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With an appetite sharpened by a more than orthodox fast, I was watching the operation most devoutly; and the savory odor which rose from the sputtering morsel awakened anticipations which only a ferociously hungry man can imagine. But I was doomed to illustrate the words of the Scottish bard: "The best laid plans of mice or men Gang aft aglee."
It was drawing towards midnight, in the month of October, when the leaves in the forest had become brown and yellow, and with a hard sound rustled upon each other, that young Scott called together his retainers, and addressing them, said "Look ye, friends, is it not a crying sin and a national shame to see things going aglee as they are doing?
The commander of the "Trans-Mississippi Department" had the power to destroy the last hope of the Confederate cause, and exercised it with all the success of Bazaine at Metz. "The affairs of mice and men aft gang aglee," from sheer stupidity and pig-headed obstinacy.
He would have let them go by, feeling himself such a scare-crow as they might think a blot upon them; but he remembered that Charles Hayward had his ticket, and as he looked at himself, he doubted whether he should be let into a strange church. 'Paul! Paul Blackthorn! called Harold, with a voice all aglee. 'Well! said Paul, 'what do you want of me? 'Come on, and you'll see.
I generally get a new hat once a week, and as for gloves, if anybody likes me " That night in her musty bedroom Glory wrote home while little Slyboots slept: "'The best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft aglee. Witness me! "I intended to send you some Christmas presents, but the snow has been so industrious that not a mouse has stirred if he could help it.
On arriving at the old quarters, we found the negroes still at work on the redoubt, which they had nearly completed. The Twenty-third Kentucky were camped near us. We now supposed that we would be allowed at least a short respite after our previous three weeks' hard marching; but in this we were mistaken. And, as the old Scotch proverb runs "The best laid plans of men and mice Oft gang aglee."
But he was plainly disturbed, and when the little white sphere made its flight it went sadly aglee and dropped to earth far to the right of the green, and where rough and cuppy ground made exact putting well-nigh impossible.
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