[76] This was in 1862, before the Evidence Amendment Act, 1869, and Mr Bradlaugh's Oaths Act, 1888.
[77] See "Poems, Essays, and Fragments." (A. and H. B. Bonner)
[78] Despite the sharpness—to use no harsher term—of Mr Cooper's words and manner towards him, my father bore no malice, and showed himself quite ready to forgive and forget. A few months later, hearing that Mr Cooper was in very straitened circumstances, he expressed his desire to be allowed to join in the scheme for assisting his old opponent, for he believed him "to have been a well-intentioned, warm-hearted man, and one who, as a politician, has done good work."
[79] National Reformer, June 24th, 1866.
[80] National Reformer, June 24th, 1866.
[81] "Look at me," said Bagheera, and Mowgli looked at him steadily between the eyes. The big panther turned his head away in half a minute.
"That is why," he said, shifting his paw on the leaves, "not even I can look thee between the eyes, and I was born among men, and I love thee, little brother. The others they hate thee, because their eyes cannot meet thine; because thou art wise; because thou hast pulled out thorns from their feet; because thou art a man!"
Mowgli's Brothers, by Rudyard Kipling.
[82] Morning Advertiser.
[83] Mr Robert Forder, who was present at the Garibaldi meeting, sends me the following vivid account of what took place on that day:—