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They yawned in each other's faces, consulted the almanac, looked at the clock, waited for meal-time; and the horizon was ever the same fields in front, the church to the right, a screen of poplars to the left, their tops swaying incessantly in the hazy atmosphere with a melancholy air. Habits which they formerly tolerated now gave them annoyance.
The rover much wanted a skilful navigator, and thinking that he would prefer a life of comparative freedom at sea to slavery on shore, he repurchased him, and carried him on board the brig. He was rather disappointed, however, to find that, without a quadrant or nautical almanac, the captain could be of very little use to them in that way.
"Because the State taxes it so heavily; but there's no tax on borrowed money. The fellow who lends pays that." "If I loan money do I have to pay taxes on it when I haven't got it?" "Certainly, and you pay just the same if there's no prospect of its ever being repaid." "That's funny." "Funny! Why, our Massachusetts tax laws are funnier than a comic almanac, and about as sensible."
His plan was that each should make a large number; then they would compare, select the best and publish them in the second volume of the 'Almanac'. Schiller was captivated by the idea, and 'Xenia' now became the order of the day. It was soon decided not to restrict them to the offensive journals, but to take a shot wherever there was a mark.
"As a Catholic, we call upon the Catholic Bishop and clergy of New York to come forth from the darkness, folly, and superstition of the tenth century. They live in the nineteenth. There can be no mistake about it, they will be convinced of this fact if they look into the almanac....
Eve, turning over everything in the whole printing house, had found a collection of figures for printing a "Shepherd's Calendar," a kind of almanac meant for those who cannot read, letterpress being replaced by symbols, signs, and pictures in colored inks, red, black and blue.
Peter are noticed as indicating the 29th of June; the scales of St. Michael are seen at the end of September. St. Catherine's wheel figures in the middle of November, immediately under it being the somewhat large cross of St. Andrew. Other symbols will doubtless be recognized on this interesting relic. The study of the almanac is not now one of the chief diversions of the fair sex.
There was a huge writing-table a double table at which Paul and Steinmetz were seated. There were sundry stationery cases and an almanac or so suspended on the walls, which were oaken panels. A large white stove common to all Russian rooms stood against the wall. The room had no less than three doors, with a handle on no one of them. Each door opened with a key, like a cupboard.
He knew how to write, though he took the greatest liberties with spelling; he knew how to read and understood what he read, provided the reading presented no more serious literary difficulties than occurred in the stories in the almanac. He was the first of his line to allow himself to be tempted by the town and he lived to regret it.
This many-sided American printer, almanac maker, writer, scientist, and philosopher by the variety of his abilities as well as by the charm of his manner seemed to have found his real mission in the diplomatic field, where he could serve his country and at the same time, with credit to himself, preach his own doctrines.
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