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# The Big Bow Mystery/Note

p. ix.

### NOTE.

The Mystery which the author will always associate with this story is how he got through the task of writing it. It was written in a fortnight—day by day—to meet a sudden demand from the "Star," which made "a new departure" with it.
The said fortnight was further disturbed by an extraordinary combined attack of other troubles and tasks. This is no excuse for the shortcomings of the book, as it was always open to the writer to revise or suppress it. The latter function may safely be left to the public, while if the work stands—almost to a letter—as it appeared in the "Star," it is because the author cannot tell a story more than once.
The introduction of Mr. Gladstone into a fictitious scene is defended on the ground that he is largely mythical.
I. Z.
# The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/The Merchant and the Thieves

Second-level story, contained in King Jelyaad of Hind and His Vizier Shimas
THE MERCHANT AND THE THIEVES.
There was once a wealthy merchant, who set out for a certain city with merchandise, purposing to sell it there, and when he came thither, he hired a lodging there and took up his abode therein. Now certain thieves saw him, who were wont to lie in wait for merchants, that they might steal their goods; so they went to his house and cast about to enter in, but could find no way thereto, and their captain said, “I will accomplish you his affair.” Then he went away and donning a physician’s habit, threw over his shoulder a bag containing medicines, with which he set out, crying, “Who lacks a doctor?” and fared on till he came to the merchant’s lodging and saw him sitting eating the morning meal. So he said to him, “Dost thou want a physician?” “Not I,” answered the merchant; “but sit and eat with me.” So the thief sat down over against him and began to eat.
​Now this merchant was a great eater; and the thief, seeing this, said to himself, “I have found my opportunity.” So he turned to his host and said to him, “It behoveth me to give thee an admonition; and after thy kindness to me, I cannot hide it from thee. I see thee to be a great eater and the cause of this is a disorder in thy stomach; so hasten to take order for thy cure, or thine affair will end in perdition.” Quoth the merchant, “My body is sound and my stomach quick of digestion, and though I be a hearty eater, yet is there no disease in me, to God be the praise and the thanks!” “It may so appear unto thee,” rejoined the thief; “but I know thou hast a latent disorder in thy vitals and if thou hearken to me, thou wilt medicine thyself.” “And where shall I find him who knoweth my remedy?” asked the merchant. “God is the Healer,” answered the robber; “but a physician like myself tendeth the sick to the best of his power.” And the other said, “Show me my remedy and give me thereof.” So he gave him a powder, wherein was great plenty of aloes, saying, “Use this to-night.”
When the night came, the merchant tasted the powder and found it nauseous of taste; nevertheless he misdoubted not of it, but swallowed it all and found ease therefrom that night. Next night the thief brought him another powder, wherein was yet more aloes, and he took it. It purged him that night, but he bore with this and rejected it not. When the thief saw that he gave ear unto his word and put trust in him, he brought him a deadly drug and gave it to him. The merchant swallowed it and no sooner had he done this than that which was in his belly fell down and his guts were rent in sunder, and by the morrow he was a dead man; whereupon the thieves came and took all that belonged to him.
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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odevaere, Josephus Dionysius

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​ODEVAERE, Josephus Dionysius, a Flemish painter, born in Bruges, Oct. 2, 1778, died in Brussels in February, 1830. He studied painting in Bruges and in Paris, and in 1804 obtained the great prize of the French academy of painting for a picture of the death of Phocion. A pension from the same institution enabled him to study in Rome from 1805 to 1812, and in 1814 he settled in Brussels. Among his paintings are the “Peace of Utrecht” (1814) and the “Battle of Waterloo” (1817).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odin

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​ ODIN, the principal god of Scandinavian mythology. He is said to dwell in Asgard, with the twelve Æsir, many of whom are his children. He rules the heavens; the clouds and the wind are subject to him. Frigga, his favorite goddess, controls nature, and Freyja, who is also sometimes represented as his spouse, is the custodian of the dead. Saga, the goddess of poetry, is Odin's offspring. Being the god of storm, Odin is also the god of war, and directs the course of battles by the Valkyries, virgin goddesses, who take the slain to Valhalla to lead an immortal life of joy and festivity in the company of Odin. As the father of poetry he rewards the real poets with a draught from the wine Odroehris. He is the inventor of runic writing. Odin is also an omniscient god, and the ravens Herginn and Muninn, generally perched on his shoulders, are sent out in all directions to inform him of passing events. He was worshipped by all the North Germanic races, and he reappears among the Saxons and Low Germans by the name of Wuotan and Wotan. (See Mythology.)—The Odin of mythology is considered to be connected with Odin the conqueror, who ruled, according to tradition, in the time of Pompey over a portion of Scythia, near the Black sea. Driven out of his territory, he is said to have advanced to the northernmost countries of Europe and Asia, and to have conquered Denmark and the Scandinavian peninsula.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odometer

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​ ODOMETER (Gr. ὁδός, a road, and μέτρον, a measure), an instrument for determining the distances passed over in travelling, also known as pedometer, perambulator, &c. Odometers attached to the wheels of carriages were employed by the ancient Romans. This kind of odometer records by a mechanical contrivance the number of revolutions of a wheel in passing from one place to another. The odometer carried by pedestrians, and designed for recording the number of steps, is generally called a pedometer. It resembles a watch in size and shape, and may be worn in the vest pocket. Its machinery is so constructed that by the rising and sinking of the body with each step a lever is made to vibrate, which moves the index hand connected with it.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Ohio (county)

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OHIO. I. A N. W. county of West Virginia, bounded E. by Pennsylvania and W. by the Ohio river, and drained by Wheeling and other small creeks; area, 140 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 28,831, of whom 444 were colored. Its surface is hilly and the soil fertile, especially along the Ohio. Most of the land is well adapted to pasturage. Mines of bituminous coal among the hills are extensively worked. It is intersected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 42,276 bushels of wheat, 225,465 of Indian corn, 97,372 of oats,
26,967 of barley, 46,748 of potatoes, 120,135 lbs. of butter, 175,124 of wool, and 8,389 tons of hay. There were 1,637 horses, 1,585 milch cows, 1,493 other cattle, 47,201 sheep, and 4,153 swine; 23 manufactories of iron in various forms, and many other manufacturing establishments, chiefly at the capital, Wheeling. II. A W. county of Kentucky, bounded S. by Green river, which is here navigable by steamboats, and intersected by Rough creek; area, about 500 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 15,561, of whom 1,393 were colored. It has an undulating surface and a fertile soil, and contains iron ore and coal. The Elizabeth and Paducah railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 40,321 bushels of wheat, 577,371 of Indian corn, 96,268 of oats, 28,033 of Irish and 16,870 of sweet potatoes, 177,229 lbs. of butter, 42,567 of wool, 3,392,633 of tobacco, and 3,564 tons of hay. There were 5,325 horses, 3,801 milch cows, 6,329 other cattle, 21,308 sheep, and 30,646 swine. Capital, Hartford. III. A S. E. county of Indiana, bounded E. by the Ohio river, which separates it from Kentucky, and N. W. by Laughery creek; area, about 90 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 5,837. The surface rises in some places into high hills, but in very few places is it too much broken for cultivation. The soil, resting mainly on blue limestone, is fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 61,833 bushels of wheat, 12,231 of rye, 221,565 of Indian corn, 10,224 of oats, 13,581 of barley, 89,379 of potatoes, and 6,489 tons of hay. There were 1,234 horses, 1,150 milch cows, 1,286 other cattle, 2,742 sheep, and 4,342 swine. Capital, Rising Sun.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Ohm, Georg Simon

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OHM. I. Georg Simon, a German physicist, born in Erlangen, March 16, 1787, died in Munich, July 7, 1854. He was the son of a locksmith, and in his boyhood worked in his father's shop. He studied at Erlangen, taught mathematics in various places, and in 1817 was appointed professor in the Jesuit college in Cologne. In 1818 he published a work on the elements of geometry. He devoted himself particularly to the investigation of the laws governing galvanic currents, and by a combination of mathematical and experimental investigation, carried on for many years, he at length discovered and established the law which forms the basis of the mathematical theory of electricity. (See Galvanism.) His discoveries were first announced in 1825-'6 in scientific journals, and more completely in his Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (Berlin, 1827; translated into English in Taylor's “Scientific Memoirs,” vol. xi., London, 1841). The fundamental theorem of his doctrine is known as “Ohm's law.” In 1826 he resigned his professorship, and was director of the polytechnic school in Nuremberg from 1833 to 1849, when he was appointed professor of physics at Munich. In 1841 the royal society of London conferred upon him the Copley medal. He also published Elemente der analytischen Geometrie (Nuremberg, 1849), Grundzüge der Physik (1854), and other works. II. Martin, a German mathematician, brother of the preceding, born in Erlangen, May 6, 1792, died in Berlin, April 1, 1872. He studied at the university of Berlin, and in 1817 was
appointed professor of mathematics and physics in the gymnasium at Thorn. In 1821 he removed to Berlin, and in 1839 became a full professor in the university. He delivered courses of lectures at the academy of architecture from 1824 to 1831, and at the schools of artillery and engineering from 1833 to 1852; and he also taught in the military school from 1826 to 1849. He published Versuch eines vollkommen consequenten Systems der Mathematik (9 vols., Nuremberg, 1822-'52); Lehrbuch der Mechanik (3 vols., Berlin, 1836-'8); Geist der mathematischen Analysis (2 parts, 1842-'5; the first part translated into English by A. J. Ellis, London, 1843); and Die Dreieinigkeit der Kraft (Nuremberg, 1856).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Norwich (Norfolk)

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​ NORWICH, a city, capital of the county of Norfolk, England, on the Wensum river, 98 m. N. E. of London; pop. in 1871, 80,390. It is a place of great antiquity, was a flourishing town in the time of Edward the Confessor, and is still surrounded by fragments of its ancient walls, which were flanked with towers and entered by 12 gates. The streets are narrow and mostly unpaved, and the houses are built of brick with rude pointed gables; but the market place is one of the largest in the kingdom. The cathedral, founded in 1094, and chiefly of Norman architecture, is a cruciform structure, with a tower (restored in 1858) and spire rising from the intersection of the nave and transepts to the height of 315 ft. In 1872 there were 67 places of worship, of which 46 belonged to the church of England, 8 to the Baptists, 3 to the Congregationalists, 4 to the Primitive Methodists, and 2 each to the Wesleyans, United Methodists, and Roman Catholics. Norwich has been noted for its woollen fabrics since the reign of Henry I., when a colony of Flemings settled there, and obtained long wool spun in the village of Worstead, 9 m. distant, whence the produce took the name of worsted. The leading manufactures are shawls, crapes, bombazines, muslin de laine, damasks, camlets, gros de Naples, and bandanna handkerchiefs.
Norwich Cathedral.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odoacer

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​ ODOACER, king of Italy, put to death A. D. 493. He was the son of Edecon, a minister of Attila and chief of a tribe of Scyrri. Having led a roving life in Pannonia and Noricum, Odoacer went to Italy, entered the service of the western empire, and speedily rose to high command. After the abdication of Nepos and the elevation to the imperial throne of Romulus, called in derision Augustulus, the Heruli and other barbarian mercenaries demanded as a reward for their services a third part of the lands of Italy. When this was refused, the soldiers chose Odoacer for their leader, who drove Orestes, the father of Augustulus, to Pavia, stormed that city, and compelled Augustulus to abdicate (476). Odoacer made Ravenna his capital, and, though styled king of Italy, never assumed the purple, and had no coins struck in his name. But he ruled the country mildly, enforced the laws, and protected the frontiers from the barbarians of Gaul and Germany. Although an Arian, he did not molest the church. He ceded the Roman possessions beyond the Alps to Euric, king of the Visigoths, subdued Dalmatia, and defeated and captured Fava, king of the Rugians, in Noricum. At length Theodoric, leader of the Ostrogoths, descended from the Julian Alps, and defeated him near Aquileia and at Verona, and defeated another army encamped on the banks of the Adige. Odoacer retired to Ravenna, and for three years held out against his rival, but finally capitulated on condition of ruling with equal authority with Theodoric over Italy. Only a few days had passed when Odoacer was killed by the order of his associate, and his troops were massacred.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Odilon Barrot

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​ ODILON BARROT. See Barrot.
# The Boys' Life of Mark Twain/Chapter 35

XXXV
beginning "tom sawyer"
IT was at the end of January, 1874, when Mark Twain returned to America. His reception abroad had increased his prestige at home. Howells and Aldrich came over from Boston to tell him what a great man he had become—to renew those Boston days of three years before—to talk and talk of all the things between the earth and sky. And Twichell came in, of course, and Warner, and no one took account of time, or hurried, or worried about anything at all.
"We had two such days as the aging sun no longer shines on in his round," wrote Howells, long after, and he tells how he and Aldrich were so carried away with Clemens's success in subscription publication that on the way back to Boston they planned a book to sell in that way. It was to be called Twelve Memorable Murders, and they had made two or three fortunes from it by the time they reached Boston.
It is a cozy nest, and just room in it for a sofa, table, and three or four chairs, and when the storm sweeps down the remote valley and the lightning flashes behind the hills beyond, and the rain beats on the roof over my head, imagine the luxury of it!
I have been writing fifty pages of manuscript a day, on an average, for some time now, . . . and consequently have been so wrapped up in it and dead to everything else that I have fallen mighty short in letter-writing.
But the inspiration of Tom and Huck gave out when the tale was half finished, or perhaps it gave way to a new interest. News came one day that a writer in San Francisco, without permission, had dramatized The Gilded Age, and that it was being played by John T. Raymond, an actor of much power. Mark Twain had himself planned to dramatize the character of Colonel Sellers and had taken out dramatic copyright. He promptly stopped the California production, then wrote the dramatist a friendly letter, and presently bought the play of him, and set in to rewrite it. It proved a great success. Raymond played it for several years. Colonel Sellers on the stage became fully as popular as in the book, and very profitable indeed.
# The Boys' Life of Mark Twain/Chapter 36

XXXVI
the new home
THE new home in Hartford was ready that autumn—the beautiful house finished, or nearly finished, the handsome furnishings in place. It was a lovely spot. There were trees and grass—a green, shady slope that fell away to a quiet stream. The house itself, quite different from the most of the houses of that day, had many wings and balconies, and toward the back a great veranda that looked down the shaded slope. The kitchen was not at the back. As Mark Twain was unlike any other man that ever lived, so his house was not like other houses. When asked why he built the kitchen toward the street, he said:
"So the servants can see the circus go by without running into the front yard."
But this was probably his afterthought. The kitchen wing extended toward Farmington Avenue, but it was a harmonious detail of the general plan.
"Words cannot express Mrs. Clemens—her fineness, her delicate, wonderful tact." And again, "She was not only a beautiful soul, but a woman of singular intellectual power."
There were always visitors in the Clemens home. Above the mantel in the library was written: "The ornament of a house is the friends that frequent it" and the Clemens home never lacked of those ornaments, and they were of the world's best. No distinguished person came to America that did not pay a visit to Hartford and Mark Twain. Generally it was not merely a call, but a stay of days. The welcome was always genuine, the entertainment unstinted. George Warner, a close neighbor, once said:
​"The Clemens house was the only one I have ever known where there was never any preoccupation in the evenings and where visitors were always welcome. Clemens was the best kind of a host; his evenings after dinner were an unending flow of stories."
As for friends living near, they usually came and went at will, often without the ceremony of knocking or formal leave-taking. The two Warner families were among these, the home of Charles Dudley Warner being only a step away. Dr. and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe were also close neighbors, while the Twichell parsonage was not far. They were all like one great family, of which Mark Twain's home was the central gathering-place.
# The Cambridge Carol Book/Jesus is the sweetest Name

New Year's Day, Lady Day and August 7
XXXV. JESUS IS THE SWEETEST NAME
1.Jesus is the sweetest Name That heart can fancy, tongue can frame; Reveal'd to Mary in her cell At Nazareth by Gabriel; Whereto ev'ry knee, ev'ry knee, Shall bow in all humility.
2.On the eight day, when they came To give the heav'nly Child His Name, 'Let call Him Jesus,' Mary cried: 'Amen,' said Joseph at that tide; 'Because from thy yoke, from thy yoke, O sin, the Babe shall save His folk.'
​3.Jesus is the Name full well Bedreaded and abhorr'd in hell; But Jesus is the theme and boast Of Christian men and Angel host. So sing we and say, sing and say, 'All glory to Thy Name to-day!'
# The Cambridge Carol Book/Nightingale, thy lordly lays

XLVII. NIGHTINGALE, THY LORDLY LAYS
(Nachtigall, dein edler Schall)
Nightingale, thy lordly lays Tell the heavy-hearted Of returning summer days, Winter gloom departed: At thy musick thorn and thatch Stand with rapture smitten: On my songster roll thy match Still remains unwritten.
# The Cambridge Carol Book/Now stand we in the village

XXI. NOW STAND WE IN THE VILLAGE
1.'Now stand we in the village, Where Jesse's bairns were born; Amid the fields of tillage, Whence Boaz reap'd his corn. Here welleth David's Fountain; There Rachel's body lies: Soon o'er yon Eastern mountain Shall Jacob's Star arise.
2.'The seventy weeks, appointed Of God, are now fulfill'd; Ere long the Lord's Anointed Shall born be, as He will'd; Whereat the prophet wond'red When Gabriel told him so In Babylon, four hundred And thirty years ago.
3.'Which Gabriel late did meet thee, And, with divining rod, Right reverently greet thee As Mother to his God. Let Ahaz read his dial, And (e'en as Esay bade) Confess, without denial, The Son of Mary Maid.
4.'Now, Lady, 'mid the number Of pilgrim folk, our kin, Go seek we place of slumber And shelter 'neath yond inn.' ​'Good Joseph, 'neath that gable, In chamber, great or small, The host will not be able To find us room withal:
5.'So turn we from the tavern, And, seeing night is nigh, Seek lodging in this cavern, Where kine and assen lie.' Ah! Bethlem, didst thou know it, Of yonder Maid, e'er morn, As Micah did foreshow it, In thee shall God be born.
# The Cambridge Carol Book/O the morn, the merry merry morn

XXII. O THE MORN, THE MERRY MERRY MORN
1.O the morn, the merry merry morn, The morn of Christmas-Day, When God, the Son of God, was born Of Mary maiden ay!
2.Sweet the song, the happy happy song, Precented at His birth, And caught up by the heav'nly throng, 'Good-will, and Peace on earth!'
3.To the town, the tiny tiny town, The town of Bethlem, ran Some simple shepherds, o'er the down, To view Him God and Man.
4.There within a cattle cattle shed They find and worship Him, Who rideth, in His realm o'erhead, Upon the Cherubim.
5.So, my boys, my bonny bonny boys, To Bethlem off be we But, pray you, shun whate'er annoys The Babe on Mary's knee.
# The Cambridge Carol Book/Jesu, maltreated

From Piae Cantiones
XXXIX. JESU, MALTREATED
(O dulcis Jesus)
Jesu, maltreated, roughly greeted, With repeated scoff and blow, O spare us, young or hoary! Who foughtest knightly, And didst rightly Quell th' unsightly fiend our foe, And now art clad with glory. From hell-gate, long their prison, Thy people Thou unchainest; And Thou, the third day risen, As King supreme remainest.
O dulcis Jesus, spinis laesus, Flagris caesus asperis, ​Velis placatus fore! Qui lux de luce, Victo duce, Pendens cruce sceleris, Indutus es splendore, Inferni portas urgens, Inde tuos duxisti, Post triduum resurgens, Mundi Victor fuisti.
# The Cambridge Carol Book/Moses, sing unto Christ thy King

XLIII. MOSES, SING UNTO CHRIST THY KING
℣.Moses, sing unto Christ thy King, Who hath won the victory, And hath laid low haughty Pharao Underneath the deep Red Sea.
℟.Yea, merry, merry, merry, merry may we be, As bird upon the berry of the may or cherry-tree, While as we stand with harp in hand On the shore of the Red, Red Sea
℣.God perforce overthrew the horse, Rider, car, and axle-tree. They sank as lead, and their men lie dead, Dead as stone: so mote it be!
℟.Then merry, merry, etc.
℣.His right hand, and His wonder-wand Did divide, at His decree, The surging wave, and thereby did save Us and ours from slavery.
℟.Then merry, merry, etc.
℣.Egypt spake, 'I will overtake And despoil mine enemy: I will, and must, satisfy my lust On the folk of Jewery.'
℟.But merry, merry, etc.
℣.Thou didst blow, and entomb our foe In the bottom of the sea: And, if dry-shod we went o'er, O God, Be ascribed the praise to Thee!
℟.While merry, merry, etc.
​℣.Miriam, wake! Lute and timbrel take! With thy women dance for glee! And make respond to thy brother yond With the Staff that set us free!
℟.For merry, merry, etc.