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# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bisharaber Nath

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​Bisharaber Nath, B.A., LL.B.; Rao Saheh, Vakil; Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor, Municipal Commissioner and President of the Bar Association of Ajmir. Born at Agra, 1870; Educated at St. John's College, Agra, and Agra College; Enrolled as Vakil of Allahabad High Court, 1893; began practice in Ajmere; Joined Ajmir Municipal committee, 1896; got a sannad in 1901 for his work during the famine of 1899-1900; Joint Secretary to the Famine Relief Committee during 1905-1906; guest of Government at the last Delhi Coronation Durbar; Address: Civil Lines, Ajmir.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bishop, A. W. (Trivandrum)

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​Bishop, A. W. Ph.D., (Munich) Director of Public Instruction, Travancore State, joined service as Professor of Chemistry, Maharaja’s College, 1894; Principal of the same College 1909; Director of Public Instruction 1912; secured for the College, the appointment of a chair for Sanskrit and Dravidian Languages. Address: Trivandrum.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bishu Nath Singh, Raja, of Parenda

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​Bishu Nath Singh, Raja, of Parenda. Born, 1883; educated privately; succeeded to the Estate, 1902; son of Raja Sheo Datt Singh; married, 1875; son and Heir, Kunwar Rudra Pratab Singh; Hereditary title of Raja recognised, 1877. The estate consists of 10 villages and 3 pattis in the Mohan and Purwa tahsils, of Unao District, U.P., paying a revenue of about Rs 8,100/- Address: Parenda Estate, Unao District, U.P.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth

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​Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth, M.D., (Edin), K.C.I.E.; Born at Belgaum, 1832; son of General Christopher Birdwood, of the Indian Army; educated at Plymouth Grammar School, Dollar Acadamy and Edinburgh University; entered Bombay Medical Service 1854; served in Persian War, 1856-7; on return to Bombay took a prominent part in the life of the city, influencing, by his great popularity with the leaders of Indian thought, the endowments which were made to the newly established University, the construction of some of the public buildings and the carrying out of improvements which have earned for the town and island the title of “Bombay the Beautiful.” was for a time Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, and at Materia Medica and Botany of Grant Medical College; Curator of the Government Central Museum; Honorary Secretary, Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Agri-Horticultural Society; Registrar of the University; one of the founders of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the designer of the Victoria gardens at Byculla; Sheriff of Bombay, 1846; proceeded to England and joined the staff of the India Office, as Special Assistant in the Revenue and Statistical Department, 1878 to 1899; retired after two extensions of service beyond the ordinary age limit; held a leading position in all the principal International Exhibitions from 1857 to 1901: founded, with Prof. Chenery and others the Primerose Day. Publications: Economic Vegetable Products of the Bombay Presidency, 1888; Handbook of British Indian section, Paris Exhibition, 1878; The Industrial Arts of India, 1888; Report on the Old Records of the India office, 1891: First Letter Book of the East India Company, 1895; papers on The Genus “Bosewellia” (Frankincense Trees); Incens and other articles in Ency. Brit.; Report on Cultivation of Spanish Chestnuts, 1892; Report on Cultivation of Carrots in India, 1897-8; Appendix on the Aryan Fancy and Flora, to Max Muller’s Biagraphy of words, 1888; and prefaces and introductions to various well known works, such as Count d’Alviela’s Magratssons des symboles, besides many official reports on economic products, etc; a prolific contributor to leading journals and reviews, including the Times, and Athenaeum, the Quarterly Review; and the Journal of the Society of Arts, the latter containing a great number of his speeches and essays in connexion with the work of the S.I., 1887; K.C.I.E., 1887; LL.D. (Cambridge) 1886; Knight of Grace, and St. John of Jerusalem. Officer Legion of Honour; Laureate of French Academy; Recreation: gardening. Address. 119, The Avenue, West Ealing, W. Primrose and Northbrook Clubs.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bishen Datta Shukul

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​Bishen Datta Shukul B.A., M. R.S.A., Rai Bahadur, Born, 1876; educated at the Jubbulpur Raj Kumar College, and at the Lucknow Canning College; Honorary Magistrate, 1898; Member of the Royal Society of Arts. 1910; Chairman of the Local Board and Vice-President of the Municipal Committee; invited to the Durbar of 1911. Address: Sehora Road, C.P.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bisheshar Nath, Diwan Bahdr, Dewan of Rajgarh

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​Bisheshar Nath, Diwan Bahdr, Dewan of Rajgarh. Born, 1847; Educated in Government College, Delhi; Entered Service as an Inspector in the Commissariat Dept. and proceeded to Abyssinia with the expedition of 1867-68; Served as Accountant in P.W.D.; Services lent to Indore Durbar, 1891; worked as Accountant in the Residency and became Member of Council; Retired from Government Service in 1899; appointed Superintendent of Dewas (Senior Br.) 1900; K.I.H. Medal 1902; Appointed to Rajgarh State, 1902; Durbar Medal of 1903 and 1911; Rai Bahadur. 1907; Diwan Bahadur, 1911. Address: Rajgarh, Bhopal Agency, C.I.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Birdwood, Brig.-Gen. William Riddell

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​Birdwood, Brig.-Gen. William Riddell, C.S.I.; A.D.C. to His Majesty ​1910; C.I.E. 1908; D.S.O. 1908; Brigade Commander, India; b, 1865; e. surv. s. of late H. M. Birdwood, J.P., LL.D., C.S.I., M.A., I.C.S.; m. 1914, Jeannette Hope Gonville, e. d. of Col. Sir C. P. Bromhead, B.A., 4th Bart., q.v.; one s. two d. Educ: Clifton College, Sandhurst; Lieut. 4th Batt, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1883; 12th Lancers, 1885; 11th Bengal Lancers, 1886; Capt., 1896; Major, 1900; Lt.-Col., 1902; Col., 1905; Adjt., Viceroy’s Bodyguard, 1893; Brigade-Major, South Africa, 1899; D.A.A.G., S. Africa 1900; Military Secretary to Com.-in-chief, S. Africa (General Lord Kitchener), 1902: A.M.S. and Interpreter to Com-in-chief, India, 1892; A.A.G., Headquarters, India, 1904; Military Secretary to Com.-in-chief. General Lord Kitchener, India, 1905; Brigade Commander, 1909; A.D.C. to the King, 1906; served Hazara, 1891 (medal with clasp); Isazai, 1892; N.W. Frontier, India, 1897-98 (medal, two clasps); Tirah, 1897-98 (despatches, clasp); S. Africa, 1897-1902 (severely wounded, despatches five times, Brevet Major and Lieut.Col., Queen’s medal, 6 clasps, King' medal, 2 clasps); Chief Staff Officer Mohamedan Expedition, Present at action of Kargha. 1908, (despatches, medal and clasp, D.S.O). Brig. Com. in India. Address: Kohat, North West Frontier Province. India. Club.Cavalry.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bishen Das, Dewan Bahadur

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​Bishen Das, Dewan Bahadur, Member of Board of Revenue, in charge of Land Records and Settlements, Gwalior. Born, 1866; educated at Montgomery, Lahore High School, and Egerton College, Bhawalpore State. Commenced service in the Lower Grades and rose to the position of Assistant to the Resident at Gwalior, 1908: Publications: a few works in the Vernacular. Recreation: Hunting, Tennis and Billiards. Address: Lashkar, Gwalior State.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Bishop, A. W. (Rangoon)

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​Bishop, A. W.: Superintendent of Government Press, Rangoon; appointed, 1904.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Himayat-ud-Din-Ahmad

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​Himayat-ud-Din-Ahmad, Hon’ble Khan Bahadur, B.A., B.L.; Member of Dt. and Municipal Boards, Barisal; b, at Kushla, 1860; educ: Barisal Zillah School and Dacca Medrassah and College; organized an Association for female education among Mohammadans and took a leading part in founding the Dufferin Hostel at Dacca; first served as a teacher and then as a lawyer at Barisal; represented his community in the Legislative Council, Bengal; Member, Brojomohan College, and the Text book Committee. Address: Barisal, Bengal, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hiriyanna, M.

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​Hiriyanna, M., M.A. Headmaster, Government Normal School, Mysore; s. of Mr. M. Nunjundiah; b. 1871; educ: at the Maharaja’s College Mysore, and the Madras Christian College; joined the Educational Department of Mysore, and rose to present position, 1906. Address: Mysore City, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hobhouse, Sir Charles Parry

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​Hobhouse, Sir Charles Parry; 3rd Bt. (1812); b. Calcutta, 1825; 3rd s. of H. W. Hobhouse; S.U. 1869; educ: East Sheen, Rugby (Dr. Arnold) E.I.C. Hailebury; entered I.C.S. Bengal, 1844; Member, Bengal and Imperial Legislative Councils; Judge, High Court, Calcutta; owns 1600 acres; m. 1st, Edith Lucy, d. of Sir T. E. M. Turton, Bt. 1855 (d. 1867); 2nd, Anna Maria, d. of Alexander Sawers, merchant, Calcutta, 1868. Address: Manor House, Monkton Parleigh, Bradford on Avon, Wilts.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hill Tippera, Raja of; H.H. Raja Birendra Kishore Deb Barman Manikya

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​Hill Tippera, Raja of; H.H. Raja Birendra Kishore Deb Barman Manikya; b, 1883; S. his father late Raja Radha Kishore, 1909; claims descent from the family of Chandra, once the sole rulers of Hill Tippera. The chronicle of the family, Rajmala, says that one Raja Dharma Manikya, 14th in descent from Chandra, occupied the gaddi in 1407; in the 17th century, the family is said to have ruled over an extent of territory extending from the Hooghly on the West to Burma on the East and to Kamrup on the North; during the reign of Jehangir. Hill Tippera was invaded and captured and the then King Raja Jasa Manikya, taken to Delhi; but Jehangir was soon forced to evacuate the country and leave it under the control of the old Rajas; in the Muting of 1857, Raja Ishan Chandra Manikya was on the side of the British; area of the State, 4086 square miles; population, about 180,000; revenue, nearly 9 lakhs; owns the estates of Chakla Roshnabad, covering 570 square miles; entitled to a salute of 13 guns. Address: Hill Tippera, Bengal.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hira Lal

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​Hira Lal, B.A., M.R.A.S., Rai Bahadur, Extra Assistant Commissioner; b. 1867; educ: at Jubbulpur College where he commenced his service; appointed Deputy Inspector of Schools; rose to the position of Extra Assistant Commissioner; an authority on Ethnography, languages, Archælogy and epigraphy of the Central Provinces; contributes largely to the ​“Epigraphia Indica”; Rai Bahadur, 1910. Address: Jubbulpur, C.P., India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hirst, W. A.

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​Hirst, W. A. Principal, Gujerat College, Ahmedabad; b. Huddersfield, 1870; s. of Alfred Hirst, late of Dalton Lodge, Huddersfield; educ: Clifton Coll; Worcester College, Oxford; joined service as Professor of History, Govt. College, Lahore, 1895-96; First Professor, Meerut College, 1896 1902; joined the Gujerat College as Principal, 1902. m. Catherine, d. of George Thompson Hanogate, 1898. Publications: Survey of Ethics; edited Rokeby, with notes, 1904. Address: Gujerat College, Ahmedabad, Bombay Presy., India. Clubs: Junior Conservative; Wheler, Meerut; Himalaya, Mussoorie.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hodding, Colonel John

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​Hodding, Colonel John, C.I.E. (1903), V.D.; Chief Manager of the Estates of the Hon’ble Sir Khajeh Salimoolah, K.C.S.I, of Dacca, India; b. 1854; m. Mary, d. of Thomas Macgregor of Inverness, 1880; formerly commanding Behar Light Horse. Address: Dacca, Eastern Bengal, India . Club: Sports.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hodges, Rt. Rev. Edward Noel

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​Hodges, Rt. Rev. Edward Noel, D.D.; Rector, St. Cuthbert’s since 1907; b. 1849; educ: Queen’s College, Oxford; Ordained, 1873; Tuta Mission College, Islington, 1873-77; joined Service in India as Principal, Noble College, Masulipatani, 1877-86; Trinity College, Candy, 1886-89; Bishop of Travancore and Cochin, 1890 1904; Assistant Bishop to Bishop of Durham, 1904-6; Assistant Bishop of Ely, 1907; m. Alice, d. of Captain Shirreff, 1877. Address: Cuthbert’s Rectory, Bedford.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hodgson, L. C.

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​Hodgson, L. C., M.A., Principal, Maharaja’s College, Trivandram, since 1912; succeeded Dr. A. W. Bishop, in the post: since his appointment, the strength of the College as well as the fee income have both shown a considerable increase, and the number of volumes in the library attached to the College has risen to over 10,000. The High School department of the College has been located in a separate building. The students’ hostel has been enlarged affording accommodation to more students and the work of building a new wing to the Chemical laboratory was commenced. The salaries of the Indian and European professors of the College have been equalised, and Honors Courses in English, History and Economics, opened. Address: Trivandram, Travancore State, S. India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Hoernle, Augustus Frederic Rudolf

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​Hoernle, Augustus Frederic Rudolf, M.A, (Oxford). Ph.D. (Tubingen), C.I.E. (1897); b, Agra, 1841; 2nd s. of late Rev. T. C. Hoernle, C.M.S.; m. Sophie, d. of R. Romig of Bonn (Germany), 1877; educ:in Esslingen and Stuttgart; Universities of Basel, Tubingen, and London; Church Missionary in Meerut, 1815; Professor, Jay Narain’s Coll- Benares, 1870; Principal, Cathedral Mission College, Calcutta, 1877; joined Indian Educational Service, 1881; Principal, Calcutta Madrasah, 1881; retired, 1899; specially interested in archaeology, epigraghy, palaeography, etc. Publications: Comparative Grammar of the North Indian Languages; Comparative Dictionary of the Behari Language; Edition of the Bower Manuscript, of Chanda’s Prakrit Grammer of the Seventh Anga of the Jains; Report on the British Collection of Central Asain Antiquities; Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I. Osteology; History of India: numerous contributions to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and the Indian Antiquary, etc. Address: 8, Northmoor Road, Oxford.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 6

CHAP. VI.
——— But courage! gentle reader!—I scorn it—'tis enough to have thee in my power—but to make use of the advantage which the fortune of the pen has now gained over thee, would be too much———No———! by that all powerful fire which warms the visionary brain, and lights the spirits through unworldly tracts! ere I would force a helpless creature upon this hard service, and make thee pay, poor soul! for fifty pages which I have no right to sell thee,—naked as ​I am, I would browse upon the mountains, and smile that the north wind brought me neither my tent or my supper.
—So put on, my brave boy! and make the best of thy way to Boulogne.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 8

CHAP. VIII.
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in—woe be to truth! and woe be to the vehicle and its tackling (let 'em be made of what stuff you will) upon which he breathes forth the disappointment of his soul!
As I never give general characters either of men or things in choler, "the most haste, the worst speed;" was all the re- ​flection I made upon the affair, the first time it happen'd;—the second, third, fourth, and fifth time, I confined it respectively to those times, and accordingly blamed only the second, third, fourth, and fifth post-boy for it, without carrying my reflections further; but the event continuing to befall me from the fifth, to the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth time, and without one exception, I then could not avoid making a national reflection of it, which I do in these words;
That something is always wrong in a French post-chaise upon first setting out.
Or the proposition may stand thus.
A French postilion has always to alight ​before he has got three hundred yards out of town.
What's wrong now?—Diable!—a rope's broke!—a knot has slipt!—a staple's drawn!—a bolt's to whittle!—a tag, a rag, a jag, a strap, a buckle, or a buckle's tongue, want altering.———
Now true as all this is, I never think myself impower'd to excommunicate thereupon either the post-chaise, or its driver—nor do I take it into my head to swear by the living G—, I would rather go a foot ten thousand times—or that I will be damn'd if ever I get into another—but I take the matter coolly before me, and consider, that some tag, or ​rag, or jag, or bolt, or buckle, or buckle's tongue, will ever be a wanting, or want altering, travel where I will—so I never chaff, but take the good and the bad as they fall in my road, and get on:—Do so, my lad! said I; he had lost five minutes already, in alighting in order to get at a luncheon of black bread which he had cramm'd into the chaise-pocket, and was remounted and going leisurely on, to relish it the better—Get on, my lad, said I, briskly—but in the most persuasive tone imaginable, for I jingled a four and twenty sous piece against the glass, taking care to hold the flat side towards him, as he look'd back: the dog grinn'd intelligence from his right ear to his left, and behind his sooty ​muzzle discover'd such a pearly row of teeth, that Sovereignty would have pawn'd her jewels for them.———
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| Just heaven! | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | What bread!——— |
and so, as he finish'd the last mouthful of it, we enter'd the town of Montreuil.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 40

CHAP. XL.
And now for Lippius's clock! said I, with the air of a man, who had got thro' all his difficulties—nothing can prevent us seeing that, and the Chinese history, &c. except the time, said François———for 'tis almost eleven—then we must speed the faster, said I, striding it away to the cathedral.
I cannot say, in my heart, that it gave me any concern in being told by one of the minor canons, as I was entering the west door,—That Lippius's great clock was all out of joints, and had not gone for some years—It will give me the more time, thought I, to peruse the Chinese history; and besides I shall be able to give the world a better account of the ​clock in it's decay, than I could have done in its flourishing condition———
—And so away I posted to the college of the Jesuits.
Now it is with the project of getting a peep at the history of China in Chinese characters—as with many others I could mention, which strike the fancy only at a distance; for as I came nearer and nearer to the point—my blood cool'd—the freak gradually went off, till, at length I would not have given a cherry-stone to have it gratified—The truth was, my time was short, and my heart was at the Tomb of the Lovers———I wish to God, said I, as I got the rapper in my hand, that the key of the library may be but lost; it fell out as well———
​For all the Jesuits had got the cholic—and to that degree, as never was known in the memory of the oldest practitioner.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 42

CHAP. XLII.
No matter how, or in what mood—but I flew from the tomb of the lovers—or rather I did not fly from it—(for there was no such thing existing) and just got time enough to the boat to save my passage;—and e'er I had sailed a hundred yards, the Rhône and the Saôn met together, and carried me down merrily betwixt them.
​But I have described this voyage down the Rhône, before I made it———
—So now I am at Avignion—and as there is nothing to see but the old house, in which the duke of Ormond resided, and nothing to stop me but a short remark upon the place, in three minutes you will see me crossing the bridge upon a mule, with François upon a horse with my portmanteau behind him, and the owner of both, striding the way before us with a long gun upon his shoulder, and a sword under his arm, least peradventure we should run away with his cattle. Had you seen my breeches in entering Avignon,—Though you'd have seen them better, I think, as I mounted—you would not have thought the precaution amiss, or found in your heart to have taken it, in dudgeon: for my own ​part, I took it most kindly; and determined to make him a present of them, when we got to the end of our journey, for the trouble they had put him to, of arming himself at all points against them.
Before I go further, let me get rid of my remark upon Avignon, which is this; That I think it wrong, merely because a man's hat has been blown off his head by chance the first night he comes to Avignion;—that he should therefore say, "Avignion is more subject to high winds than any town in all France:" for which reason I laid no stress upon the accident till I had inquired of the master of the inn about it, who telling me seriously it was so—and hearing moreover, the windyness of Avignion spoke of in the country about as a proverb—I set it down, merely to ask the learned what can ​be the cause—the consequence I saw—for they are all Dukes, Marquisses, and Counts, there—the duce a Baron, in all Avignion—so that there is scarce any talking to them, on a windy day.
Prithee friend, said I, take hold of my mule for a moment—for I wanted to pull off one of my jack-boots, which hurt my heel—the man was standing quite idle at the door of the inn, and as I had taken it into my head, he was someway concerned about the house or stable, I put the bridle into his hand—so begun with my boot:—when I had finished the affair, I turned about to take the mule from the man, and thank him———
—But Monsieur le Marquis had walked in———
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 7/Chapter 43

CHAP. XLIII.
I had now the whole south of France, from the banks of the Rhône to those of the Garonne to traverse upon my mule at my own leisure—at my own leisure—for I had left Death, the lord knows—and He only—how far behind me—"I have followed many a man thro' France, quoth he—but never at this mettlesome rate"—Still he followed,—and still I fled him—but I fled him chearfully—still he pursued—but like one who pursued his prey without hope—as he lag'd, every step he lost, softened his looks—why should I fly him at this rate?
So notwithstanding all the commissary of the post-office had said, I changed the ​mode of my travelling once more; and after so precipitate and rattling a course as I had run, I flattered my fancy with thinking of my mule, and that I should traverse the rich plains of Languedoc upon his back, as slowly as foot could fall.
There is nothing more pleasing to a traveller—or more terrible to travel-writers, than a large rich plain; especially if it is without great rivers or bridges; and presents nothing to the eye, but one unvaried picture of plenty: for after they have once told you that 'tis delicious! or delightful! (as the case happens)—that the soil was grateful, and that nature pours out all her abundance, &c . . . . they have then a large plain upon their hands, which they know not ​what to do with—and which is of little or no use to them but to carry them to some town; and that town, perhaps of little more, but a new place to start from to the next plain———and so on.
—This is most terrible work; judge if I don't manage my plains better.