So, toward our myth's oblivion, / Darkling, and languid-lipped, we creep and grope / Sadlier than those who wept in Babylon […]

When the Japanese started their final drive on February 27 they met practically no opposition. March 3 they marched into Chengteh, the Jehol capital, without firing a shot.

The macaw was perched on Jim's shoulder.

The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made them over to him; that while they were in his possession, Soobba Shetty died, and the first and the second defendants succeeding to his (Soobba Shetty's) property, they further executed a document to him for hoons 4-8-12, on account of a balance against themselves of rice, &c., making a total mortgage on the slaves of hoons 7-3-12.