He wore a haughty stare, and high-collared silken doublet, With fur his under-petticoats were lined On his head a sealskin-cap, like a Persi-an satrap—That diamond brings my long lost stud to mind!
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He asked me How dye do?' and his look said ' Who are you?"
And I felt that I had no right to be there Tsaw he was Taotai by the tournure of his taotai, And hisring—solikemy own, Idodeclare 3
His French-grey satin trousers were bound ribbon green, (Iliad some, for despatches, justlikethat His gold buttons wore like sleeve-links, and his shoes were lined with fur, —Just the pattern of my stolen tabby-cat 4
The cigar he proffered me, from a case of Wasa Havana which [seemed torecogni:
His scented handkerchief bore initials in out on board the defendants' sou onto of it. 'The potash and cry Liverpool by,, or, by the order of, the The it ce dants' plaintiffs, and covered by one bill of Indi
Wag, OF ought to have.been, aware of the contents of packages. In the course of the voyage the soda crystals deliquesced, and the leakage roaulting therefrom caimsed. the damage to the. potash now. oned. for. 'The only question that 1 hare' to decide is whether or not the stevedore the means of knowing or reasonably 1 could or ought to have known" that soda crystals wore, liable to leak, on a voyage to Ghina.. Li he did know or ought to have known or ascertained this fact he should not have stawed the cask as he di said that ad he put the cask of crystals beside the packages of potash no harm would have resulted. The only witness examined at the hearing, Mr, Mann, a gentleman seemingly well acquainted with the articles in question, says that soda crystals always Jeak on a voyage out to China; and if this be the fact, as I muar assume it is, it seema to me pretty clear that the stevedore should either have been aware it or taken means to ascertain {tj and I do not think it was obligatory on the plaintiffs, under the circumstances, to give any special warning to the defendants or make any special request to them as to the stowage of the two classes of goods shipped by their order.
As the amount of damage has been practically agreed upon between the parties, I need only give judgment for the plaintiffs generally, with costa,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.