Show QUEER BITS OF HISTORY Victor Vietor lingo o was wa at th the time Ume of or his death ute the wealthiest t of or nineteenth tenth cen century et century tury authors authon In his b younger days however he knew the pangs of poverty as aa after aner a quarrel with his hl hi father Gen General General General eral Hugo he and his brother had their allowances allowan stopped topped We made toot last us for eighteen months On One Ono chop would serve for tor lunch three days in succession on the flat first Or t day we would eat Nit the lean on the second day the fat and on the third day we would suck the Ute bone We discovered a place In the Quartier Latin LaUn where for 1 Ili sons sous 15 iS 1 cents we obtained a e din dinner dinner ner a 8 bottle of or wine and as u much bread as a we liked For another sou we ob obtained obtained obtained the sweetest of ot smiles from the pretty girl who looked after us This regime does not appear ap to have nave spoiled polled limos Hugos H s digestion for at the age of 88 81 8 he lie cracked nuts Duta with ills i iii teeth and ate or 01 oranges oranges anges as some people eat apples peel and alL aIL Wrecks Wreck on the coast of Cornwall wore were w re onge a source of or revenue to the natives A writer says YB that in Inthe Ute the local dialect the folks on the coast their children to zay in their prayers night times time God bless Mess fa thern mother an zend a ship ta to shore yore voce The Cornish folk were great smugglers too Rev R n S Hawk Hawker er had in his service as a man of or all work old Tristram Tri tram Pen tire the last hist of the smugglers tI One day he made to the vicar this th notable bl confession conre elon Well sir I do think thin when I 1 come to look back and to consider con lder what lives we I used need ed to live drunk all night and idle abed abd all day cursing cur swearing weering fight fighting fightIng ing lag gambling lying and always pre prepared prepared prepared pared to shoot tho gauger I do really believe sir tr wo we surely sural was WM in sin Tossing Toe Ing in fn the blanket which hay ha hall been forbidden to certain British troops as II the sequel to a fatal tatal accident Is 18 a avery avery avery very old sport or punishment Blan Bian Blanketing keUng Ben Den Jonson Jonsen called it and in ha ii we find a denunciation of or Jesting Je blanketing and such auch other othor and dishonorable ex The French have a special verb rh homer bernor born or for It Ie borne bomo being the name given ghen to the sheet beet or blanket used Tho The verb berner bernet is also us used d for the Moorish punishment in which four men hold the victim by his ankles and wrists and send Bond him as high as they can presumably with no blanket to catch him Chicago News |