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Plays personfied - Howard Carroll, "Fresh, the American;" Secretary Folger, "The Fool's Revenge;" Ben Butler, "Rip Van Winkle;" President Arthur, "The Parvenu;" Roscoe Conkling, "Richelieu;" Samuel J. Tilden, "Patience." - [Puck...
...seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston was the "Hub," and he had only been living on the end of one of the spokes. Now Butterfield was no fool. It is true he had a few remnants of hay-seed in his hair and wore a hat and a suit of clothes that attracted more attention on Tremont street than he expected, but he had a fair allowance of brains under his hat, and a pair of shears...
...sermon yesterday Beecher called the present Congress the "fool Congress," for cutting off the emigration of the Chinese, who he said were necessary to do the "vulgar" work...
...lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there was no escape. I must be content with pointing out the peculiar dangers from fire that thus threaten our colleges. I noticed them when I was myself an undergraduate, but my attention has been again aroused...
...other. I tell you when the fellows got caught in anything years ago, they died game every time. They didn't say that it wasn't all right for us to catch them. They found out what the fine was, and antied up like men without any fooling. Some fun for us to catch a man like that. There isn't any sense in the little tricks that they do now-a-days, hooking a barber's sign now and then, and then acting as if they were scared to death over it. Now, the idea of blowing...