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It was written by a young gentleman who has since taken several silver cups for theatrical prize-addresses, full of phoenixes, and the Greek classics from Lempriere. He has also been a large contributor to those beautifully printed, useful, and fashionable hebdomadals, the Milliners' Literary Gazette, Young Ladies' Companion, et id genus omne. The ode ran thus:
And then, as if something had given way within him, he spoke long and bitterly. It was the only time I ever heard him discuss the conditions and hardships of his trade. "Dey get id all," he said, "dey get id by adverdisement, nod by work. Dey dake it away from us, who lofe our boods. Id gomes to this bresently I haf no work. Every year id gets less you will see."
"How long has she been like this?" said Marcella, drawing the door cautiously to behind her. "About fourteen month," said the woman, hopelessly. "An' none of us knows why. She was such a neat, pretty girl when she married 'im an' ee such a steady fellow. An' I've done my best. I've talked to 'er, an' I've 'id 'er 'at an' her walking things, an' taken 'er money out of 'er pockets.
"Is it not taboo among all civilized peoples, including your own, to invent and spread lies about those who wish you only well?" It was useless to argue, Cameron saw. He turned, taking Joyce's arm, and allowed Sal Karone to lead them back to their rooms. As they paused at the doorway the Id spoke without expression on his dark face. "This is not a good thing, Cameron Wilder.
"Vos it a cidy alretty yet, or vos it a village?" "Oh, yer gol dern ignerent critter Er er excuse me, sir! I fergot whut I wuz sayin', dam my skin ef I didn't! Varmont is a State, an' one of ther smartest gol derned States in ther Union, by gum!" "Vos dot so? I subbose you exbect dot Varmont vos peen large enough to be a cidy britty soon, ain'd id?" "Wal, gol blame my eyes!
I asked her if she picked them herself. "Och thin and shure I've the childher to do that saam," said she. And what wonderful music must the voice of her youth have been! It was deep of intonation and heartfelt, rich and smooth and thrilling yet, after fifty years of poverty and toil. "And id's enough of thim that's in id!" she added, with a curious air of satisfaction and reflectiveness.
He stroked the satin head, and said in his gentlest voice, 'How do you do, Lizzie? will you give me a kiss? She put up her little bud of a mouth, and then retreating a little and glancing down at her frock, said, 'Dit id my noo fock. I put it on 'tod you wad toming. Tally taid you wouldn't 'ook at it. 'Hush, hush, Lizzie, little gells must be seen and not heard, said Mrs.
Now, believe one thing, and inculcate it upon your minds, and when in this book you shall only have gleaned, gathered, extracted, and learned this one principle of truth, look upon yourself as a lucky man namely, that a man can never dispense with his nose, id est, that a man will always be snotty that is to say, he will remain a man, and thus will continue throughout all future centuries to laugh and drink, to find himself in his shirt without feeling either better or worse there, and will have the same occupations.
I am still more sorry that he is in love with her; for that will take him out of good company, and sink him into bad; such as fiddlers, pipers, and 'id genus omne'; most unedifying and unbecoming company for a man of fashion! Lady Chesterfield makes you a thousand compliments. Adieu, my dear child. GREENWICH, June 10, O. S. 1751
'There is enough glean water in the tay's rainfall to wash it off, Darco answered. 'Did you efer read "The Orichinal"? 'No, said Paul. 'The man who wrote it vos so healthy that he nefer hat need to wash himself. His skin was too bure to hold dirt. 'Filthy beggar! said Paul. 'I make it a baraple, Darco declared. 'Id is true of the immordal soul.
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