Section 2. ORIGIN OF ENGLISH BOROUGHS AND CITIES.See Loftie's History of London, 2 vols., London, 1883; Toulmin Smith's English Gilds, with Introduction by Lujo Brentano, London, 1870; and the histories of the English Constitution, especially those of Gneist, Stubbs, Taswell-Langmead, and Hannis Taylor.

The death of Taswell Skaggs was stimulating, to say the least, inapplicable though the expression may seem.

Taswell Skaggs was dead and once more remembered.

Before them on the table lay the contents of a bulky envelope: a long and stupendous letter from their London correspondents and with it a copy of Taswell Skaggs's will.

As this tale has to do with the adventures of Taswell Skaggs's heirs and not with the strange old gentleman who sleeps his last sleep literally in the midst of the island of Japat, it is eminently wise to make as little as possible of him.

His wife was serving as governess in the home of a certain earl when Taswell won her heart and dragged her from the exalted position of minding other people's children into the less conspicuous one of caring for her own.

Taswell Skaggs was in Shanghai when he heard the news.

In course of time he came upon his old-time neighbour and boyhood friend, Taswell Skaggs, in the city of Shanghai.

"'Ow do you know?" demanded Taswell.

Jack Wyckholme, gentleman's son and ne'er-do-well, possessed nine pounds and a fraction, an appetite and excellent spirits, while Taswell Skaggs exhibited a balance of one thousand pounds in a Shanghai bank, a fairly successful trade in Celestial necessities, and an unbounded eagerness to change his luck.

As the outcome of this midnight proposition, Taswell Skaggs and John Wyckholme arrived, two months later, at the tiny island of Japat, somewhere south of the Arabian Sea, there to remain until their dying days and there to accumulate the wealth which gave the first named a chance to make an extraordinary will.

To what uses Taswell Skaggs and John Wyckholme could have put this vast, though splendid waste, the imagination cannot grasp.

"I am here to fight Taswell Skaggs and John Wyckholme, deceased.

That was twenty years before the death of Taswell Skaggs.

"The sagacity that Taswell Skaggs displayed in erecting an ice plant and cold storage house here is equalled only by John Wyckholme's foresightedness in maintaining a contemporaneous mint bed.

"No more so than Taswell Skaggs and John Wyckholme, who unquestionably cheated the natives out of the very treasure we have seen carried away.

Everything that Taswell Skaggs and John Wyckholme possessed in this island belongs to them under the terms of the will.

Two days and nights crept slowly into the past, and now the white people of the château had come to the eve of their last day's stay on the island of Japat: the probationary period would expire with the sun on the following day, the anniversary of the death of Taswell Skaggs.

No man in the despised house of Taswell Skaggs slept that night.

They no longer were interested in the island of Japat, except as a reminiscence, nor were they concerned in the vagaries of Taswell Skaggs's will.

To be perfectly explicit and as brief as possible, Lady Deppingham and Robert Browne divided that amount of money and passed into legal history as the "late claimants to the Estate of Taswell Skaggs.

They now had nothing in common with Taswell Skaggs; Skaggs is not a pretty name.

[TR: Riviana in text] Salena Taswell DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOLKLORE Annie Trip Millie Sampson Annie Gail Jessie Rowell Margaret White Priscilla Mitchell Fannie McCay Hattie Thomas David Lee FOLK STUFF, FLORIDA Jules A. Frost Tampa, Florida October 20, 1937 JOSEPHINE ANDERSON HANTS "I kaint tell nothin bout slavery times cept what I heared folks talk about.

SALENA TASWELL: Salena Taswell, 364 NW 8th St. Miami, Florida, is one of the oldest ex-slave women in Miami.

SALENA TASWELL: Salena Taswell, 364 NW 8th St. Miami, Florida, is one of the oldest ex-slave women in Miami.