I wus on the Bombay Castle when she took cholera, an' we hed twenty-one days of it beatin' agin head winds off the Cape.

The diplomat Su Wu on an embassy to Turkey.

The country was poor, and its only important economic asset was the trade in metals, timber, and other southern products; soon there came also a growing overseas trade with India and the Middle East, bringing revenues to the state in so far as the goods were re-exported from Wu to the north.

Leastwise I seemed ter know whut I wus about when I cum up.

The last I saw o' him wus at sea.

"The vust pleace I got work at, It wus by the job, But if I hed

" "Wives are less patriotic than mothers," I began; but he would not hear Lucindy blamed, and said quickly, "She ain't my wife yet, but we calk'lated to be married in a month or so; and it was wus for her than for me, women lot so on not being disappointed.

At wust, it can't be wus than wut we've had.

The sources paint the pictures of the Empress Wu in very dark colours.

"Seen whut wus up 'fore ever they med a move," said D'ri.