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MODERN TIMES.
THE AFFAIR OF THE EIGHTY THOUSAND TRUSSES OF HAY O Father Zeus, only save thou the sons of the Acheans from the darkness, and make clear sky and vouchsafe sight to our eyes, and then, so it be but light, slay us, since such is thy good pleasure.

(Iliad, xvii.

645 et seq.) I.GENERAL GREATAUK, DUKE OF SKULL A short time after the flight of the Emiral, a middle-class Jew called Pyrot, desirous of associating with the aristocracy and wishing to serve his country, entered the Penguin army.

The Minister of War, who at the time was Greatauk, Duke of Skull, could not endure him.