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III. She loves the cool, the silent eve, Where no false shows of life deceive, Beneath the lunar ray. Here folly drops each vain disguise; Nor sport her gaily colour'd dyes, As in the beam of day. IV. O Pallas! queen of ev'ry art, That glads the sense, and mends the heart, Blest source of purer joys! In ev'ry form of beauty bright, That captivates the mental sight With pleasure and surprise;
"Well, he went again to his work, and thought he'd have better luck; but it was still the ould game three shovelfuls would come in for ev'ry one he'd throw out; and now he began, in earnest, to feel something about his heart that he didn't like, bekase he couldn't, for the life of him, help thinking of the three hundred and sixty-four heads, and the empty hook.
The hunter and the Little Giant, who appeared at the head of the pass, also gave it two bullets apiece, and then the monster toppled over not far from their fire, and after panting a little, lay still. The Little Giant surveyed the great beast with wonder. "The biggest I ever saw," he said, "an' it took nine bullets to bring him down, provided you hit him ev'ry time you fired, young William.
"They had their mill here, ye kin see the brick work yonder. They hauled out the lumber by teams past my place. The stea'mill was here more'n two years. They hauled the sawdust out of the way and dumped it in ev'ry holler, jest as it come handy." "What a lot there is of it!" murmured Nan, sniffing doubtfully at the rather unpleasant odor of the sawdust.
Poor brute, I guess he thought Bill was goin' to heaven and leavin' him behind ev'ry time the nigger started for the masthead. "I most always," continued Cap'n Amazon, "seen to it myself that the dog was chained when Bill was likely to go aloft. I liked that dog. He was a gentleman, if he was black. And Bill was a good seaman, and with a short tongue.
They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No Slackness there was found. And many a gallant Gentleman Lay gasping on the Ground. With that there came an Arrow keen Out of an English Bow, Which struck Earl Dowglas to the Heart A deep and deadly Blow. AEneas was wounded after the same Manner by an unknown Hand in the midst of a Parly.
"'Tis 'Tony, here! and 'Tony, there! iv'ry blissid minute av th' day. An' 'tis movin' trunks an' boxes, and the like Mis' Grace should hire a nelephant at this time of the year, an' so I tell her. An' what with these here foreigners too bad 'cess to them! I have to chase ev'ry rag tag and bobtail on the place, so I do " "Not tramps again, Tony?" cried Jennie Stone. "'Tis worse.
You, sir, will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there IS such a word in the dictionary as hairdressers. 'Well, but suppose he wasn't a hairdresser, suggested Sam. 'Wy then, sir, be parliamentary and call him vun all the more, returned his father. 'In the same vay as ev'ry gen'lman in another place is a Honourable, ev'ry barber in this place is a hairdresser.
There is a mystery in human hearts, And though we be encircled by a host Of those who love us well, and are beloved, To ev'ry one of us, from time to time, There comes a sense of utter loneliness. Our dearest friend is "stranger" to our joy, And can not realize our bitterness. "There is not one who really understands, Not one to enter into all I feel," Such is the cry of each of us in turn.
Ev'ry night 'nd mornin' we prayed God to save our darlin'; but one evenin' when I come up from the wood-lot, the Old Man wuz restless 'nd his face wuz hot 'nd he talked in his sleep. Maybe you've been through it yourself, maybe you've tended a child that's down with the fever; if so, maybe you know what we went through, Lizzie 'nd me.
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