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Critics and Society Pall...
...room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In fact Dickens might rather like to talk with her, might find her rather charming--far more so than the literary occupant of the brass bed found her book. Butterfly amours on damasque lawns beneath fragile moons, center stage, are likely to pall at times, especially when there are David Copperfields to visit with as the London Mail swings down the Dover Road...
...procession consisted of a Grand Marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, assistants with craped staves and torches; a coffin, six feet long, inscribed "Football, 1860," borne by four pall bearers: the Chaplain, with a very large craped that, and huge eye-glasses; the class, wearing invalied beavers inscribed "63," and having crape tied on the right leg. Behind the coffin were the gravestones made of wood, painted black, with the following inscription in white letters: (Headstone) HIC JACET FOOTBALL FIGHTUM AET LX YRS OBIIT, JULY 2, '60. RESURGAT (Footstone) FOOTBALL, 1860 IN MEMORLAM, (over a winged skull...
...torches dimly burning. With pall and bier that's borne by the crew...
...Someone proposed a "regular I. C. S. for Sims, fellows, and make it good." In the enthusiasm of the moment, I felt my resolution born anew. It was not too late! I would start now, and I would succeed! Some day I too would come home, put my dinner pall on the table, and say. "Little woman, don't worry about that new dress--I'm making real money...