"The other occasion was when the Mexican outlaws crossed the American border and shot up a town, coming unexpectedly upon an
garrison, The outlaws fired the unsuspecti and insufficient town but one young girl stuck to her post in the telephone exchange a burning building, calling on the neighbouring towns for help. Tt was a sparsely settled district and the nearest large town was 36 miles away. When the telephone message came through, there was hesitation on the part of any one. In motor-cars the men of the town swept down to the border at Prom a Comnesroxoext breakneck specd. Farmers, clerks, hourers, old men and young boys, Lao Go's evening serenity was this car, and in this they were body that could find any kind disturbed by the sound correct. as I happen to know. of a weapon threw himself instantly quarrelling in the west courtyard, That they were competent is not Into the fight. Not one had tad hut he smoked on placidly, thinking open to question, but the discipline any experience ay a soldier, but it only a disturbance among the of the shop was bad and your they went all the same.... That daughters-in-law, until he recogniz-car was returned to you with a. was patriotian, And [realized ed the voices as those of his oldest) Rose nut that some workman, had that it is something that we Son and his favourite grandson. failed to tighten properly.
Some Chinese sally Tack, He Let his pipe go out, "listened days later it came loose entirely, quietly but intently and' after the} but you discovered time to "Send the bill for your now hubbub had led, like the wise prevent anything more serious mine to me," the old man added old man he is, went in softly to than the bending of a piston rod, amd remember that in the matter his bed, but not before his keen motor-cars we are still the ears had taken in the full details
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