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...many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging from stern deans (Dr. Fell) to crooked stewards (Jack Horner) to lovely chippies (Alice, or Elsie, Marley). Everyone knows that my pretty maid said: "I'm going a-milking, sir." But in 1698 some of the lines...
...Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night, but more often the fire-gutted shell...
Paula Budlong again presents one of her sketches of human irrationality, the theme this time being an old maid's hatred of her father and the responsibility of caring for him. The story is not very complex, not, in fact, as complex as her previously published ghoulish stories. From the first, one knows the inevitable result of her plot, but, as in Gide's Immoralist, this element of inexorability adds in power what it takes away in dramatic tension. Miss Budlong uses her details well and her narrative is clear, with the exception of an unintentionally misleading last paragraph...
JEAN DE METZ, squire, one of the men who accompanied her to Chinon to see the Dauphin (later Charles VII): "I said to her, 'What are you doing here, my dear?' . . . and the Maid answered me: 'Before mid-Lent I must be with the King, even if I have to wear my legs down to the knees. For there is no one on earth, be he king or duke or the King of Scotland's daughter or anyone else, who can restore the kingdom of France, and he will have no help except through...
First with the News. In Bristol, Va., the Herald-Courier's circulation department received an apologetic cancellation notice: "We are stopping the paper because our maid won't prepare breakfast until she has read it, and this makes us late for our appointments...