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English Readings. Chaucer's Knight's Tale (continued). Professor Child, Sever...
Professor Child will read Chaucer's Knights Tale this evening at Sever...
...awful, fiendful tale. I shudder to repeat it, yet I will...
Befits the tale of him who, fierce erewhile...
This, too, awakened thunders of applause, the metre being especially commended. A sweet little waif called "A HARD CASE," was then read and accepted. I slept during the greater part of the next piece, which was entitled "A TALE OF THE ALEUTIANS," by the author of "WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ELOPING," but was roused by the voice of the chief demon, saying, "Awake, fellow exhibitors, awake, and let us listen to the Mendacities of the Hebdomad!!" With hungry eyes they gathered round him and listened...