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# Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (1816-1820)/Bessy Bell and Mary Gray

BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY.
O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, They were twa bonny lasses; They bigg'd a house on yon burn brae, And theek'd it o'er wi' rashes. Fair Bessy Bell I lo'ed yestreen, And thought I ne'er could alter; But Mary Gray's twa pawky een, They gar my fancy falter.
Now Bessy's hair's like a lint-tap; She smiles like a May morning. When Phoebus starts frae Thetis' lap, The hills with rays adorning; White is her neck, saft is her hand, Her waist and feet's fu' genty; With ilka grace she can command; Her lips, O wow! they're dainty.
And Mary's locks are like a craw, Her een like diamonds glauces; She's ay sae clean, redd up, and braw, She kills whene'er she dances; Blythe as a kid, with wit at will, She blooming, tight, and tall is, And guides her airs sae gracefu' still, O Jove, she's like thy Pallas.
​Dear Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, Ye unco sair oppress us; Our fancies jee between you twae, Ye are sic bonnie lasses. Waes me! for baith I canna get, To ane by law we're stented; Then I'll draw cuts, and tak my fate. And be with ane contented.
# Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (1816-1820)/Broom o' Cowdenknowes

BROOM OF COWDENKNOWES.
How blythe was I ilk morn to see My swain come o'er the hill! He leap'd the burn, and flew to me, I met him wi' good will.
O, the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom, The broom of the Cowdenknowes. I wish I were wi' my dear swain, Wi' his pipe and my ewes.
I neither wanted ewe nor lamb, While his flocks near me lay; He gather'd in my sheep at night. And cheer'd me a' the day.
O, the broom, &c.
He tun'd his pipe and reed so sweet, The birds stood list'ning by; ​Ev'n the dull cattle stood and gaz'd, Charm'd wi' his melody. O, the broom, &c.
While thus we spent our time, by turns, Betwixt the flocks and play, I envied not the fairest dame. Though e'er so rich and gay. O, the broom, &c.
Hard fate! that I should banish'd be, Gang heavily, and mourn, Because I lov'd the kindest swain That ever yet was born. O, the broom, &c.
He did oblige me ev'ry hour; Could I but faithful be? He staw my heart; could I refuse Whate'er he ask'd of me? O, the broom, &c.
My doggie, and my little kit. That held my wee soup whey, My plaidie, broach, and crooked stick Maun now lie useless by. O, the broom, &c.
Adieu, ye Cowdenknowes, adieu! Fareweel a'pleasures there! ​Ye gods, restore me to my swain, Its a' I crave or care. O, the broom, &c.
# Astounding Science Fiction/Volume 44/Number 05/The Analytical Laboratory

From Astounding Science Fiction, vol. 44, no. 5 (January 1950)
THE ANALYTICAL LABORATORY
Because there were seven stories in the October, 1949 issue, the point scores inevitably run higher than usual. Because there was considerable disagreement as to just which yarn merited first place, the scattering of point-votes made the scores come out high on the first few places, too. And it's well worthy of mention that a short story—"Production Test"—succeeded in making second place despite the fact that experience shows novelettes have a big advantage in the voting.
Incidentally, next month's scores should be very interesting! We had considerable fun fixing up that November issue that way!
However, here are the standings for the October, 1949 issue:
| Place | Story | Author | Points |
| 1. | The Automagic Horse | L. Ron Hubbard | 2.71 |
| 2. | Production Test | Raymond F. Jones | 3.00 |
| 3. | The Aristocrat | Chan Davis | 3.13 |
| 4. | Time Heals | Poul Anderson | 3.75 |
| 5. | Defense Mechanism | Katherine MacLean | 4.14 |
So, gentlemen, have you voted. Incidentally, if you haven't the time and/or energy for a letter, a penny postcard gets your opinion properly scored on the tally. What you think of the stories will, of course, have no influence on my choice of material—unless you communicate that opinion!The Editor.
# Astounding Science Fiction/Volume 54/Number 06/In Times to Come

In Times to Come
Next month, Mark Clifton's personnel psychologist who challenged the Army to supply him with six poltergeists, male type, gets his bluff called. Van Dongen's done a lovely cover on it; you'll find the Swami from Brooklyn precariously mounted on his Flying Bath Mat gracing you local newsstand next month. One of the best of our recent covers, I think. And Clifton, as usual, has fun with his "Sense From Thought Divide"—and, while he's having fun, makes a considerable amount of solid sense. If a medium insists he has to have a dim blue light to make his strange phenomena develop, how does he differ from a photographer who insists he has to have a dim reddish light to make his phenomena develop properly?
Astounding is also breaking a tradition next month; for the first time, we will publish a full page photograph of the author of one of our articles. Sylvia Jacobs has a piece on "Hold That Helium!" concerning the proper atmosphere for spaceships. I fear, however, that few readers are apt to recognize.Mrs. Jacobs from her published picture. But you'll see next month. . . .
The Editor.
# Astounding Science Fiction/Volume 54/Number 06

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Science Fiction
Volume LIV • Number 6
February 1955
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# Astounding Science Fiction/Volume 54/Number 06/Purely Coincidence, No Doubt

Purely Coincidence, No Doubt
The following series of figures is almost certainly familiar to you:
This series of figures are all—including #6, despite appearances—single figures, produced by simple geometry. They are single members of a family of figures similar to the family of conic sections. Conic sections range from a straight line through hyperbola, parabola, ellipse to circle.
The above figures are toroidal sections; they don't come from a biology text, but can be produced at home with a knife and a doughnut. #1 and #2 are produced by cutting the doughnut in a plane parallel to the plane of the doughnut. #3 through #6 are produced by cuts varying distances from the axis of the doughnut's hole—#6 being the intersection of the plane passed through the axis, of course. #6 looks for all the world like two separate entities, but recognizing it as simply the cut surfaces of a doughnut, it's evident that it's actually a single figure.
A smoke-ring would show the same characteristics, of course, but being highly dynamic, retaining its structure only by reason of its dynamic movement, it can't be sectioned without dissolution.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Isaiah/Part 1

On the Prophet Isaiah.
I.
Hippolytus, (Bishop) of Rome on Hezekiah.
When Hezekiah, king of Judah, was still sick and weeping, there came an angel, and said to him: “I have seen thy tears, and I have heard thy voice. Behold, I add unto thy time fifteen years. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord: Behold, I turn back the shadow of the degrees of the house of thy father, by which the sun has gone down, the ten degrees by which the shadow has gone down,” so that day be a day of thirty-two hours. For when the sun had run its course to the tenth hour, it returned again. And again, when Joshua the son of Nun was fighting against the Amorites, when the sun was now inclining to its setting, and the battle was being pressed closely, Joshua, being anxious lest the heathen host should escape on the descent of night, cried out, saying, “Sun, stand thou still in Gibeon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon,” until I vanquish this people.  And the sun stood still, and the moon, in their places, so that day was one of twenty-four hours. And in the time of Hezekiah the moon also turned back along with the sun, that there might be no collision between the two elemental bodies, by their bearing against each other in defiance of law. And Merodach the Chaldean, king of Babylon, being struck with amazement at that time—for he studied the science of astrology, and measured the courses of these bodies carefully—on learning the cause, sent a letter and gifts to Hezekiah, just as also the wise men from the east did to Christ.

## Footnotes

* ↑ In Gallandi, from a codex of the Coislin Library, Num. 193, fol. 36.
* ↑ [Here we have the blunder (noted supra, p. 175) repeated as to Rome, which must be here taken as meaning the Roman Province, not the See. The word “Bishop,” which avoids the ambiguity above noted, I have therefore put into parenthesis.]
* ↑ Isa. xxxviii. 5, 7, 8.
* ↑ Josh. x. 12.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Isaiah/Part 2

II.
From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus on the beginning of Isaiah.
Under Egypt he meant the world, and under things made with hands its idolatry, and under the shaking its subversion and dissolution.And the Lord, the Word, he represented as upon a light cloud, referring to that most pure tabernacle, in which setting up His throne, our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to shake error.

## Footnotes

* ↑ [Theodoret, in his First Dialogue.]
* ↑ The text is evidently corrupt: Κύριον δὲ τὸν Λόγον, νεφέλην δὲ κούφην τὸ καθαρώτατον σκῆνος, etc. The reference must be to ch. xix. 1.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Jeremiah and Ezekiel

On Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
What were the dimensions, then, of the temple of Solomon? Its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty. And it was not turned to the east, that the worshippers might not worship the rising sun, but the Lord of the sun. And let no one marvel if, when the Scripture gives the length at forty cubits, I have said sixty. For a little after it mentions the other twenty, in describing the holy of holies, which it also names Dabir. Thus the holy place was forty cubits, and the holy of holies other twenty. And Josephus says that the temple had two storeys, and that the whole height was one hundred and twenty cubits. For so also the book of Chronicles indicates, saying, “And Solomon began to build the house of God. In length its first measure was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height one hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ That Hippolytus wrote on Jeremiah is recorded, so far as I know, by none of the ancients; for the quotation given in the Catena of Greek fathers on Jer. xvii. 11 is taken from his book On Antichrist, chap. lv. Rufinus mentions that Hippolytus wrote on a certain part of the prophet Ezekiel, viz., on those chapters which contain the description of the temple of Jerusalem; and of that commentary the following fragments are preserved.—De Magistris.
* ↑ διόροφον.
* ↑ 2 Chron. iii. 1, 3, 4.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Genesis
## Contents

* Part 1
* Part 2
* Part 3
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Genesis/Part 2

II.
From the Commentary of the Holy Hippolytus of Rome Upon Genesis.
Gen. ii. 7  “And God formed man of the dust of the ground.” And what does this import? Are we to say, according to the opinion of some, that there were three men made, one spiritual, one animal, and one earthy? Not such is the case, but the whole narrative is of one man. For the word, “Let us make,” is about the man that was to be; and then comes the word, “God made man of the dust of the ground,” so that the narrative is of one and the same man. For then He says, “Let him be made,” and now He “makes him,” and the narrative tells “how” He makes him.

## Footnotes

* ↑ From the Second Book of the Res Sacræ of Leontius and Joannes, in Mai, Script. vet., vii. p. 84.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Isaiah
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# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Isaiah/Part 3

III.
We find in the commentaries, written by our predecessors, that day had thirty-two hours. For when the sun had run its course, and reached the tenth hour, and the shadow had gone down by the ten degrees in the house of the temple, the sun turned back again by the ten degrees, according to the word of the Lord, and there were thus twenty hours. And again, the sun accomplished its own proper course, according to the common law, and reached its setting. And thus there were thirty-two hours.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Hippolytus wrote on Isaiah with the view of making the most of the favourable disposition entertained by the Emperor Alexander Severus towards the Christians, and particularly on that part where the retrogression of the sun is recorded as a sign of an extension of life to Hezekiah.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/On Kings

On Kings.
The question is raised, whether Samuel rose by the hand of the sorceress or not. And if, indeed, we were to allow that he did rise, we should be propounding what is false. For how could a demon call back the soul, I say not of a righteous man merely, but of any one whatever, when it had gone, and was tarrying one knew not where? But he says, how then was the woman dismayed, and how did she see in an extraordinary way men ascending? For if her vision had not been of an extraordinary kind, she would not have said, “I see gods ascending out of the earth.” She invoked one, and how did there ascend many? What then? Shall we say that the souls of all who appeared ascended, and those, too, not invoked by the woman; or that what was seen was merely phantasms of them? Even this, however, will not suffice. How, he urges further, did Saul recognise (what appeared), and do obeisance? Well, Saul did not actually see, but only, on being told by the woman that the figure of one of those who ascended was the figure he desired, and taking it to be Samuel, he consulted it as such, and did it obeisance. And it could be no difficult matter for the demon to conjure up the form of Samuel, as it was known to him. How then, says he, did he foretell the calamities that were to befall Saul and Jonathan at the same time? He did foretell indeed the end of the war, and how Saul would be overcome, drawing that as an inference from the wrath of God against him. Just as a physician, who has no exact knowledge of the science, might yet, seeing a patient past cure, tell of his death, though he made an error as to the hour, so, too, the demon, knowing the wrath of God by Saul’s deeds, and by this very attempt to consult the sorceress, foretells his defeat and his death at the same time, though in error as to the day of his death.

## Footnotes

* ↑ A fragment from the tractate of Hippolytus, On the Sorceress (ventriloquist), or On Saul and the Witch, 1 Sam. xxviii. From the Vatican ms. cccxxx, in Allat., De Engastr., edited by Simon, in the Acts of the Martyrs of Ostia, p. 160, Rome, 1795.
* ↑ [Rather “god,” the plural of excellence, Elohim.]
* ↑ [This passage is the scandal of commentators. As I read it, the Lord interfered, surprising the woman and horrifying her. The soul of the prophet came back from Sheol, and prophesied by the power of God. Our author misunderstands the Hebrew plural.]
# Barnes v. Alexander

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United States Supreme Court
232 U.S. 117
Barnes v. Alexander
Argued: December 1, 1913. --- Decided: January 12, 1914
Mr. Eugene S. Ives for appellants.
Messrs. J. L. B. Alexander, William M. Seabury, Aldis B. Browne, Alexander Britton, and Evans Browne for appellees.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Barnes v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Railway Company

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United States Supreme Court
122 U.S. 1
Barnes v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Railway Company
Page 2 Francis Fellowes and Wm. Barnes, for appellant.
John W. Cary, for appellee.
WAITE, C. J.

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# Barnes v. Boyd

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United States Supreme Court
294 U.S. 723
Barnes v. Boyd
Mr. J. Franklin Fairleigh, of Louisville, Ky., for petitioner.

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# Barnes v. Boyd/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
294 U.S. 723
Barnes v. Boyd
For opinion below, see 73 F.(2d) 910.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.

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# Billy Budd/Chapter 20

Chapter 20
Full of disquietude and misgiving the Surgeon left the cabin. Was Captain Vere suddenly affected in his mind, or was it but a transient excitement, brought about by so strange and extraordinary a happening? As to the drum-head court, it struck the Surgeon as impolitic, if nothing more. The thing to do, he thought, was to place Billy Budd in confinement and in a way dictated by usage, and postpone further action in so extraordinary a case to such time as they should rejoin the squadron, and then refer it to the Admiral. He recalled the unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his excited exclamations so at variance with his normal manner. Was he unhinged? But assuming that he is, it is not so susceptible of proof. What then can he do? No more trying situation is conceivable than that of an officer subordinate under a Captain whom he suspects to be, not mad indeed, but yet not quite unaffected in his intellect. To argue his order to him would be insolence. To resist him would be mutiny.
In obedience to Captain Vere he communicated what had happened to the lieutenants and Captain of Marines; saying nothing as to the Captain's state. They fully shared his own surprise and concern. Like him too they seemed to think that such a matter should be referred to the Admiral.
# Billy Budd/Chapter 28

Chapter 28
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.
How it fared with the Handsome Sailor during the year of the Great Mutiny has been faithfully given. But tho' properly the story ends with his life, something in way of sequel will not be amiss. Three brief chapters will suffice.
In the general re-christening under the Directory of the craft originally forming the navy of the French monarchy, the St. Louis line-of-battle ship was named the Atheiste. Such a name, like some other substituted ones in the Revolutionary fleet, while proclaiming the infidel audacity of the ruling power was yet, tho' not so intended to be, the aptest name, if one consider it, ever given to a war-ship; far more so indeed than the Devastation, the Erebus (the Hell) and similar names bestowed upon fighting-ships.
On the return-passage to the English fleet from the detached cruise during which occurred the events already recorded, the Indomitable fell in with the Atheiste. An engagement ensued; during which Captain Vere, in the act of putting his ship alongside the enemy with a view of throwing his boarders across her bulwarks, was hit by a musket-ball from a port-hole of the enemy's main cabin. More than disabled he dropped to the deck and was carried below to the same cock-pit where some of his men already lay. The senior Lieutenant took command. Under him the enemy was finally captured and though much crippled was by rare good fortune successfully taken into Gibraltar, an English port not very distant from the scene of the fight. There, Captain Vere with the rest of the wounded was put ashore. He lingered for some days, but the end came. Unhappily he was cut off too early for the Nile and Trafalgar. The spirit that spite its philosophic austerity may yet have indulged in the most secret of all passions, ambition, never attained to the fulness of fame.
Not long before death, while lying under the influence of that magical drug which soothing the physical frame mysteriously operates on the subtler element in man, he was heard to murmur words inexplicable to his attendant--"Billy Budd, Billy Budd." That these were not the accents of remorse, would seem clear from what the attendant said to the Indomitable's senior officer of marines who, as the most reluctant to condemn of the members of the drum-head court, too well knew, tho' here he kept the knowledge to himself, who Billy Budd was.