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.

[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.

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

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