A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police (Special Branch) Officer

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Paddy-Paws Four Adventures of the Prairie Dog With the Red Coat first published 1914 written by Grace Coolidge, illustrated by Warner Carr “Here’s his cache!” He simply thrust the bottle into his mother’s hands. Up he popped in front of the little girl. “What makes her cry so, mother?” With a patter of tiny hoofs it landed at once on the roof. He peered in at the window. He popped his head through it at last. Curled up in little round balls Walter Crane The North Wind Doth Blow and We shall have. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) The Khirka is a specific type of cloak worn by the Sufi mystic. The word ‘khirka’ originally meant a scrap of torn material. But it has an unworldly nature, originally coloured blue to symbolise a vow of poverty. (Christians use brown and gray for the same symbolic purpose, which is why monks dress in brown or gray.) Test: guessing nature of certain skin–louse-skin. Louse (flea) is fattened and its skin made into coat (drum, etc.) In 1995 alone, an estimated 4,000 people were arrested in relation to widespread protests, including children as young as 10 – a form of collective punishment recalling British methods of criminalising the Kikuyu population in Kenya decades earlier. His greatest success for Britain was the capture of Dedan Kimathi, the last significant Mau Mau general, in 1956. Henderson was not present in the field that day, as he was in Nairobi entertaining a visit by Princess Margaret, the Queen of England’s sister. Kimathi was subsequently given a show trial and hanged. A statue of Dedan Kimathi in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo: Murungaru / Creative Commons)

The Irish God Lugh (or Lug) had a cloak that allowed him to pass unnoticed through the entire Irish army and rescue his son. A courageous woman flees an abusive spouse with her five dogs. Leaving Edmonton,Alberta, it takes her a year to reach Thunder Bay, Ontario. Her dog team pulls her on a modified tricycle and she camps by the highway in a tent. Relying on her wits a Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. The following is from Baughman’s Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America by Ernest Warren Baughman, 1966. Read through these story summaries and you’ll get a good idea of how coats have been used throughout history. Can you see patterns?Raincoats are getting to be a common item in the horror genre, to the point where you can almost expect a work to be a horror, or horror elements to suddenly enter a work, by the sight of a significant character wearing a raincoat. Raincoat of Horror, TV Tropes

After Bahrain’s massive pro-democracy protests in 2011, which saw at least 51 deaths from police brutality, a former Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner, John Yates, was recruited to help reform the Bahraini police. Franklin had served under Henderson in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising and worked for him in Bahrain from 1955 until the pair eventually fell out in 1971 over the latter’s controlling and secretive behaviour. Receiver of stolen goods. A tailor makes a Jew a coat of stolen goods. Accused of theft, he says that the Jew has the cloth.The Pied Piper’s cloak is a coat made out of scraps of material. The ‘pied’ (multicoloured) nature of it tells the reader that he is too poor to afford an impressive coat, and instead has to make do with fashioning something out of scraps. His coat marks him out as a scavenger, and this is partly why the councillors completely underestimate him as a threat. They wrongly assume that if this guy can’t even afford his own proper coat, he can’t be very good at coming after money. To be honest, it is a bit of a mystery why the Pied Piper hasn’t managed to find himself a proper coat until now. I deduce he just really liked the pied coat, or it suited him well to be underestimated, maybe because he was a psychopath who enjoyed seeking retributive justice on those who had wronged him, acting as a Medieval Dexter. Ad from Argosy Magazine November, 1922. Moleskin Coat – 50 Cents Down. Modern consumers have access to cheap clothing, due to the slave wages received by factory workers in poor countries. But my grandparents lived in an era when a coat was like furniture — so expensive that you could pay them off in installments.

Derek Franklin's story is a tale of adventure and personal success and told with modesty and humour. I found it enjoyable reading. John Bauer (1882 – 1918) c 1913 illustration ‘The Blue Cloak’ also known as Prince and Tomten The Majestic Coat InvertedIan arrested the whole lot,” Franklin said, causing concerns from the sheikh who did not want to appear pro-Israel. But the police commandant, Jim Bell, defended Henderson, insisting the latter had sources indicating they were “up to no good”. Compassionate executioner: bloody coat. A servant charged with killing the hero smears the latter‘s coat with the blood of an animal as proof of the execution and lets the hero escape.

But without Reuben, the murderous brothers planned to sell Joseph. They could get 20 pieces of silver by selling him to some people passing through. So that’s what they did. Here’s another story about a coat and a man called Joseph. ‘Le Manteau de Joseph Olénine’ is an 1886 French story b y Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé. A man falls in love with a coat. Patricia Worth has provided an English translation here. Derek Franklin, who has died aged 91, served undercover against the Mau Mau during the rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s. One torture survivor spoke to me anonymously about his experience. He states that an expatriate British officer was directly involved in his torture. First, Bahraini officers detained and threatened him to make him confess “the donkey’s way” – with torture. He insisted he had nothing to confess. Amnesty International states that the two men face execution “following a grossly unfair trial that relied heavily on torture-tainted ‘confessions’”.The book covers the author's 27 years as a Policeman in Africa and the Middle East. From Desert to Rain Forest, villages to Capital cities, its all there.