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Tharfor the men of that countre, For swa fele thar mellyt wer, Callit it the "Dowglas Lardner." Syne tuk he salt, as Ic hard tell, And ded horss, and sordid the well. And brynt all, owtakyn stane; And is forth, with his menye, gayne Till his resett; for him thoucht weill, Giff he had haldyn the caslell, It had bene assegyt raith; And that him thoucht to mekill waith.
Macintosh Mackay breakfasted, and inspected my curious Irish MS., which Dr. Brinkley gave me. Mr. Mackay, I should say Doctor, who well deserved the name, reads it with tolerable ease, so I hope to knock the marrow out of the bone with his assistance. I came home and despatched proof-sheets and revises for Dr. Lardner.
Lardner gives numerous and extended illustrations of the supposed influence of the moon on the growth of grain, on wine-making, on the color of the complexion, on putrefaction, on the size of shell-fish, on the quantity of marrow in the bones of animals, on the number of births, on mental derangement, and other human maladies, etc., etc.
He did not think it quite feminine or amiable, but still it was entertaining: there was also something flattering in being exempted from this general reprobation and ridicule. Miss Lardner was intolerant of all insipid people flats, as she called them.
He was not actually thinking of the legend; to be precise, he was thinking of Betty Lardner, but he was suddenly reminded of it by a boatman pressing him for his custom. "Yes," he said abruptly. "I will hire your boat if you will row me out to the sunken village. I want to look at it." The Welshman eyed him suspiciously, perceived that he was not joking, and shook his head.
Dionysius Lardner. Cadell came to breakfast. Poor fellow, he looks like one who had been overworked; and the difficulty of keeping paper-makers up to printers, printers up to draughtsmen, artists to engravers, and the whole party to time, requires the utmost exertion. He has actually ordered new plates, although the steel ones which we employ are supposed to throw off 30,000 without injury.
Lardner, who had originally been somewhat sceptical about the powers of the locomotive, now promulgated the idea that a railway constructed with rising and falling gradients would be practically as easy to work as a line perfectly level. Mr. Badnell went even beyond him, for he held that an undulating railway was much better than a level one for purposes of working.
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM. "Limpy." Little, Brown. KARR, LOUISE. Trouble. Himebaugh and Browne. KELLERHOUSE, LUCY CHARLTON. *Forest Fancies. Duffield. KIRK, R. G. White Monarch and the Gas-House Pup. Little, Brown. KIRKLAND, WINIFRED. *My Little Town. Dutton. LAIT, JACK. Gus the Bus and Evelyn, the Exquisite Checker. LARDNER, RING W. Gullible's Travels. Bobbs-Merrill. LEACOCK, STEPHEN. Frenzied Fiction.
* Col. iv. 14. 2Tim. iv. 11. Philem. 24. + Lardner, Cred. vol. viii. P.291, et seq. These considerations are not to be neglected: but of an argument concerning the genuineness of ancient writings, the substance, undoubtedly, and strength, is ancient testimony.
The legend had received an unexpected boom in the drowning of Roberts, which had just occurred. Roberts was a fisherman who had recently come from the South. One calm day in February he had rowed out into the bay in fulfilment of a drunken boast. He was drowned three days before Midsummer. After dinner young Cargill forgot about it. He forgot almost everything except Betty Lardner.
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