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The next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST A STATUE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

DEAR COUSIN SAM, - Although you have never been to college, you may be interested in knowing something of the gentlemen who teach the young ideas to shoot. I can assure you, they are remarkable in many ways, - a "gem" puzzle not to be solved at least half the time. As...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

"It was pretty hard; but I think I did the original composition well, - something like this, 'la la fa re do si mi, &c.'"

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMI-ANNUAL CONVERSATION. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

No. 5 r. - "No, I am quite sure that he did n't. Don't you remember that fellow who was always having his brothers poisoned? Well, he came just before the man with the game leg, who went to Pope what's-his-number, to get a divorce from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMI-ANNUAL CONVERSATION. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

The last one is "Jessie," and Jessie appears to be a New Hampshire girl that he met when he was on that tramp last summer. He talks about her as if she were a dryad, or naiad, or something of the sort, and exhibits a cardinal flower that he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOVER'S FRIEND. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »