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Calvin McDonald's offered me a job on The American Flag." "What will you do? Write editorials or poetry?" his father asked. Francisco flushed. "I'll be a copy boy to start with.... And there's no harm in writing poetry. Uncle Ben does it himself." It was Benito's turn to redden. "Better let the boy have his way," he said hastily. "Journalism's quite an education in itself."
I did not keep a copy of my own letter, and I have forgotten everything that was in it, except the first sentence, in which I told Peter I was awful glad he was getting better. Peter's delight on receiving our letters knew no bounds. He insisted on answering them and his letter, painstakingly disinfected, was duly delivered to us.
A fortnight or so ago, by your aid, my enemies secured a copy of a certain document which has never left yonder safe. To-night Mr. Flockart has discovered you again tampering with my safe, and with my own ears I heard you utter defiance. You are more devoted to your lover than to me, and you are supplying him with copies of my papers." "That is untrue, dad," protested the girl reproachfully.
"Will you look at the Gineral, Jim?" repeated Mrs. O'Callaghan. "I will," said Jim. Jim was enterprising. Far more enterprising than anybody gave him credit for. He had been set to copy the General, and that night as he lay down to sleep he resolved to outdo Pat and Mike.
I have heard that this lady had so little regard for the art in which her husband excelled, that on his presenting her with a copy of verses, after the wedding was over, she crumpled them up and put them into her pocket unread.
Sherman gave the same energy to make the campaign a success that he would or could have done if it had been ordered by himself. I make this statement here to correct an impression which was circulated at the close of the war to Sherman's prejudice, and for which there was no fair foundation. MAJOR-GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN: Enclosed herewith I send you copy of instructions to Major-General Thomas.
Our man at Police Headquarters has left. I am going to send you up there in his place. You can run there all you want to, and you will want to all you can. It is a place that needs a man who will run to get his copy in and tell the truth and stick to it. You will find plenty of fighting there. But don't go knocking people down unless you have to."
So I've a great mind to indulge you with an important idea, suggestion, discovery. Harkee, friend!" and he put on an air of sentimental mystery, not a bad copy of our old acquaintance, Mr. Charles "what if the the individual should not be an old lady at all?" "What! The old gentleman's wife?" "Wife? Ahem! more jumping at conclusions. No; let us keep on the safe side, and call her the individual.
With this as an explanation, I shall copy the original account of the dream as nearly as possible, making a few corrections of the barbarous language I used in the half-asleep state. At Clark University, 1912-1913. On the night of August 9, 1914, I went to bed at 11.40 o'clock and was soon asleep.
As the aggregate result of this modern Roman education there sprang up the new idea of "humanity," as it was called, which consisted partly of a more or less superficial appropriation of the aesthetic culture of the Hellenes, partly of a privileged Latin culture as an imitation or mutilated copy of the Greek.
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