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II. My father's name used to be Thomas O'Donohue. I don't know what it is now. He is a man of leisure, and at present boards at the granite building near the Medical School. My mother's name was Bridget before her marriage, and is still, I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

III. I don't know about any immediate ancestors; but everybody knows that the O'Donohues go back to one of the Kings of Ireland. For further details see any History of Ireland.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

Young Lady (standing before "The Belated Kid"). - Oh, I don't like it, the sky is too realistic!

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

Prof. - I don't see the analogy, Mr. B.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO MAKE AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »