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Pale icicles are frozen round my grate...
...Bill kin put a stitch in the worst rip in the biler [here he winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be off some time Thursday, that's day after to-morrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would advise you to be round then." Well, the long and short is, it was cards and whiskey between the conductor, the station-man, Bill the engineer, the fireman, and myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready to start, if we only...
...baby was calming down again, we would come to another post and have to surrender another coupon and move back to the palace-car, I, of course, moving the old lady, bab and baggage, every time. By and by we came to a corner, and on going round it saw a calf on the track. It did not move at our approach, but only stared and continued to graze coolly on the rails and sleepers. The train came to a stop, which was not very hard, considering its rate. Then the conductor and Bill and the fireman spent an hour...
...Round Table publishes a long article against dancing. The writer thinks that the introduction of this profane amusement into the mixed college society of the West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...
...when not wanted is always round...