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Meagre as the fare was for a hungry boy, there was more variety than he had expected, and something in the simple preparation touched him, and quieted his anger. "Where did this come from?" he asked, taking in the unaccustomed morsel of apple with two eager bites. "I tell you, that is good!" "Sally Calkins gave it to me last night. She got one give to her somewhere."

Calkins defines a sense of humor as "enjoyment of an unessential incongruity.... This incongruity must be, as has been said, an unessential one, else the mood of the observer changes from happiness to unhappiness, and the comic becomes the pathetic.

"Consumption is bad, ver' bad for Canadians," said Jacques, a half-hour later, picking his words with care. Ray grinned, but made no reply. "Night air is good; but Ah don' lak dese dese beeg microbes eet bring in." By Franklin W. Calkins A pet grizzly bear had been for a number of years a feature at Hartranft's.

C. G. Calkins, the navigator of the Olympia, who came under my personal observation, being on the bridge with me throughout the entire action, and giving the ranges to the guns with an accuracy that was proved by the excellence of the firing. “On May 2d, the day following the engagement, the squadron again went to Cavite, where it remained.

Now, you take a fresh start with me to-morrow." "Of course I'm going to try." "And it isn't as if I was regular out-and-out sinful. My adopted father, Ezra Calkins, he's a good man. But, now I think of it, I don't know what church he ever did belong to.

Everett was saying; "I hope for returned vigor in time; but there must be long weeks of patience before he will be ready for his old employment." "Do you know of whom he is speaking?" Gracie asked. "I fancy it is that Calkins boy, the one with the broken limb. He is deeply interested in the poor fellow, and is trying to plan employment of some less wearing sort for him, I believe. Dr.

While still a little boy he came with his parents to Vermont. My mother's maiden name was Phœbe Calkins, born near St. Albans of Welch parents, and, being left an orphan while yet in very tender years, she was given away to be reared by people who provided food and clothes, but permitted her to grow up to womanhood without knowing how to read or write.

In her chosen field of experimental psychology she has achieved results attained by no one else, and her work has a Continental reputation. Professor Calkins, the head of the Department, is one of the distinguished alumnae of Smith College. She has also passed Harvard's examination for the Doctor's degree; but Harvard does not yet confer its degree upon women.

"There's a chance!" she said, breathless with speed and eagerness; "Sallie Calkins, there's a chance, and you'd never guess how. Dirk he wants me to go to a show with him this very night! He's got tickets. It is a big show, where all the grand folks go. It is in the very biggest hall in this city, and Dirk he says I am to go.

After he went away, Sallie sat long at her sewing, making all alone, by a dim light, one of the most heroic little sacrifices that was ever offered "in His name." To fully understand it, you must know that Mark Calkins had recovered sufficiently to take his place in the office where Dr.