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...saying, Ching Wagg, the chief youth of the village, turned his steps toward the hut of the new arrivals. As he passed the spring in the market-place his face brightened, and with a smile he bowed low toward the damsels, who with Loe Hie at their head, sat in friendly chat around the spring. Then, with a heart overflowing with good-humor toward all the world, which, after all, means only satisfaction with one's self, he went...
...Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business is done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided to be the most nutritious. You would have complete control of the market, because you would be sure to have ninety-five per cent of the small boys living within a radius of three miles. Prices could be arranged to suit the demand, varying inversely as the laziness of the boys, and directly as the laziness of the players; say twenty-five...
...rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market baskets in their hands. No, Rembrandt, we cannot follow you; you loved nature, but it was a vulgar nature. The English are bad also, especially Turner; he is too landscapy. If I had only a head to paint, I might take the Florentines as masters, but I must give Antigone...
This policy, on business principles, is, no doubt, right enough. Whether it is just, we do not say. Practically it is making our market of the necessities of a poor man, and saying, "This is all we'll give. Take it, or leave it," - and he, thinking this half-loaf better than no bread, accepts; and allows us to say with pride, "You see, men are glad to come here, even when we don't pay anything worth mentioning...
...years to aid in its support. To be sure, it is easier to pay five dollars a year for ten years than to pay fifty dollars down; but the sum paid is none the less fifty dollars, and would buy fifty dollars worth of any commodity in the market...