This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.

His own fiscal conservatism, he says, is evident in the antistatus cars in the driveway.

[The carbines] disappeared mysteriously from locked arm-racks, and in the hot weather when all the barrack doors and windows were opened they vanished like puffs of their own smoke.

Fan Coops an' Carts were unco rare, / An' Creels, an' Corrocks boot to ſair. […]