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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Woodbridge

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​WOODBRIDGE, a market town in the Woodbridge parliamentary division of Suffolk, England; 79 m. N.E. by E. from London by the Great Eastern railway. Pop. of urban district (1901) 4640. It is prettily situated near the head of the Deben estuary, which enters the North Sea 10 m. S . by E. The church of St Mary the Virgin is a beautiful Perpendicular structure, with a massive and lofty tower of flint work. The large estate left by Thomas Seekford of Sekforde (1578) endows the grammar school and hospital. Woodbridge Abbey, built by Seekford, occupies the site of an Augustinian foundation of the 12th century. There is a large agricultural trade, and general fairs and horse fairs are held.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wood, Mrs Henry

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​WOOD, MRS HENRY [Ellen] (1814-1887), English novelist, was born at Worcester on the 17th of January 1814. Her maiden name was Price; her father was a glove manufacturer in Worcester. She married Henry Wood in 1836, and after her marriage lived for the most part in France, her husband, who died in 1866, being at the head of a large shipping and banking, firm. In 1860 she wrote a temperance tale, Danesbury House, which gained a prize of £100 offered by the Scottish Temperance League; but before this she had regularly contributed anonymous stories to periodicals. Her first great success was made with East Lynne (1861), which obtained enormous popularity. It was translated into several languages, and a number of dramatic versions were made. The Channings and Mrs Halliburton's Troubles followed in 1862; Verner's Pride and The Shadow of Ashlydyat in 1863; Lord Oakburn's Daughters, Oswald Cray and Trevlyn Hold in 1864. She became proprietor and editor of the Argosy magazine in 1867, and the Johnny Ludlow tales, published anonymously there, are the most artistic of her works. Among the thirty-five novels Mrs Henry Wood produced, the best of those not hitherto mentioned were Roland Yorke (1869); Within the Maze (1872) and Edina (1876). She continued to edit the Argosy, with the assistance of her son, Mr C. W. Wood, till her death, which occurred on the 10th of February 1887.
Memorials of Mrs Henry Wood, by her son, were published in 1894.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wood, Searles Valentine

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​WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798–1880), English palaeontologist, was born on the 14th of February 1798. He went to sea in 1811 as a midshipman in the British East India Company's service, which he left, however, in 1826. He then settled at Hasketon near Woodbridge, Suffolk. He devoted himself to a study of the mollusca of the Newer Tertiary (Crag) of Suffolk and Norfolk, and the Older Tertiary (Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin. On the latter subject he published A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England (1861–1871), issued by the Palaeontographical Society. His chief work was A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca (1848–1856), published by the same society, for which he was awarded the Wollaston medal in 1860 by the Geological Society of London; a supplement was issued by him in 1872–1874, a second in 1879, and a third (edited by his son) in 1882. He died at Martlesham, near Woodbridge, on the 26th of October 1880. His son, Searles Valentine Wood (1830–1884), was for some years a solicitor at Woodbridge, but gave up the profession and devoted his energies to geology, studying especially the structure of the deposits of the Crag and glacial drifts.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wood-louse

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​WOOD-LOUSE, a name commonly applied to certain terrestrial Crustacea of the order Isopoda (see Malacostraca), which are found in damp places, under stones or dead leaves, or among decaying wood. They form the tribe Oniscoidea and are distinguished from all other Isopoda by their habit of living on land and breathing air, and by a number of structural characters, such as the small size of the antennules and the absence of the mandibular pulp. As in most Isopods, the body is flattened, and consists of a head, seven thoracic segments which are always free, and six abdominal segments which may be free or fused. The “telson” is not separated from the last abdominal segment The head bears a pair of sessile compound eyes as well as the minute antennules and the longer antennae. Each of the seven thoracic segments carries a pair of walking legs. The appendages of the abdomen (with the exception of the last pair) are flat membranous plates and serve as organs of respiration. In many cases their outer branches have small cavities opening to the outside by slit-like apertures, and giving rise internally to a system of ramifying tubules filled with air. From their similarity to the air tubes or tracheae of insects and other air-breathing Arthropods these tubules are known as “pseudotracheae.”
The female wood-louse carries her eggs, after they are extruded from the body, in a pouch or “marsupium” which covers the under surface of the thorax and is formed by overlapping plates attached to the bases of the first five pairs of legs. The young, on leaving this pouch, are like miniature adults except that they are without the last pair of legs. Like all Arthropoda, they cast their skin frequently during growth. As a rule the skin of the hinder half of the body is moulted some days before that of the front half, so that individuals in process of moulting have a very peculiar appearance.
Some twenty-four species of wood-lice occur in the British Islands. Some, like the very common slaty-blue Porcellio scaber, are practically
Common Wood-louse, Oniscus asellus.
cosmopolitan in their distribution, having been transported, probably by the unconscious agency of man, to nearly all parts of the globe. Equally common is the brown, yellow-spotted Oniscus asellus. Armadillidium vulgare belongs to a group which have the power of rolling themselves up into a ball when touched and resembles the millipede Glomeris. It was formerly employed in popular medicine as a ready-made pill. The largest British species is Ligia oceanica, which frequents the sea-shore, just above high-water mark. In many points of structure, for instance in the long, many-jointed antennae, it is intermediate, as it is in habits, between the truly terrestrial forms and their marine allies. Finally, one of the most interesting species is the little, blind, and colorless Platyarthrus hoffmannseggi, which lives as a guest or commensal in the nests of ants.  (W. T. Ca.)
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# A Ballad of John Silver

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We were schooner-rigged and rakish,
With a long and lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colours of the crossbones and the skull;
We'd a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore,
And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore.
We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship,
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip;
It's a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored,
But we chased the goodly merchant-men and laid their ships aboard.
Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and the wounded filled the chains,
And the paint-work all was spatter-dashed with other people's brains,
She was boarded, she was looted, she was scuttled till she sank.
And the pale survivors left us by the medium of the plank.
O! then it was (while standing by the taffrail on the poop)
We could hear the drowning folk lament the absent chicken coop;
Then, having washed the blood away, we'd little else to do
Than to dance a quiet hornpipe as the old salts taught us to.
O! the fiddle on the fo'c'sle, and the slapping naked soles,
And the genial "Down the middle, Jake, and curtsey when she rolls!"
With the silver seas around us and the pale moon overhead,
And the look-out not a-looking and his pipe-bowl glowing red.
Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played,
All have since been put a stop to by the naughty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest,
A little south the sunset in the islands of the Blest.
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# A Ballade of Theatricals

From a souvenir programme produced for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912, for those affected by the sinking of the Titanic just a month previously. It includes poems and prose by many famous and lesser known authors of the day, at least one of which, (Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain") is a first published appearance, in an early form.
Though all the critics' canons grow-- Far seedier than the actors' own-- Although the cottage-door's too low-- Although the fairy's twenty stone-- Although, just like the telephone, She comes by wire and not by wings, Though all the mechanism's known-- Believe me, there are real things.
Yes, real people--even so-- Even in a theatre, truth is known, Though the agnostic will not know, And though the gnostic will not own, There is a thing called skin and bone, And many a man that struts and sings Has been as stony-broke as stone . . . Believe me, there are real things
There is an hour when all men go; An hour when man is all alone. When idle minstrels in a row Went down with all the bugles blown-- When brass and hymn and drum went down, Down in death's throat with thunderings-- Ah, though the unreal things have grown, Believe me, there are real things.
 ENVOY.
Prince, though your hair is not your own And half your face held on by strings, And if you sat, you'd smash your throne-- --Believe me, there are real things.
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