us leave off, p.m. it continued gently through the evening.

JAN. 14.

Same.

JAN. 15.

Sunday. went to station counted sheep.

JAN. 16.

Working at building.


text: User talk:Gem2024-PA5173G

title: User talk:Gem2024-PA5173G


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/28

 Bayes. Why, that's a Prince I make in love with Parthenope.

Smi. I thank you, Sir.

Cor. My Leiges, news from Volscius the Prince.

Ush. His news is welcome, whatsoe'er it be.

Smi. How, Sir, do you mean that? whether it be good or bad?

Bayes. Nay, pray, Sir, have a little patience: Godsookers you'l spoil all my Play. Why, Sir, 'tis impossible to answer every impertinent question you ask.

Smi. Cry you mercie, Sir.

Cor. His Highness Sirs, commanded me to tell you, That the fair person whom you both do know, Despairing of forgiveness for her fault, In a deep sorrow, twice she did attempt Upon her precious life; but, by the care Of standers-by, prevented was.

Smi. 'Sheart, what stuff's here!

Cor. At last, Volscius the great this dire resolve embrac'd: His servants he into the Country sent, And he himself to Piccadillè went. Where he's inform'd, by Letters, that she's dead.

Ush. Dead! is that possible? Dead!

Phys. O ye Gods!

Bayes. There's a smart expression of a passion; O ye Gods! That's one of my bold strokes, a gad.

Smi. Yes; but who is the fair person that's dead?

Bayes. That you shall know anon.

Smi. Nay, if we know it at all, 'tis well enough.

Bayes. Perhaps you may find too, by and by, for all this, that she's not dead neither.

Smi. Marry, that's good news: I am glad of that with all my heart.

Bayes. Now, here's the man brought in that is suppos'd to have kill'd her.


text: Template:Inaudible/doc

title: Template:Inaudible/doc


text:
Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/184

 purpose, is a great secret of success. Dr. Johnson has defined genius to be "a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction." Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them. It is not those who have enjoyed the advantages of colleges, museums, and public galleries that have accomplished the most for science and art; nor have the greatest mechanics and inventors been trained in mechanics' institutes. Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. Some of the very best workmen have had the most indifferent tools to work with. But it is not tools that make the workman, but the trained skill and perseverance of the man himself. Indeed it is proverbial that the bad workman never yet had a good tool. Some one asked Opie by what wonderful process he mixed his colours. "I mix them with my brains, sir," was his reply. It is the same with every workman who would excel. Ferguson made marvellous things—such as his wooden clock, that accurately measured the hours—by means of a common penknife, a tool in everybody's hand; but then everybody is not a Ferguson. A pan of water and two thermometers were the tools by which Dr. Black discovered latent heat; and a prism, a lens, and a sheet of pasteboard enabled Newton to unfold the composition of light and the origin of colours. An eminent foreign savant once called upon Dr. Wollaston, and requested to be shown over his laboratories in which science had been enriched


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/29

Ama. What shout Triumphant's that?

Sol. Shie maid, upon the River brink, near Twick'nam Town, the assassinate is tane.

Ama. Thanks to the Powers above, for this deliverance. I hope its slow beginning will portend A forward Exit to all future end.

Bayes. Pish, there you are out; to all future end? No, no; to all future end; you must lay the accent upon end, or else you lose the conceipt.

Johns. Indeed the alteration of that accent does a great deal, Mr. Bayes.

Bayes, O, all in all, Sir: they are these little things that mar, or set you off a Play.

Smi. I see you are very perfect in these matters.

Bayes. I, Sir; I have been long enough at it to know something.

Ama. Villain, what Monster did corrupt thy mind T'attaque the noblest soul of humane kind? Tell me who set thee on.

Fish. Prince Pretty-man.

Ama. To kill whom?

Fish. Prince Pretty-man.

Ama. What, did Prince Pretty-man hire you to kill Prince Pretty-man?

Fish. No; Prince Volscius.

Ama. To kill whom?

Fish. Prince Volscius.

Ama. What, did Prince Volscius hire you to kill Prince Volscius?

Fish. No; Prince Pretty-man.

Ama. So, drag him hence, Till torture of the Rack produce his sence.

Bayes. Mark how I make the horror of his guilt confound his intellects; for that's the design of this Scene.


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/8

vi


text: Template:Film song link table/doc

title: Template:Film song link table/doc


text: Template:Film song list/doc

title: Template:Film song list/doc


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/30

 Smi. I see, Sir, you have a several design for every Scene.

Bayes. I; that's my way of writing: and so I can dispatch you, Sir, a whole Play, before another man, I gad, can make an end of his Plot. So, now enter Prince Pretty-man in a rage. Where the Devil is he? Why Pretty-man? why when, I say? O fie, fie, fie, fie; all's marr'd, I vow to gad, quite marr'd. Phoo, pox! you are come too late, Sir: now you may go out again, if you please. I vow to gad Mr. a I would not give a button for my Play, now you have done this.

Pret. What, Sir?

Bayes. What, Sir? 'Slife, Sir, you should have come out in choler, rous upon the Stage, just as the other went off. Must a man be eternally telling you of these things?

Johns. Sure this must be some very notable matter that he's so angry at.

Smi. I am not of your opinion.

Bayes. Pish! come, let's hear your Part, Sir.

Pret. Bring in my Father, why d'ye keep him from me? Although a Fisherman, he is my Father, Was ever Son, yet, brought to this distress, To be, for being a Son, made fatherless? Oh, you just Gods, rob me not of a Father. The being of a Son take from me rather.

Smi. Well, Ned, what think you now?

Johns. A Devil, this is worst of all. Pray, Mr. Bayes, what's the meaning of this Scene?

Bayes. O, cry you mercie, Sir: I purtest I had forgot to tell you. Why, Sir, you must know, that, long before the beginning of this Play, this Prince was taken by a Fisherman.

Smi. How, Sir, taken Prisoner?

Bayes. Taken Prisoner! O Lord, what a question's there! did ever any man ask such a question? Taken Prisoner! Godsookers, he has put the Plot quite out of my head, with this damn'd question. What was I going to say?

Johns. Nay, the Lord knows: I cannot imagine.


text: Template:Film song link/doc

title: Template:Film song link/doc


text: Template:Film transcription link/doc

title: Template:Film transcription link/doc


text: Template:Film range/doc

title: Template:Film range/doc


text: Template:Film direct edit notice/doc

title: Template:Film direct edit notice/doc


text: German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)/Part One


text:
Module:Film song/doc

Supporting module for Module:Film, and implements
 * film song link
 * film song link table (unused)
 * film song list (unused)

title: Module:Film song/doc


text: German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)/Chapter 1


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/31

 Bayes. Stay, let me see; taken: O 'tis true. Why, Sir, as I was going to say, his Highness here, the Prince, was taken in a Cradle by a Fisherman, and brought up as his Child.

Smi. Indeed?

Bayes. Nay, pr'ythee hold thy peace. And so, Sir, this murder being committed by the River-side, the Fisherman, upon suspicion, was seiz'd; and thereupon the Prince grew angry.

Smi. So, so; now 'tis very plain.

Johns. But, Mr. Bayes, is not that some disparagement to a Prince, to pass for a Fishermans Son? Have a care of that, I pray.

Bayes. No, no, no; not at all; for 'tis but for a while: I shall fetch him off again, presently, you shall see.

Pret. By all the Gods, I'l set the world on fire Rather than let 'em ravish hence my Sire.

Thim. Brave Pretty-man, it is at length reveal'd, That he is not thy Sire who thee conceal'd.

Bayes. Lo' you now, there he's off again.

Johns. Admirably done i'faith.

Bayes. Ay, now the Plot thickens very much upon us.

Pret. What Oracle this darkness can evince? Sometimes a Fishers Son, sometimes a Prince. It is a secret, great as is the world; In which, I, like the soul, am toss'd and hurl'd. The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot. And, when she writ my name, she made a blot.

Bayes. There's a blust'ring verse for you now.

Smi. Yes, Sir; but pray, why is he so mightily troubled to find he is not a Fishermans Son?

Bayes. Phoo! that is not because he has a mind to be his Son, but for fear he should be thought to be nobodies Son at all.

Smi. I, that would trouble a man, indeed.


text: German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)/Chapter 2


text: German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)/Chapter 3


text:
Template:Film song/styles.css

.wst-film-song-link { text-align:right; padding-top:0; margin-right:0; font-size:83%; }

.wst-film-song-list { font-size:92%; margin:auto; float:right; } .wst-film-song-list th { text-align:center; }

title: Template:Film song/styles.css


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/32

 Bayes. So, let me see. Enter Prince Volscius, going out of Town.

Smi. I thought he had been gone to Piccadillé.

Bayes. Yes, he gave out so; but that was onely to cover his design.

Johns. What design?

Bayes. Why, to head the Army, that lies conceal'd for him in Knights-bridge.

Johns. I see here is a great deal of Plot, Mr. Bayes.

Bayes. Yes, now it begins to break; but we shall have a world of more business anon.

Ama. Sir, you are cruel, thus to leave the Town, And to retire to Country solitude.

Clo. We hop'd this Summer that we should at least Have held the honour of your company.

Bayes. Held the honour of your Company! prettily exprest! Held the honour of your company! Godsookers, these fellows will never take notice of any thing.

Johns. I assure you, Sir, I admire it extreamly; I don't know what he does.

Bayes. I, I, he's a little envious; but 'tis no great matter. Come.

Ama. Pray let us two this single boon obtain, That you will here with poor us still remain. Before your Horses come pronounce our fate, For then, alas, I fear 'twill be too late.

Bayes. Sad!

Vols. Harry, my Boots; for I'l go rage among My Blades encamp'd, and quit this Urban throng.

Smi. But pray, Mr. Bayes, is not this a little difficult, that you were saying e'en now, to keep an Army thus conceal'd in Knights-bridge.

Bayes. In Knights-bridge? stay.

Johns. No, not if the Inn-keepers be his friends.


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/22

I. Division and Dismemberment

To free German troops for employment in Operation BARBAROSSA and in compliance with commitments to Mussolini, the occupation of the Balkans was to be primarily a responsibility of the Italians. German interests in the area, as defined by Hitler, included only the security of supply routes and communications to German air bases in Greece and Crete, the safeguarding of the copper-producing area in northeastern Serbia, the protection of an open shipping route on the Danube, and retention of the economic privileges granted Germany by the former Yugoslav Government.

In addition to Albania, which they had held since 1939, the Italians assumed control of Greece, with the exception of German-held areas around Salonika and Athens, the island of Crete, and a number of the Aegean Islands. Another exception was western Thrace, which was annexed by the Bulgarians. (Map 2.)

In Yugoslavia, the Italians incorporated western Slovenia, including Ljubljana, into Italy, and annexed Dalmatia and Montenegro. A small portion of southwestern Serbia was detached and added to "Greater Albania." The Italians also dominated the newly proclaimed kingdom of Croatia, which for purposes of security and antiguerrilla operations was divided into German and Italian zones of interest by a line along the axis Visegrad–Sarajevo–Banja Luka–north to the border of the German-annexed portion of Slovenia; the Germans were permitted to send troops into the area east of this line and the Italian troops could operate west of the line. For their part, the Germans incorporated into "Greater Germany" that portion of Slovenia that had once been part of the Austrian province of Carinthia, and occupied Serbia and the Banat. The Bulgarians annexed Yugoslav Macedonia and, in early 1942, occupied southeastern Serbia; the Hungarians annexed the Batchka and Baranya and a small portion of eastern Slovenia. (Map 3.)

'''II. The Italians'''

Three Italian armies and a total of 45 divisions had participated in the campaigns against Greece and Yugoslavia. The armies were the Second, Ninth, and Eleventh, all directly under the Commando 13


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/23

14


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/24

GERMAN ANTIGUERRILLA OPERATIONS IN THE BALKANS (1941–1944) Supremo (Supreme General Staff), under which they remained for the period of the occupation. By early August 1941 the army headquarters had been redesignated as area commands and the total number of divisions reduced to 32. The commander of the Italian Second Army became Armed Forces Commander, Slovenia and Dalmatia, with 8 divisions; the commanding general of the Ninth Army became Armed Forces Commander, Albania and Montenegro, with 12 divisions; the Eleventh Army commander became the Armed Forces Commander, Greece, with 11 divisions. One additional division was stationed in the Dodecanese Islands. A change in this organization was made when the Armed Forces Command, Albania and Montenegro, was divided between the Armed Forces Command, Albania, and the Military Command, Montenegro.

The policy of the Italian occupation authorities was wavering and irresolute, and the Italians accomplished little or nothing toward restoring the economy of the areas under their control. Commanders were slow to react to guerrilla forays, and the common soldier hoped for a state of mutual toleration with the population. This reluctance to act firmly, after their poor showing in the 1940–41 campaigns, earned the Italians the disdain of the Greeks and Yugoslavs and encouraged depredations. Harsh and arbitrary reprisals, when action was undertaken, further increased the resentment of the population toward the Italians. Individual punishment was often inflicted without trial, and on many occasions entire villages were burned to discourage disorders. From disdain, the attitude of the Greeks and Yugoslavs soon changed to one of hatred.

'''III. The Germans'''

The German Twelfth Army, which had driven the length of the Balkan Peninsula and conquered Greece, was assigned to the occupation of the German-held areas in the southeast, with headquarters near Athens, whence it moved on 27 October to Salonika. The commander of Twelfth Army, Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) Wilhelm List, also became Armed Forces Commander, Southeast, on 9 June 1941, thereafter functioning in a dual role. As Armed Forces Commander, Southeast, Field Marshal List was the supreme German military authority in the Balkans and was answerable directly to Hitler. His responsibilities in this capacity included the preparation and direction of a coordinated defense against attack, the suppression of internal unrest, and the conduct of relations with the Italian and other Axis military authorities in the area. Marshal List was further charged with the security of German supply routes through the


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/25

 16 Balkans and the military administration of the German-occupied areas. These last were three in number: Serbia proper; the Salonika region and the islands of Lemnos, Mytilene, Khios, and Skyros; and southern Greece, including the cities of Athens and Piraeus, and the islands of Crete, Cythera, and Melos. Serbia was placed under the Military Commander, Serbia, with headquarters at Belgrade; the Salonika area under the Military Commander, Salonika-Aegean, with headquarters at Salonika; and Athens and Piraeus under the Military Commander, Southern Greece, with headquarters at Athens. Since much of the German air effort in the eastern Mediterranean was directed from Athens, the headquarters of the Military Commander, Southern Greece, was staffed largely by the Air Force. The naval and air force headquarters in the Balkans were placed under control of Marshal List for operational purposes, as were the various liaison officers and military missions with the Italians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, and Croats.

At the time hostilities ended in April, Twelfth Army had under its control four corps headquarters and a total of twelve divisions, four of them armored. By 22 June, when Operation BARBAROSSA began, three of the corps headquarters, all the armored divisions, and all but 2 mountain and 1 infantry divisions had been redeployed. This redistribution of forces left Twelfth Army with the XVIII Corps, with headquarters near Athens, to which were attached the 5th and 6th Mountain Divisions, on Crete and near Athens, respectively; the 164th Infantry Division, in Salonika and Mountain on the Aegean Islands; and the 125th Infantry Regiment (Separate), in Salonika.

The gap created by the departed units was filled partially by the recently created LXV Corps Command, an area, rather than a tactical, headquarters stationed in Belgrade. To this headquarters were attached the 704th, 714th, and 717th Infantry Divisions, spread over Serbia proper, and the 718th Infantry Division, stationed in the German zone of interest in Croatia, with headquarters at Banja Luka. (Chart 1.) In contrast to the troops they replaced, more than one-half of the personnel of these divisions, particularly the platoon leaders and noncommissioned officers, were over age for infantry service. The combat experience of most of the company and higher commanders was limited to World War I, and the divisions lacked their full complement of motor vehicles and logistical services. Training had been interrupted by the assignment to occupation duty to the extent one division had only completed battalion exercises.

German strength in the Balkans remained at approximately this level until mid-September 1941, the only change being in mid-August, when the 6th Mountain Division left. The 713th Infantry Division,


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/33

 Bayes. His friends! Ay, Sir, his intimate acquaintance; or else, indeed, I grant it could not be.

Smi. Yes, faith, so it might be very easily.

Bayes. Nay, if I do not make all things easie, I gad, I'l give you leave to hang me. Now you would think that he is going out of Town; but you shall see how prettily I have contriv'd to stop him presently.

Smi. By my troth, Sir, you have so amaz'd me, I know not what to think.

Vols. Bless me! how frail are all my best resolves! How, in a moment, is my purpose chang'd! Too soon I thought my self secure from Love. Fair Madam, give me leave to ask her name Who does so gently rob me of my fame? For I should meet the Army out of Town, And, if I fail, must hazard my renown.

Par. My Mother, Sir, sells Ale by the Town-walls, And me her dear Parthenope she calls.

Vols. Can vulgar Vestments high-born beauty shrowd? Thou bring'st the Morning pictur'd in a Cloud.

Bayes. The Morning pictur'd in a Cloud! A, Gadsookers, what a conceipt is there!

Par. Give you good Ev'n, Sir.

Vols. O inauspicious Stars! that I was born To sudden love, and to more sudden scorn!

Ama. Cloris. How! Prince Volscius in love? Ha, ha, ha.

Smi. Sure, Mr. Bayes, we have lost some jest here, that they laugh at so.

Bayes. Why did you not observe? He first resolves to go out of Town, and then, as he is pulling on his Boots, falls in love. Ha, ha, ha.

Smi. O, I did not observe: that, indeed, is a very good jest.

Bayes. Here, now, you shall see a combat betwixt Love and Honour. And ancient Author has made a whole Play on't;


text:
Module:Blackface/doc

Logic for blackface; also used in Module:Film

title: Module:Blackface/doc


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/34

 but I have dispatch'd it all in his Scene.

Vols. How has my passion made me Cupid's scoff! This hasty Boot is on, the other off, And sullen lyes, with amorous design To quit loud fame, and make that Beauty mine. My Legs, the Emblem of my various thought, Shew to what sad distraction I am brought. Sometimes, with stubborn Honour, like this Boot, My mind is guarded, and resolv'd to do't: Sometimes, again, that very mind, by Love Disarmed, like this other Leg does prove.

Johns. What pains Mr. Bayes takes to act this speech himself!

Smi. I, the fool, I see, is mightily transported with it.

Vols. Shall I to Honour or to Love give way? Go on, cryes Honour; tender Love says, nay: Honour, aloud, commands, pluck both boots on; But softer Love does whisper, put on none. What shall I do? what conduct shall I find To lead me through this twy-light of my mind? For as bright Day with black approach of Night Contending, makes a doubtful puzzling light; So does my Honour and my Love together Puzzle me so, I can resolve for neither. Exit with one Boot on, and the other off.

Johns. By my troth, Sir, this is as difficult a Combat as ever I saw, and as equal; for 'tis determin'd on neither side.

Bayes. Ay, is't not, I gad, ha? For, to go off hip hop, hip hop, upon this occasion, is a thousand times better than any conclusion in the world, I gad. But, Sirs, you cannot make any judgement of this Play, because we are come but to the end of the second Act. Come, the Dance. Well, Gentlemen, you'l see this Dance, if I am not mistaken, take very well upon the Stage, when they are perfect in their motions, and all that.


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/26

 GERMAN ANTIGUERRILLA OPERATIONS IN THE BALKANS (1941–1944)

of the same type as the divisions attached to the LXV Corps Command, moved into the Balkans shortly before the departure of the mountain division.

The military occupation task was made difficult by the presence of various SS and police agencies in the occupied territories. Acting directly under the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police Himmler, these agencies were the cause of constant irritation to the military commanders. Ostensibly responsible for security, their activities overlapped those of the military, and local commanders were not permitted to control them or to restrict their activities. Various civilian agencies, such as the German Foreign Office, were also represented in Greece and Yugoslavia, further complicating the task of the military commanders.

The policy of the Germans was stern but consistent, compared to that of the Italians. Serbia presented the Germans with a special problem, however, with the traditional Serb hostility to everything Germanic, the rugged independence of the people, and the former position of predominance the Serbs had held in the Yugoslav state.

'''IV. The Bulgarians and Hungarians'''

To maintain order in their new territories, the Bulgarians dispatched their V Corps, composed of three divisions, to Yugoslav


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/35

 Smi. I don't know 'twill take, Sir; but I am sure you sweat hard for't.

Bayes. Ay, Sir, it costs me more pains, and trouble, to do these things, than almost the things are worth.

Smi. By my troth, I think so, Sir.

Bayes. Not for the things themselves, for I could write you, Sir, forty of 'em in a day; but, I gad, these Players are such dull persons, that, if a man be not by upon every point, and at every turn, I gad, they'l mistake you, Sir, and spoil all.

What, is the Funeral ready?

Play. Yes, Sir.

Bayes. And is the Lance fill'd with Wine?

Play. Sir, 'tis just now a doing.

Bayes. Stay then; I'l do it my self.

Smi. Come, let's go with him.

Bayes. A match. But, Mr. Johnson, I gad, I am not like other persons; they care not what becomes of their things, so they can but get money for 'em: now, I gad, when I write, if it be not just as it should be, in every circumstance, to every particular, I gad, I am not able to endure it, I am not my self, I'm out of my wits, and all that, I'm the strangest person in the whole world. For what care I for my money? I gad, I write for Fame and Reputation.


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/27

 18 Macedonia, and their I Corps to Thrace. A subsequent reassignment of units, with the movement of Bulgarian troops into the German zone in Yugoslavia, brought the I Corps to southeastern Serbia and a provisional "Aegean Corps" to Thrace. Later in the war, the Aegean Corps was relieved by the II Corps. A number of incidents involving the native population in Macedonia caused the Bulgarians to turn from a benevolent to a harsh policy of pacification. In Greece, where they felt they were recovering territory lost to the Greeks in the Second Balkan War of 1913, the policy of the Bulgarians was arbitrary and severe from the outset of the occupation.

The Hungarians occupied several small areas of Yugoslavia to the west and south of Hungary, and immediately incorporated them into their national state. Inhabited by large Hungarian minorities, these territories had formed part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, hence the Hungarian attitude toward the population was far more lenient than that of the other occupation forces in their respective zones.

V. The Puppet Governments

Puppet regimes were installed to lighten the administrative burden of the occupied areas and exploit the differences between the various Greek and Yugoslav national and political factions. Native police, security forces, and national armies were also organized to reduce the number of occupation troops required to keep order and protect the various new governments.

The collaborationist regime in Greece was organized under the premiership of General Tsolakoglou, who had surrendered the Army of Epirus to the Germans on 20 April 1941. Although this government formed police and security units and actively assisted the German and Italian occupiers, it did not organize armed forces on a national scale.

In Croatia a kingdom was organized under the nominal rule of the absentee Italian Duke of Spoleto, with actual authority vested in Ante Pavelitch, the Poglavnik (Prime Minister), who began his administration with a ruthless persecution of the Serbian minority within the borders of the new Croatian state.

Pavelitch, living in exile under Italian sponsorship, had been indirectly involved in the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseilles in 1934. Arriving in Croatia in the wake of the Germans in 1941 with fewer than a hundred of his Ustascha, a politico-military group similar to the Italian Blackshirts, Pavelitch quickly organized a political army of 15 battalions, and a Ustascha Guard of 1 infantry regiment and a cavalry squadron. Under the aegis of the Italian authorities, he also began the conscription of a national military force, which did not progress beyond eight mountain and light infantry


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/28

 GERMAN ANTIGUERRILLA OPERATIONS IN THE BALKANS (1941–1944) brigades and a railroad security brigade until late in the war, when these brigades were joined with the expanded Ustascha forces to form divisions. Croatian-German "Legion" units, such as the 369th, 373d, and 392d Infantry Divisions; two SS divisions, the 13th and 23d Mountain; and additional mountain brigades and separate battalions were recruited in Croatia by the Germans draining off much of the manpower that might have gone to the Croatian forces. More potential Croatian troops were siphoned off in labor drafts or by the police, or fled to join one or another of the guerrilla groups.

A Petain-like figure was found in Serbia in the person of General Neditch, a former chief of staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army. Within Serbia, in addition to the civil police, several militarized security forces were formed to keep order and lighten the German occupation task. The first of these was the Border Guard, 5,600 strong, including a German cadre of 600; the primary mission of this force was to control traffic across the Serbian frontier. In addition, to support the city and rural police should the need arise, the State Guard was organized, comprising five battalions with an authorized total strength of 3,560 men.

The Serbian Volunteer Battalions, later amalgamated into the Serbian Volunteer Corps, most closely approximated a national military force. Four and later five in number, these battalions, under the command of General Ljotitch, were scattered about the German-occupied area of Serbia. Their approximate total strength was 2,000.

Another force formed in 1941 within Serbia but not responsible to the Neditch Government was the Russian Guard Corps, under command of General Steifon. It had three regiments and a total strength of 4,000. Incorporated into the Wehrmacht, the corps was composed largely of anti-Soviet émigrés who had served in the armies of the Czar; many of the personnel were incapable of extended field service, and the Germans generally restricted them to such security duties as the protection of the vital Belgrade-Nish railroad line.


text:
Page:Robert M. Kennedy - German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) - CMH Pub 104-18 (1954).pdf/29

The political allegiances of the resistance movement had little influence on the military operations conducted by the occupying powers. Rather, everyone fighting against the occupation forces was considered a threat to their hold on the Balkans. True, the methods used and the ultimate objectives differed from one group to the other. However, as far as the Italians, Germans, and Bulgarians were concerned, all in arms against them were enemies, whether they wore the royal crest of a sovereign in exile, the hammer and sickle, or no insignia whatever.

I. Yugoslavia

Armed opposition on a significant scale received its start in Yugoslavia. However, any consideration of this movement would be incomplete without distinguishing between the Pan-Serb, monarchical group of the former Col. Draja Mihailovitch and the communist-led effort of Josip Broz, or Tito. It was the former that first came to the attention of the Allied world, at the time German domination of the Continent was almost complete and Soviet forces were retreating from western Russia.

Mihailovitch called his irregulars "Chetniks," from the title of a Serb nationalist organization that had resisted the Turks, fought well in World War I, and since existed as a reserve force to be called up when needed. Costa Pecanatch, the aging World War I leader, went over to the Neditch government at the outset of the occupation, leaving Mihailovitch with those remnants willing to resist the occupation forces and collaborationists. The Mihailovitch movement quickly gained momentum during the early summer of 1941, and liaison was established with the government-in-exile of King Peter. A short time later Mihailovitch was first named commander of the resistance forces within Yugoslavia, and then minister of defense of the royal government-in-exile.

Chetnik policy called for the organization of strong underground forces in Serbia for the day when they might rise in conjunction with Allied landings on the Balkan Peninsula. Mihailovitch, himself, had been appalled by the execution of some 35,000 Serb hostages for Chetnik activities in World War I, and was determined to avoid repeti- 20


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/1

 THE

The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672) - title page decoration.jpg

LONDON,

Printed for Thomas Dring, at the White-Lyon, next Chancery-lane end in Fleet-street. 1672.


text:
Template:Film/styles.css

.wst-film-container { /* font-size:0.9em; */ margin-left:2em; margin-top:2em; }

.wst-film-key { float:left; border:1px solid darkgray; padding:3px; background-color:white; color:#202122; empty-cells:show; } .wst-film-key th { text-align:center; font-weight:normal; } .wst-film-key th .key { font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:bold; } .wst-film-key th .info { font-size:83%; } .wst-film-key td:first-child { width:1.5em; } .wst-film-key .dialog { background-color:#d4e2db; color: #202122; } .wst-film-key .in_scene { background-color:#e2e2ff; color: #202122; } .wst-film-key .storyline { background-color:#faf9b2; color: #202122; }

.wst-film-file { text-align:center; margin:0 auto 0 auto; }

.wst-transcript-info { margin:3em 3em 0em 3em; font-style:italic; }

.wst-film-song-link { text-align:right; padding-top:0; margin-right:0; font-size:83%; }

.wst-film-song-list { font-size:92%; margin:auto; float:right; } .wst-film-song-list th { text-align:center; }

.wst-cast-and-crew { margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:40em; } .wst-cast-and-crew caption { background-color:#2a4b8d; border-color:#2a4b8d; color:white; padding:0.2em; } .wst-cast-and-crew caption .mw-collapsible-toggle { float:right; } .wst-cast-and-crew caption .mw-collapsible-toggle-default::before, .wst-cast-and-crew caption .mw-collapsible-toggle-default::after { color:white; } .wst-cast-and-crew caption .mw-collapsible-toggle-default .mw-collapsible-text { color:#8eace6; } .wst-cast-and-crew th { background-color:#eaf3ff; color: #202122; } .wst-cast-and-crew th[colspan="2"] { background-color:#36c; border-color:#36c; color:white; } .wst-cast-and-crew .footnote-text { font-size:83%; text-align:left; }

title: Template:Film/styles.css


text: Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/3


text:
Module:Film

require('strict')

local p = {}

local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs local error_message = require('Module:Error')['error'] -- local yesno = require('Module:Yesno')

function p._film(args) if not args[1] then return error_message({'Module:Film error: no file provided'}) end --[=[	local blackface_warning = '' if yesno(args.blackface or false) then blackface_warning = require('Module:Blackface').blackface end ]=]	local film_key = mw.html.create('table'):addClass('wst-film-key') film_key:wikitext(table.concat({ ' Key (info)  ', ' Dialogue  ', '  In scene  ', ' Storyline  ' }))	film_key = tostring(film_key) local wst_film_file = mw.html.create('div'):addClass('wst-film-file') wst_film_file:wikitext('') wst_film_file = tostring(wst_film_file) local transcript_info = mw.html.create('div'):addClass('wst-transcript-info') transcript_info:wikitext(' The following is a transcription of a film. The contents below represent text or spoken dialogue that are transcribed directly from the video of the film provided above. On certain screen sizes, each line is represented by a timestamp next to it which shows when the text appears on the video. For more information, see Help:Film.') transcript_info = tostring(transcript_info) local container = mw.html.create('div'):addClass('wst-film-container') container:wikitext(table.concat({ -- blackface_warning, film_key, wst_film_file, require('Module:Film song')._film_song_list({args['wikidata_id']}), require('Module:Cast and crew')._generateCastAndCrew({args['wikidata_id']}), transcript_info, tostring(mw.html.create('div'):css({clear = 'both'})), require('Module:Pre-Code film').check, args.category or '' }))	return tostring(container) end

function p.film(frame) return p._film(getArgs(frame)) end

return p

title: Module:Film


text:
Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/185

 by so many important discoveries, when the doctor took him into a little study, and, pointing to an old tea-tray on the table, containing a few watch-glasses, test papers, a small balance, and a blow-pipe, said, "There is all the laboratory that I have!"

Stothard learnt the art of combining colours by closely studying butterflies' wings: he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. Bewick first practised drawing on the cottage walls of his native village, which he covered with his sketches in chalk; and Benjamin West made his first brushes out of the cat's tail. Ferguson laid himself down in the fields at night in a blanket, and made a map of the heavenly bodies by means of a thread with small beads on it stretched between his eye and the stars. Franklin first robbed the thundercloud of its lightning by means of a kite made with two cross sticks and a silk handker-chief. Watt made his first model of the condensing steam-engine out of an old anatomist's syringe, used to inject the arteries previous to dissection. Gifford worked his first problems in mathematics, when a cobbler's apprentice, upon small scraps of leather, which he beat smooth for the purpose; whilst Rittenhouse, the astronomer, first calculated eclipses on his plough handle.

The most ordinary occasions will furnish a man with opportunities or suggestions for improvement, if he be but prompt to take advantage of them. Professor Lee was attracted to the study of Hebrew by finding a Bible in that tongue in a synagogue, while working as a


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/4

 Ayes. Johnson. Smith. Two Kings of Brentford. Prince Pretty-man. Prince Volscius. Gentleman Usher. Physician. Drawcansir. General. Lieutenant General. Cordelio. Tom Thimble. Fisherman. Sun. Thunder. Players. Souldiers. Two Heralds. Four Cardinals. Mayor. Judges. Serjeants at Arms.

Amaryllis. Cloris. Parthenope. Pallas. Lightning. Moon. Earth.


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/36

Entlemen, because I would not have any two things alike in this Play, the last Act beginning with a witty Scene of mirth, I make this to begin with a Funeral.

Smi. And is that all your reason for it, Mr. Bayes?

Bayes. No, Sir; I have a precedent for it too. A person of Honour, and a Scholar, brought in his Funeral just so: and he was one (let me tell you) that knew as well what belong'd to a Funeral, as any man in England, I gad.

Johns. Nay, if that be so, you are safe.

Bayes. I gad, but I have another device, a frolick, which I think yet better than all this; not for the Plot or Characters, (for, in my Heroick Plays, I make no difference, as to those matters) but for another contrivance.

Smi. What is that, I pray?

Bayes. Why, I have design'd a Conquest, that cannot possibly, I gad, be acted in less than a whole week: and I'l speak a bold word, it shall Drum, Trumpet, Shout and Battel, I gad, with any the most warlike Tragœdy we have, either ancient or modern.

Johns. I marry, Sir; there you say something.

Smi. And pray, Sir, how have you order'd this same frolick of yours?

Bayes. Faith, Sir, by the Rule or Romance. For example: they divide their things into three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or as many Tomes as they please: now, I would very fain know, what should hinder me, from doing the same with my things, if I please.


text:
Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/186

 common carpenter at the repairs of the benches. He became possessed with a desire to read the book in the original, and, buying a cheap second-hand copy of a Hebrew grammar, he set to work and learnt the language for himself. As Edmund Stone said to the Duke of Argyle, in answer to his grace's inquiry how he, a poor gardener's boy, had contrived to be able to read Newton's Principia in Latin, "One needs only to know the twenty-four letters of the alphabet in order to learn everything else that one wishes." Application and perseverance, and the diligent improvement of opportunities, will do the rest.

Sir Walter Scott found opportunities for self-improvement in every pursuit, and turned even accidents to account. Thus it was in the discharge of his functions as a writer's apprentice that he first visited the Highlands, and formed those friendships among the surviving heroes of 1745 which served to lay the foundation of a large class of his works. Later in life, when employed as quartermaster of the Edinburgh Light Cavalry, he was accidentally disabled by the kick of a horse, and confined for some time to his house; but Scott was a sworn enemy to idleness, and he forthwith set his mind to work. In three days he had composed the first canto of 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' which he shortly after finished,—his first great original work.

The attention of Dr. Priestley, the discoverer of so many gases, was accidentally drawn to the subject of chemistry through his living in the neighbourhood of a brewery. When visiting the place one day, he noted the peculiar appearances attending the extinction of lighted chips in the


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/37

 Johns. Nay, if you should not be Master of your own works, 'tis very hard.

Bayes. That is my sence. And therefore, Sir, whereas every one makes five Acts to one Play, what do me I, but make five Plays to one Plot: by which means the Auditors have every day a new thing.

Johns. Most admirably good, i'faith! and must certainly take, because it is not tedious.

Bayes. I, Sir, I know that, there's the main point. And then, upon Saturday, to make a close of all, (for I ever begin upon a Monday) I make you, Sir, a sixth Play, that sums up the whole matter to 'em, and all that, for fear they should have forgot it.

Johns. That consideration, Mr. Bayes, indeed, I think, will be very necessary.

Smi. And when comes in your share, pray Sir?

Bayes. The third week.

Johns. I vow, you'l get a world of money.

Bayes. Why, faith, a man must live: and if you don't, thus, pitch upon some new device, I gad, you'l never do it, for this Age (take it o' my word) is somewhat hard to please. There is one prettie odd passage, in the last of these Plays, which may be executed to several ways, wherein I'ld have your opinion, Gentlemen.

Johns. Well, what is't?

Bayes. Why, Sir, I make a Male person to be in Love with a Female.

Smi. Do you mean that, Mr. Bayes, for a new thing?

Bayes. Yes, Sir, as I have order'd it. You shall hear. He having passionately lov'd her through my five whole Plays, finding at last that she consents to his love, just after that his Mother had appear'd to him like a Ghost, he kills himself. That's one way. The other is, that she coming at last to love him, with as violent a passion as he lov'd her, she kills her self. Now my question is, which of these two persons should suffer upon this occasion?

Johns. By my troth, it is a very hard case to decide.


text:
Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/187

 gas floating over the fermented liquor. He was forty years old at the time, and knew nothing of chemistry. He consulted books to ascertain the cause, but they told him little, for as yet nothing was known on the subject. Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance. The curious results of his first experiments led to others, which in his hands shortly became the science of pneumatic chemistry. About the same time Scheele was obscurely working in the same direction in a remote Swedish village; and he discovered several new gases, with no more effective apparatus at his command than a few apothecaries' phials and pigs' bladders.

Sir Humphry Davy, when an apothecary's apprentice, performed his first experiments with instruments of the rudest description. He extemporized the greater part of them himself, out of the motley materials which chance threw in his way,—the pots and pans of the kitchen, and the phials and vessels of his master's surgery. It happened that a French ship was wrecked off the Land's End, and the surgeon escaped, bearing with him his case of instruments, amongst which was an old-fashioned glyster apparatus; this article he presented to Davy, with whom he had become acquainted. The apothecary's apprentice received it with great exultation, and forthwith employed it as a part of a pneumatic apparatus which he contrived, afterwards using it to perform the duties of an air-pump in one of his experiments on the nature and scources of heat.

In like manner Professor Faraday, Sir Humphry Davy's scientific successor, made his first experi-


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/38

 Bayes. The hardest in the world, I gad; and has puzzled this pate very much. What say you, Mr. Smith?

Smi. Why, truly, Mr. Bayes, if it might stand with your justice, I should now spare 'em both.

Bayes. I gad, and I think ha why then, I'l make him hinder her from killing her self. Ay, it shall be so. Come, come, bring in the Funeral.

Lay it down there: no, here, Sir. So, now speak.

K. Ush. Set down the Funeral Pile, and let our grief Receive, from its embraces, some relief.

K. Phys. Was't not unjust to ravish hence her breath, And, in life's stead, to leave us nought but death? The world discovers now its emptiness, And, by her loss, demonstrates we have less.

Bayes. Is not that good language now? is not that elevate? It's my non ultra, I gad. You must know they were both in love with her.

Smi. With her? with whom?

Bayes. Why, this is Lardella's Funeral.

Smi. Lardella! I, who is she?

Bayes. Why, Sir, the Sister of Drawcansir. A Ladie that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her winding-sheet.

K. Ush. Lardella, O Lardella, from above, Behold the Tragick issue of our Love. Pitie us, sinking under grief and pain, For thy being cast away upon the Main.

Bayes. Look you now, you see I told you true.

Smi. I, Sir, and I thank you for it, very kindly.

Bayes. Ay, I gad, but you will not have patience; honest Mr. a you will not have patience.

Johns. Pray, Mr. Bayes, who is that Drawcansir?

Bayes. Why, Sir, a fierce Hero, that frights his Mistriss, snubs up Kings, baffles Armies, and does what he will, without regard to good manners, justice or numbers.

Johns. A very prettie Character.


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/39

 Smi. But, Mr. Bayes, I thought your Heroes had ever been men of great humanity and justice.

Bayes. Yes, they have been so; but, for my part, I prefer that one quality of singly beating of whole Armies, above all your moral vertues put together, I gad. You shall see him come in presently. Zookers, why don't you read the papyr?

K. Phys. O, cry you mercie.

Bayes. Pish! nay you are such a fumbler. Come, I'l read it my self.

Stay, it's an ill hand, I must use my Spectacles. This, now, is a Copie of Verses, which I make Lardella compose, just as she is dying, with design to have it pin'd on her Coffin, and so read by one of the Usurpers, who is her Cousin.

Smi. A very shrewd design that, upon my word, Mr. Bayes.

Bayes. And what do you think I fancie her to make Love like, here, in the papyr?

Smi. Like a woman: what should she make Love like?

Bayes. O'my word you are out though, Sir; I gad you are.

Smi. What then? like a man?

Bayes. No, Sir; like a Humble Bee.

Smi. I confess, that I should not have fancy'd.

Bayes. It may be so, Sir. But it is, though, in order to the opinion of some of your ancient Philosophers, who held the transmigration of the soul.

Smi. Very fine.

Bayes. I'l read the Title. To my dear Couz, King Phys.

Smi. That's a little too familiar with a King, though, Sir, by your favour, for a Humble Bee.

Bayes. Mr. Smith, for other things, I grant your knowledge may be above me; but, as for Poetry, give me leave to say, I understand that better: it has been longer my practice; it has indeed, Sir.

Smi. Your servant, Sir.

Bayes. Pray mark it. Since death my earthly part will thus remove I'l come a Humble Bee to your chaste love.


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/40

 With silent wings I'll follow you, dear Couz; Or else, before you, in the Sun-beams buz. And when to Melancholy Groves you come, An Airy Ghost, you'l know me by my Hum; For sound, being Air, a Ghost does well become.

Smi. After a pause. Admirable!

Bayes. At night, into your bosom I will creep, And Buz but softly if you chance to sleep: Yet, in your Dreams, I will pass sweeping by, And then, both Hum and Buz before your eye.

Johns. By my troth, that's a very great promise.

Smi. Yes, and a most extraordinary comfort to boot.

Bayes. Your bed of Love, from dangers I will free; But most, from love of any future Bee. And when, with pitie, you heart-strings shall crack, With emptie arms I'l bear you on my back.

Smi. A pick-a-pack, a pick-a-pack.

Bayes. Ay, I gad, but is not that tuant now, ha? is it not tuant? Here's the end. Then, at your birth of immortality, Like any winged Archer, hence I'l fly, And teach you your first flutt'ring in the Sky.

Johns. O rare! it is the most natural, refin'd fancie this, that ever I heard, I'l swear.

Bayes. Yes, I think, for a dead person, it is a good enough way of making love: for being divested of her Terrestrial part, and all that, she is only capable of these little, pretty, amorous designs that are innocent, and yet passionate. Come, draw your swords.

K. Phys. Come sword, come sheath thy self within this brest, That only in Lardella's Tomb can rest.

K. Ush. Come, dagger, come, and penetrate this heart, Which cannot from Lardella's Love depart.

Pal. Hold, stop your murd'ring hands At Pallases commands:


text:
Module:Film/doc

Logic for film

title: Module:Film/doc


text:
Page:The Rehearsal - Villiers (1672).djvu/41

 For the supposed dead, O Kings, Forbear to act such deadly things. Lardella lives: I did but try If Princes for their Loves could dye. Such Cœlestial constancie Shall, by the Gods, rewarded be: And from these Funeral obsequies A Nuptial Banquet shall arise. [The Coffin opens, and a Banquet is discover'd.

Bayes. Now it's out. This is the very Funeral of the fair person which Volscius sent word was dead, and Pallas, you see, has turn'd it into a Banquet.

Johns. By my troth, now, that is new, and more than I expected.

Bayes. Yes, I knew this would please you: for the chief Art in Poetry is to elevate your expectation, and then bring you off some extraordinary way.

K. Ush. Resplendent Pallas, we in thee do find The fiercest Beauty, and a fiercer mind: And since to thee Lardella's life we owe, We'l supple Statues in thy Temple grow.

K. Phys. Well, since alive Lardella's found, Let, in full Boles, her health go round. [The two Usurpers take each of them a Bole in their hands.

K. Ush. But where's the Wine?

Pal. That shall be mine. Lo, from this conquering Lance, Does flow the purest wine of France: And, to appease your hunger, I Have, in my Helmet, brought a Pye: Lastly, to bear a part with these, Behold a Buckler made of Cheese.

K. Phys. What man is this that dares disturb our feast?

Draw. He that dares drink, and for that drink dares die, And, knowing this, dares yet drink on, am I.

Johns. That is as much as to say, that though he would ra-


text:
Page:Hans Brinker, Or, The Silver Skates- A Story of Life in Holland (IA hansbrinkerorsi00dodggoog).pdf/54

was startled at her children's emotion, glad, too, for it proved how loving and true they were.

Beautiful ladies, in princely homes, often smile suddenly and sweetly, gladdening the very air around them; but I doubt if their smile be more welcome in God's sight than that which sprang forth to cheer the roughly clad boy and girl in the humble cottage. Dame Brinker felt that she had been selfish. Blushing and brightening, she hastily wiped her eyes, and looked upon them as only a mother can.

"Hoity! Toity! pretty talk we're having, and Saint Nicholas Eve almost here! What wonder the yarn pricks my fingers! Come Gretel, take this cent, and while Hans is trading for the skates you can buy a waffle in the market-place.

"Let me stay home with you, mother," said Gretel, looking up with eyes that sparkled through their tears. "Hans will buy me the cake."

"As you will, child, and Hans—wait a moment. Three turns of the needle will finish this toe, and then you may have as good a pair of hose as ever were knitted (owning the yarn is a grain too sharp,) to sell to the hosier


text:
Page:Lorna Doone - a romance of Exmoor (IA lornadooneromanc691blac).pdf/111

 should lose his life. And then I said to myself, "Now surely she would value me more than a thousand loaches; and what she said must be quite true about the way out of this horrible place."

Therefore I began to search with the utmost care and diligence, although my teeth were chattering, and all my bones beginning to ache with the chilliness and the wetness. Before very long the moon appeared, over the edge of the mountain, and among the trees at the top of it, and then I espied rough steps, and rocky, made as if with a sledge-hammer, narrow, steep, and far asunder, scooped here and there in the side of the entrance, and then round a bulge of the cliff, like the marks upon a great brown loaf, where a hungry child has picked at it. And higher up, where the light of the moon shone broader upon the precipice, there seemed to be a rude broken track, like the shadow of a crooked stick thrown upon a house-wall.

Herein was small encouragement; and at first I was minded to lie down and die; but it seemed to come amiss to me. God has his time for all of us; but he seems to advertise us when he does not mean to do it. Moreover I saw a movement of lights at the head of the valley, as if lanterns were coming after me, and the nimbleness given thereon to my heels was in front of all meditation.

Straightway I set foot in the lowest stirrup (as I might almost call it), and clung to the rock with my nails, and worked to make a jump into the second


text:
Page:Lorna Doone - a romance of Exmoor (IA lornadooneromanc691blac).pdf/112

 stirrup. And I compassed that too, with the aid of my stick; although, to tell you the truth, I was not at that time of life so agile as boys of smaller frame are, for my size was growing beyond my years, and the muscles not keeping time with it, and the joints of my bones not closely hinged, with staring at one another. But the third step-hole was the hardest of all, and the rock swelled out on me over my breast, and there seemed to be no attempting it, until I espied a good stout rope hanging in a groove of shadow, and just managed to reach the end of it.

How I clomb up, and across the clearing, and found my way home through the Bagworthly forest, is more than I can remember now, for I took all the rest of it then as a dream, by reason of perfect weariness. And indeed it was quite beyond my hopes to tell so much as I have told; for at first beginning to set it down, it was all like a mist before me. Nevertheless some parts grew clearer, as one by one I remembered them, having taken a little soft cordial, because the memory frightens me.

For the toil of the water, and danger of labouring up the long cascade or rapids, and then the surprise of the fair young maid, and terror of the murderers, and desperation of getting away-all these are much to me even now, when I am a stout churchwarden, and sit by the side of my fire, after going through many far worse adventures, which I will tell, God willing. Only the labour of writing is such (especially so as to construe, and challenge a reader on parts of speech, and hope


text:
Page:The Reshaping of British Railways (Beeching Report).pdf/146

 After addition of collection and delivery costs, estimated direct costs per capacity ton are:—

Direct rail costs per capacity ton

Road costs per capacity ton

Margin in favour of rail

10-ton container

16-ton container

16-ton container

10-ton container

16-ton container

Miles

As will be seen, except for the 10-ton container moved 100 miles, Liner Train costs compare favourably with capacity ton costs for the largest road vehicles at present permitted.

Recognising that tonnage capacity cannot always be fully used and that some empty running may occur at times, both on road and rail, comparisons of 75 per cent. and 50 per cent. utilisations of rail capacity with 80 per cent. and 60 per cent. utilisations of road capacity, follow:—

75 per cent. Rail Utilisation v. 80 per cent. Road Utilisation

Miles

100

200

300

Margin in favour of rail per ton

Direct rail cost per ton

Road cost 16-ton vehicle per ton

10-ton container

16-ton container

10-ton

16-ton

S. d.

S. d.

S. d.

S. d.

S. d.

27 0 21 0 23 9 3 3 2 9

29 9 23 6 40 0 10 3 16 6

32 0 26 6 55 6 23 6 29 0

50 per cent. Rail Utilisation v. 60 per cent. Road Utilisation

100 40 6 31 6 31 9 8 9 + 3

200 44 6 35 6 53 6 9 0 18 0

300 48 0 39 6 74 0 26 0 34 6

Applying these figures to the expected build up of traffic, it is estimated that the following will be the financial results:—

Year

Tonnage m.

Receipts £m.

Direct costs £m.

Contributions to systems costs £m.

1965 4 7 9 -2

1966 12 21 21 ..

1968 30 51 42 +9

1973 39 67 49 18


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/100

92c. 43 SCHEDULE 1 1. Offences at common law of public nuisance.

2. Offences under section 8 of the Disorderly Houses Act 1751 (appearing to be keeper of bawdy house etc.).

3. Offences consisting in contravention of section 13 of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835 (administration by a person of an oath etc. touching matters in which he has no jurisdiction).

4. Offences under section 36 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861 (obstructing engines or carriages on railways).

5. Offences under the following provisions of the Offences against the Person Act 1861—
 * (a) section 16 (threats to kill) ;
 * (b) section 26 (not providing apprentices or servants with food etc.);
 * (c) section 34 (doing or omitting to do anything so as to endanger railway passengers);
 * (d) section 36 (assaulting a clergyman at a place of worship etc.);
 * (e) section 38 (assault with intent to resist apprehension);
 * (f) section 57 (bigamy).

6. Offences under section 20 of the Telegraph Act 1868 (disclosing or intercepting messages).

7. Offences under section 13 of the Debtors Act 1869 (transactions intended to defraud creditors).

8. Offences under section 5 of the Public Stores Act 1875 (obliteration of marks with intent to conceal).

9. Offences under section 12 of the Corn Returns Act 1882 (false returns).

10. Offences under section 22 of the Electric Lighting Act 1882 (injuring works with intent to cut off electricity supply).


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/101

Rh

11. Offences under section 3 of the Submarine Telegraph Act 1885 (damaging submarine cables).

12. Offences under section 13 of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1891 (offences in relation to dies and stamps).

13. Offences under section 8(2) of the Cremation Act 1902 (making false representations etc. with a view to procuring the burning of any human remains).

14. All offences under the Perjury Act 1911 except offences under—
 * (a) section 1 (perjury in judicial proceedings);
 * (b) section 3 (false statements etc. with reference to marriage);
 * (c) section 4 (false statements etc. as to births or deaths).

15. The following offences under the Forgery Act 1913—
 * (a) offences under paragraph (a) of section 2(2) (forgery of valuable security etc.) in relation to—
 * (i) any document being an accountable receipt, release, or discharge, or any receipt or other instrument evidencing the payment of money, or the delivery of any chattel personal; or
 * (ii) any document being an authority or request for the payment of money or for the delivery or transfer of goods and chattels, where the amount of money or the value of the goods or chattels does not exceed £1,000;
 * (b) offences under section 4 (forgery of documents in general) ; and
 * (c) offences under paragraph (a) of section 7 (demanding property on forged documents), where the amount of the money or the value of the property in respect of which the offence is committed does not exceed £1,000.

16. Offences under section 17 of the Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914 (trustee making preferential payments).

17. Offences under section 3(4) of the Checkweighing in Various Industries Act 1919 (false statements).

18. Offences under section 8(2) of the Census Act 1920 (disclosing census information).

19. Offences under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 (forgery of passports etc.).

20. Offences under section 11 of the Agricultural Credits Act 1928 (frauds by farmers).

21. Offences under the following provisions of the Coinage Offences Act 1936—
 * (a) section 4(1) (defacing coins);
 * (b) section 5(1) (uttering counterfeit coin);


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/102

94c. 43

 * (d) section 5(3) (possession of counterfeit gold or silver coin);
 * (e) section 5(4) (possession of counterfeit copper coin);
 * (f) section 5(6) (uttering coins etc. as gold or silver coins);
 * (g) section 7 (importing and exporting counterfeit coin);
 * (h) section 8 (making, possessing or selling medals resembling gold or silver coin).

22. Offences under the following provisions of the Post Office Act 1953—
 * (a) section 53 (unlawfully taking away or opening mail bag);
 * (b) section 55 (fraudulent retention of mail bag or postal packet);
 * (c) section 57 (stealing, embezzlement, destruction etc. by officer of Post Office of postal packet);
 * (d) section 58 (opening or delaying of postal packets by officers of the Post Office).

23. Offences under the following provisions of the Sexual Offences Act 1956—
 * (a) section 6 (unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 16):
 * (b) section 13 (indecency between men);
 * (c) section 26 (permitting a girl under 16 to use premises for sexual intercourse).

24. Offences under section 3(1) of the Shipping Contracts and Commercial Documents Act 1964 (offences), so far as it relates to the contravention of any directions given under that Act before 20th March 1980.

25. Offences under section 24B(7) of the Housing Subsidies Act 1967 (failure to notify lender that residence condition not fulfilled or ceased to be fulfilled).

26. The following offences under the Criminal Law Act 1967—
 * (a) offences under section 4(1) (assisting offenders); and
 * (b) offences under section 5(1) (concealing arrestable offences and giving false information),

where the offence to which they relate is triable either way.

27. Offences under section 4(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 (procuring others to commit homosexual acts).

28. All indictable offences under the Theft Act 1968 except:—
 * (a) robbery, aggravated burglary, blackmail and assault with intent to rob;
 * (b) burglary comprising the commission of, or an intention to commit, an offence which is triable only on indictment;
 * (c) burglary in a dwelling if any person in the dwelling was subjected to violence or the threat of violence.


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/103

Rh

29. Offences under the following provisions of the Criminal Damage Act 1971—
 * section 1(1) (destroying or damaging property);
 * section 1(1) and (3) (arson);
 * section 2 (threats to destroy or damage property);
 * section 3 (possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property).

30. Offences in relation to stamps issued for the purpose of national insurance under the provisions of any enactments as applied to those stamps.

31. Uttering any forged document the forgery of which is an offence listed in this Schedule.

32. Committing an indecent assault upon a person whether male or female.

33. Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of any offence listed in the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule except paragraph 26.

34. Attempting to commit an offence triable either way except an offence mentioned in paragraph 26 or 33 above.

35. Any offence consisting in the incitement to commit an offence triable either way except an offence mentioned in paragraph 33 or 34 above.


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/104

96c. 43 SCHEDULE 2

* 1971 c. 48.


text:
Index:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/styles.css

._ba2021_sched4 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; }

._ba2021_sched4 th:nth-child(n+2),

._ba2021_sched4 th { font-weight: normal; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched4 td { text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; vertical-align: top; }

._ba2021_sched3 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; }

._ba2021_sched3 th:nth-child(n+2),

._ba2021_sched3 th { font-weight: normal; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched3 td { padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; vertical-align: top; }

._ba2021_sched2 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 th:nth-child(n+2), ._ba2021_sched2 td:nth-child(n+2) { border-left: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 th { border-top: 1px solid black; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 td { text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; vertical-align: top; }


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/105

Rh SCHEDULE 3 1.—(1) A magistrates’ court may commit a corporation for trial by an order in writing empowering the prosecutor to prefer a bill of indictment in respect of the offence named in the order.

(2) An order under this paragraph shall not prohibit the inclusion in the bill of indictment of counts that under section 2 of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933 may be included in the bill in substitution for, or in addition to, counts charging the offence named in the order.

2. A representative may on behalf of a corporation—
 * (a) make a statement before examining justices in answer to the charge;
 * (b) consent to the corporation being tried summarily;
 * (c) enter a plea of guilty or not guilty on the trial by a magistrates’ court of an information.

3.—(1) Where a representative appears, any requirement of this Act that anything shall be done in the presence of the accused, or shall be read or said to the accused, shall be construed as a requirement that that thing shall be done in the presence of the representative or read or said to the representative.

(2) Where a representative does not appear, any such requirement, and any requirement that the consent of the accused shall be obtained for summary trial, shall not apply.

4.—(1) Notification or intimation for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) of section 12 above may be given on behalf of a corporation by a director or the secretary of the corporation; and those subsections shall apply in relation to a notification or intimation purporting to be so given as they apply to a notification or intimation purporting to be given by an individual accused.

(2) In this paragraph “director”, in relation to a corporation which is established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking and whose affairs are managed by the members thereof, means a member of that corporation.

5. The provisions of this Act relating to committal to the Crown Court for sentence shall not apply to a corporation.

6. Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule, the provisions of this Act relating to the inquiry into, and trial of, indictable offences shall apply to a corporation as they apply to an adult.

7. Where a corporation and an individual who has attained the age of 17 are jointly charged before a magistrates’ court with an offence triable either way, the court shall not try either of the accused summarily unless each of them consents to be so tried.


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/106

98c. 43

8. Subsection (6) of section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 shall apply to a representative for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies to a representative for the purposes of that section.   SCHEDULE 4 1. Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the periods set out in the second column of the following Table shall be the maximum periods applicable respectively to the amounts set out opposite thereto, being amounts due at the time the imprisonment is imposed. 2.—(1) Where the amount due at the time imprisonment is imposed is so much of a sum adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction as remains due after part payment, then, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the maximum period applicable to the amount shall be the period applicable to the whole sum reduced by such number of days as bears to the total number of days therein the same proportion as the part paid bears to the whole sum.

(2) In calculating the reduction required under sub-paragraph (1) above any fraction of a day shall be left out of account and the maximum period shall not be reduced to less than 5 days.

3. The maximum period applicable to a sum of any amount enforceable as a civil debt shall be 6 weeks.   SCHEDULE 5 1. A court which, on adjourning a case, makes an order under section 130(1) of this Act is not required at that time to fix the time and place at which the case is to be resumed but shall do so as soon as practicable after the order ceases to be in force.

2. Where an order under subsection (1) of section 130 of this Act is made in the course of proceedings which, for the purposes of section 8 of this Act, are committal proceedings, proceedings relating to the accused before the alternate court are also committal proceedings for those purposes.


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/107

Rh

3. A court making an order under subsection (1) of section 130 of this Act or remanding the accused under subsection (4) shall at once notify the court before which the accused is to be brought as to the terms of the order or remand.

4. A person to whom an order under section 130(1) of this Act applies shall, if released on bail, be bailed to appear before the court which made the order.

5. Section 130 of this Act and this Schedule have effect notwithstanding anything in sections 5, 10 or 18(4) of this Act.   SCHEDULE 6

FEES TO BE TAKEN BY CLERKS TO JUSTICES


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/108

100c. 43


text:
Page:Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.pdf/109

Rh

1. Any summons, warrant, notice or order issued, given or made under sections 83(1) or (2), 88, 89 or 136 of this Act, or section 104 of the General Rate Act 1967, or under any rule made for the purposes of those provisions.

2. Any criminal matter, but this paragraph shall not prevent the charging of a fee for supplying, for use in connection with a matter which is not a criminal matter, a copy of a document prepared for use in connection with a criminal matter.

1. Billiard licences under section 10 of the Gaming Act 1845.

2. The registration of music and dancing licences under section 51 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890.

3. Licences under the Cinematograph Act 1909.

4. Appeals from pilotage authority under section 28 of the Pilotage Act 1913.

5. Matters in respect of which fees are authorised to be charged by section 29 of the Licensing Act 1964. E


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 1

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 1


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/224

 tipstaff sat with his hat between his knees, whistling a tune, and looking out of the coach window.

Time performs wonders. By the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground. They stopped at length, and Mr. Pickwick alighted at the gate of the Fleet.

The tipstaff, looking over his shoulder to see that his charge was following close at his heels, preceded Mr. Pickwick into the prison; turning to the left, after they had entered, they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate: opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand: led at once into the interior of the prison.

Here they stopped, while the tipstaff delivered his papers; and here Mr. Pickwick was apprised that he would remain, until he had undergone the ceremony, known to the initiated as "sitting for your portrait."

"Sitting for my portrait!" said Mr. Pickwick.

"Having your likeness taken, sir," replied the stout turnkey. "We're capital hands at likenesses here. Take 'em in no time, and always exact. Walk in, sir, and make yourself at home."

Mr. Pickwick complied with the invitation, and sat himself down when Mr. Weller, who stationed himself at the back of the chair, whispered that the sitting was merely another term for undergoing an inspection by the different turnkeys, in order that they might know prisoners from visitors.

"Well, Sam," said Mr. Pickwick, "then I wish the artists would come. This is rather a public place."

"They vont be long, sir, I des-say," replied Sam. "There's a Dutch clock, sir."

"So I see," observed Mr. Pickwick.

"And a bird-cage, sir," says Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison. Ain't it, sir?"

As Mr. Weller made this philosophical remark, Mr. Pickwick was aware that his sitting had commenced. The stout turnkey having been relieved from the lock, sat down, and


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/223

 Weller imagined a habeas corpus to be, does not appear; for Perker, at that moment, walked up, and took Mr. Pickwick away.

The usual forms having been gone through, the body of Samuel Pickwick was soon afterwards confided to the custody of the tipstaff, to be by him taken to the Warden of the Fleet Prison, and there detained until the amount of the damages and costs in the action of Bardell against Pickwick was fully paid and satisfied.

"And that," said Mr. Pickwick, laughing, "will be a very long time. Sam, call another hackney-coach. Perker, my dear friend, good bye."

"I shall go with you, and see you safe there," said Perker.

"Indeed," replied Mr. Pickwick, "I would rather go without any other attendant than Sam. As soon as I get settled, I will write and let you know, and I shall expect you immediately. Until then, good bye."

As Mr. Pickwick said this, he got into the coach which had by this time arrived: followed by the tipstaff. Sam having stationed himself on the box, it rolled away.

"A most extraordinary man that!" said Perker, as he stopped to pull on his gloves.

"What a bankrupt he'd make, sir," observed Mr. Lowten, who was standing near. "How he would bother the commissioners! He'd set 'em at defiance if they talked of committing him, sir."

The attorney did not appear very much delighted with his clerk's professional estimate of Mr. Pickwick's character, for he walked away without deigning any reply.

The hackney-coach jolted along Fleet Street, as hackneycoaches usually do. The horses "went better," the driver said, when they had anything before them, (they must have gone at a most extraordinary pace when there was nothing,) and so the vehicle kept behind a cart; when the cart stopped, it stopped; and when the cart went on again, it did the same. Mr. Pickwick sat opposite the tipstaff; and the


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/222

 by the judge which gave rise to a few more scuffles; and all these things going on at the same time, occasioned as much bustle as the most active and excitable person could desire to behold. There were yet another class of persons—those who were waiting to attend summonses their employers had taken out, which it was optional to the attorney on the opposite side to attend or not—and whose business it was, from time to time, to cry out the opposite attorney's name; to make certain that he was not in attendance without their knowledge.

For example. Leaning against the wall, close beside the seat Mr. Pickwick had taken, was an office-lad of fourteen, with a tenor voice; near him, a common-law clerk with a bass one.

A clerk hurried in with a bundle of papers, and stared about him.

"Sniggle and Blink," cried the tenor.

"Porkin and Snob," growled the bass.

"Stumpy and Deacon," said the new comer.

Nobody answered; the next man who came in, was hailed by the whole three; and he in his turn shouted for another firm; and then somebody else roared in a loud voice for another; and so forth.

All this time, the man in the spectacles was hard at work, swearing the clerks: the oath being invariably administered, without any effort at punctuation, and usually in the following terms:

"Take the book in your right hand this is your name and hand-writing you swear that the contents of this your affidavit are true so help you God a shilling you must get change I haven't got it."

"Well, Sam," said Mr. Pickwick, "I suppose they are getting the habeas corpus ready."

"Yes," said Sam, "and I vish they'd bring out the have-his-carcase. It's wery unpleasant keepin' us vaitin' here. I'd ha' got half a dozen have-his-carcases ready, pack'd up and all, by this time."

What sort of cumbrous and unmanageable machine, Sam


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 2

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 2


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 3

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 3


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 4

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 4


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/386

 "At length the two strangers advanced a little, and the conversation began in earnest.

You don't know this is a private room; I suppose, fellow?" said the gentleman in sky-blue.

No, I do not, fellow,' rejoined my uncle. 'Only if this is a private room specially ordered for the occasion, I should think the public room must be a very comfortable one;' with this my uncle sat himself down in a high-backed chair, and took such an accurate measure of the gentleman, with his eyes, that Tiggin and Welps could have supplied him with printed calico for a suit, and not an inch too much or too little, from that estimate alone.

Quit this room,' said both the men together, grasping their swords. Eh?" said my uncle, not at all appearing to comprehend their meaning.

Quit the room, or you are a dead man,' said the ill-looking fellow with the large sword, drawing it at the same time and flourishing it in the air.

Down with him!' cried the gentleman in sky-blue, drawing his sword also, and falling back two or three yards. 'Down with him!' The lady gave a loud scream.aw out dud

"Now, my uncle was always remarkable for great boldness, and great presence of mind. All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slyly about, for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the swords were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney corner, an old basket-hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard. At one bound, my uncle caught it in his hand, drew it, flourished it gallantly above his head, called aloud to the lady to keep out of the way, hurled the chair at the man in sky-blue, and the scabbard at the man in plum-colour, and taking advantage of the confusion, fell upon them both, pell-mell.

"Gentlemen, there is an old story—none the worse for being true—regarding a fine young Irish gentleman, who


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/385

 out of the coach at once, with such violence that it rocked on the springs again.

Oh! You've thought better of it, have you?' said the guard when he saw my uncle standing on the ground.

"My uncle looked at the guard for a few seconds, in some doubt whether it wouldn't be better to wrench his blunderbuss from him, fire it in the face of the man with the big sword, knock the rest of the company over the head with the stock, snatch up the young lady, and go off in the smoke. On second thoughts, however, he abandoned this plan, as being a shade too melodramatic in the execution, and followed the two mysterious men, who, keeping the lady between them, were now entering an old house in front of which the coach had stopped. They turned into the passage, and my uncle followed.

"Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Well,' said my uncle, as he looked about him, 'A mail travelling at the rate of six miles and a half an hour, and stopping for an indefinite time at such a hole as this, is rather an irregular sort of proceeding, I fancy. This shall be made known. I'll write to the papers.'

"My uncle said this in a pretty loud voice, and in an open unreserved sort of manner, with the view of engaging the two strangers in conversation if he could. But, neither of them took any more notice of him than whispering to each other, and scowling at him as they did so. The lady was at the farther end of the room, and once she ventured to wave her hand, as if beseeching my uncle's assistance.


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 5

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 5


text: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 6

title: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980/Schedule 6


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/384

 more, and he resolved, come what come might, to see the end of it. He had a great admiration for bright eyes, and sweet faces, and pretty legs and feet; in short, he was fond of the whole sex. It runs in our family, gentlemen—so am I.

'Many were the devices which my uncle practised, to attract the lady's attention, or at all events, to engage the mysterious gentlemen in conversation. They were all in vain; the gentlemen wouldn't talk, and the lady didn't dare. He thrust his head out of the coach-window at intervals, and bawled out to know why they didn't go faster? But he called till he was hoarse; nobody paid the least attention to him. He leant back in the coach, and thought of the beautiful face, and the feet and legs. This answered better; it whiled away the time, and kept him from wondering where he was going, and how it was that he found himself in such an odd situation. Not that this would have worried him much, any way—he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person, was my uncle, gentlemen.

"All of a sudden the coach stopped. 'Hallo!' said my uncle, 'What's in the wind now?"

Alight here,' said the guard, letting down the steps.

Here!' cried my uncle.

Here,' rejoined the guard.

I'll do nothing of the sort,' said my uncle.

Very well, then stop where you are,' said the guard.

I will,' said my uncle.

Do,' said the guard.

The other passengers had regarded this colloquy with great attention, and, finding that my uncle was determined not to alight, the younger man squeezed past him, to hand the lady out. At this moment, the ill-looking man was inspecting the hole in the crown of his three-cornered hat. As the young lady brushed past, she dropped one of her gloves into my uncle's hand, and softly whispered, with her lips so close to his face that he felt her warm breath on his nose, the single word 'Help!' Gentlemen, my uncle leaped


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/383

 "As quickly as my uncle said the words, the guard appeared at the coach-window, with the gentleman's sword in his hand. He held up his lantern, and looked earnestly in my uncle's face, as he handed it in: when, by its light, my uncle saw, to his great surprise, that an immense crowd of mail-coach guards swarmed round the window, every one of whom had his eyes earnestly fixed upon him too. He had never seen such a sea of white faces, red bodies, and earnest eyes, in all his born days.

This is the strangest sort of thing I ever had anything to do with,' thought my uncle; allow me to return you your hat, sir.'

The ill-looking gentleman received his three-cornered hat in silence, looked at the hole in the middle with an inquiring air, and finally stuck it on the top of his wig with a solemnity the effect of which was a trifle impaired by his sneezing violently at the moment, and jerking it off again.

All right!' cried the guard with the lantern, mounting into his little seat behind. Away they went. My uncle peeped out of the coach-window as they emerged from the yard, and observed that the other mails, with coachmen, guards, horses, and passengers, complete, were driving round and round in circles, at a slow trot of about five miles an hour. My uncle burnt with indignation, gentlemen. As a commercial man, he felt that the mail bags were not to be trifled with, and he resolved to memorialise the Post-office on the subject, the very instant he reached London.

"At present, however, his thoughts were occupied with the young lady who sat in the farthest corner of the coach, with her face muffled closely in her hood; the gentleman with the sky-blue coat sitting opposite to her; the other man in the plum-coloured suit, by her side; and both watching her intently. If she so much as rustled the folds of her hood, he could hear the ill-looking man clap his hand upon his sword, and could tell by the other's breathing (it was so dark he couldn't see his face) that he was looking as big as if he were going to devour her at a mouthful. This roused my uncle more and


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/292

 would not forget to pay, he shook hands all round, in an engaging manner, and at length took himself off.

"My dear friends," said Mr. Pickwick, shaking hands alternately with Mr. Tupman, Mr. Winkle, and Mr. Snodgrass, who were the three visitors in question, "I am delighted to see you."

The triumvirate were much affected. Mr. Tupman shook his head deploringly; Mr. Snodgrass drew forth his handkerchief, with undisguised emotion; and Mr. Winkle retired to the window, and sniffed aloud.

"Mornin', gen'l'm'n," said Sam, entering at the moment with the shoes and gaiters. "Avay vith melincholly, as the little boy said ven his school-missis died. Velcome to the College, gen'l'm'n."

"This foolish fellow," said Mr. Pickwick, tapping Sam on the head as he knelt down to button up his master's gaiters: "This foolish fellow has got himself arrested, in order to be near me."

"What!" exclaimed the three friends.

"Yes, gen'l'm'n," said Sam, "I'm a—stand steady, sir, if you please—I'm a pris'ner, gen'l'm'n. Con-fined, as the lady said."

"A prisoner!" exclaimed Mr. Winkle, with unaccountable vehemence.

"Hallo, sir!" responded Sam, looking up. "Wot's the matter, sir?"

"I had hoped, Sam, thatnothing, nothing," said Mr. Winkle, precipitately.

There was something so very abrupt and unsettled in Mr. Winkle's manner, that Mr. Pickwick involuntarily looked at his two friends, for an explanation.

"We don't know," said Mr. Tupman, answering this mute appeal aloud. "He has been much excited for two days past, and his whole demeanour very unlike what it usually is. We feared there must be something the matter, but he resolutely denies it."


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/291

 clever! Damme, you can't help liking a man, when you see these traits about him. He's only one fault-that little failing I mentioned to you, you know."

As Mr. Smangle shook his head in a confidential and sympathising manner at this juncture, Mr. Pickwick felt that he was expected to say something, so he said "Ah!" and looked restlessly at the door.

"Ah!" echoed Mr. Smangle, with a long-drawn sigh. "He's delightful company, that man is, sir. I don't know better company anywhere; but he has that one drawback. If the ghost of his grandfather, sir, was to rise before him this minute, he'd ask him for the loan of his acceptance on an eighteenpenny stamp."

"Dear me!" exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.

"Yes," added Mr. Smangle; "and if he'd the power of raising him again, he would, in two months and three days from this time, to renew the bill!"

"Those are very remarkable traits," said Mr. Pickwick; "but I'm afraid that while we are talking here, my friends may be in a state of great perplexity at not finding me."

"I'll show 'em the way," said Smangle, making for the door. "Good day. I won't disturb you while they're here, you know. By-the-bye"

As Smangle pronounced the last three words, he stopped suddenly, re-closed the door which he had opened, and, walking softly back to Mr. Pickwick, stepped close up to him on tip-toe, and said in a very soft whisper:

"You couldn't make it convenient to lend me half-a-crown till the latter end of next week, could you?"

Mr. Pickwick could scarcely forbear smiling, but managing to preserve his gravity, he drew forth the coin, and placed it in Mr. Smangle's palım; upon which, that gentleman, with many nods and winks, implying profound mystery, disappeared in quest of the three strangers, with whom he presently returned; and having coughed thrice, and nodded as many times, as an assurance to Mr. Pickwick that he


text:
Page:Works of Charles Dickens, ed. Lang - Volume 2.djvu/290

 knocked the ashes out of his pipe, sighed, put it down, drew the bedclothes over his head, and went to sleep too.

Mr. Pickwick was sitting at breakfast, alone, next morning (Sam being busily engaged in the cobbler's room, polishing his master's shoes and brushing the black gaiters) when there came a knock at the door, which, before Mr. Pickwick could cry "Come in!" was followed by the appearance of a head of hair and a cotton-velvet cap, both of which articles of dress he had no difficulty in recognising as the personal property of Mr. Smangle.

"How are you?" said that worthy, accompanying the inquiry with a score or two of nods; "I say—do you expect anybody this morning? Three men—devilish gentlemanly fellows—have been asking after you down stairs, and knocking at every door on the Hall flight; for which they've been most infernally blown up by the collegians that had the trouble of opening 'em."

"Dear me! How very foolish of them," said Mr. Pickwick, rising. "Yes; I have no doubt they are some friends whom I rather expected to see, yesterday."

"Friends of yours!" exclaimed Smangle, seizing Mr. Pickwick by the hand. "Say no more. Curse me, they're friends of mine from this minute, and friends of Mivins's too. Infernal pleasant, gentlemanly, dog, Mivins's, isn't he?" said Smangle, with great feeling.

"I know so little of the gentleman," said Mr. Pickwick, hesitating, "that I"

"I know you do," interposed Smangle, clasping Mr. Pickwick by the shoulder. "You shall know him better. You'll be delighted with him. That man, sir," said Smangle, with a solemn countenance, "has comic powers that would do honour to Drury Lane Theatre."

"Has he indeed?" said Mr. Pickwick.

"Ah, by Jove he has!" replied Smangle. "Hear him come the four cats in the wheelbarrow—four distinct cats, sir, I pledge you my honour. Now you know that's infernal