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Ballads should be written down literally as they are recited; with as little interruption as possible during the process of recitation; without any sort of attempt, then or afterwards, to make better sense, or any sense, better rhyme or any rhyme; without altering the arrangement, though it may appear to be wrong, and without the slightest addition on the part of the collector. The collector must also be careful not to push leading questions so far - in case what is delivered is unintelligible or fragmentary - as to vitiate the spontaneous operation of memory, I mean, make the reciter fancy that...
...Charles Sw-nb-rne and G-rge Fr-ncis Tr-in chatted merrily away, kept warm, perhaps, by their own heated imaginations. The President of a certain famous institution of learning sat by himself in one corner of the building, in order that the rest of the assembly might attempt to keep warm; and every one looked that way whenever this great functionary raised his eyes, and, turning up their coat-collars, remarked to one another that the weather was frigid...
...President of the Union and others, who opposed the scheme of the Legislature as a branch of the Union, but warmly advocate it as an independent society, would entirely prevent the action of those who now make this proposition in your paper from being misconstrued into an attempt to damage the Union...
...NOTE. - The whole work seems to be an attempt at something funny. You have not handled your subject well. The whole is quite improbable. - INSTRUCTOR...
...difficult than under last year's rules. By the Association rules the competitor must take off behind the scratch, and the measurement will be taken from the scratch line to the first break of the ground made by any part of his person. Stepping over the line in an attempt will be "no jump," but will count as a "try." In the Intercollegiate rules the competitor was allowed to take off where he pleased, and the measurement was taken "from the toe of the extreme forward foot-print from which the rise is taken, to the backward heel-mark made...