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This Father L'hoir must have been a noble soul to write so lovingly; we wish that space permitted us to give his letters to the reader. Amongst the papers left by Father Hecker we found one carefully preserved, bearing date at St. Mary's, Clapham, the feast of St. It is a manuscript of thirty-nine closely-written pages of letter-paper.
There were great houses situated in beautiful gardens and parks wherein resided some of the great City merchants, county families, the leaders in old days of the influential "Clapham sect."
D is a straight wooden pointer, 12 in. long, having a piece of brass tube, E, attached, and a small opening at J, into which is fixed the point of a common pin by which to set the pointer in declination. H is a nut to clamp pointer in position. By this simple toy affair I have often picked up the planet Venus at midday when visible to the naked eye. T.R. Clapham in English Mechanic.
"Come, Watson, for we have a good day's work before us in town." Mr. Joseph Harrison drove us down to the station, and we were soon whirling up in a Portsmouth train. Holmes was sunk in profound thought, and hardly opened his mouth until we had passed Clapham Junction.
Nothing, he opined, would be simpler, or more agreeable, than to drive out or possibly take a train to some wild spot in the vicinity of London Clapham Common perhaps and spend a day among the pheasants. My American friend wanted to kill an English pheasant. He had heard much of them as the best of game-birds. He had eaten them, much refrigerated, in New York and found them good.
Burr's cat, who had travelled by request in a hamper to her married niece's at Clapham, in charge of Michael Ragstroar, would return and would then promptly have kittens in spite of doubtful sex-qualifications suggested by the name of Tommy; which kittens would belong to Dave and Dolly respectively, choice being made as soon as ever it was seen what colour they meant to be.
Haven't I run all over Clapham, Brixton, and Wandsworth to say nothing of an occasional incursion upon Putney in order to procure you half-a-dozen pupils? And the very first favour I demand of you, which is only the gift of this clever little hand, you have the audacity to refuse me point-blank."
Cockayne and her two elder daughters were exhausted, and threw themselves into seats, and vowed that Paris was the most tiring place on the face of the earth. "My dear," said Mr. Cockayne, addressing his wife, "people find Paris fatiguing because they walk about the streets all day, and give themselves no rest. If we did the same thing at Clapham "
The nearest to it ever I got was the Bishop of Clapham." "Explain yourself, Gustavus, I beg." "He used to ask for a nip sometimes before retiring, Mr. Ferdinand." "A nip, Gustavus?" "Warm water, with a slice of toast in it. But he was only what they call a suburban bishop, Mr. Ferdinand." "Ah! a nip is hardly on all fours with a bradawl, Gustavus." "P'r'aps not, Mr.
These nickel shows are getting on my nerves. It seems to me that if I have to look at one more Western picture about a fool girl with her hair in a braid riding a show horse in the wilds of Clapham Junction and being rescued from a band of almost-Indians by the handsome, but despised Eastern tenderfoot, or if I see one more of those historical pictures, with the women wearing costumes that are a pass between early Egyptian and late State Street, I know I'll get hysterics and have to be carried shrieking, up the aisle.
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