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Lacon wouldn't oppose your divorcing him, while my my present wife might divorce me; after which you and I could marry again. Isn't that it, sir?" The older man nodded assent. "It's well to use plain English when we can." Chip continued to measure the Wetterhorn with his eye. "Rather comic the whole thing would be, wouldn't it?" "Possibly," Lacon replied, imperturbably.
"Wait here a minute," spoke Andy, and he went back to his friends. Andy told them of meeting Luke, and the whereabouts of the Big Show. Just then the conductor came into the car, and they had to make a rapid decision. "Let us get to Baltimore, anyway," suggested the clown. "It's nearer home and my wife." Andy paid their fares. Miss Starr briefly told the conductor of their mishaps at Lacon.
Aside from the palpable improbability of this "Peoria truce," it should be noted that Lincoln accepted an invitation to speak at Lacon next day, without so much as referring to this agreement, while Douglas continued his campaign with unremitting energy. If Douglas exhibited fear of an adversary at this time, it is the only instance in his career.
Then, rather earlier in the century, a clergyman, who ruined himself by gambling, ran away from his debts to America, and at last blew his brains out, felt peculiarly qualified to lecture mankind on moral prudence. He wrote a little book in 1820; called Lacon; or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think. It is an awful example to anybody who is tempted to try his hand at an aphorism.
Nay, but an if thou wilt come, thou shalt tread here the soft feathered fern, and flowering thyme, and beneath thee shall be strown the skins of she-goats, four times more soft than the fleeces of thy lambs. And I will set out eight bowls of milk for Pan, and eight bowls full of the richest honeycombs. Lacon.
No other idyl of Theocritus is so frankly true to the rough side of rustic manners. The scene is in Southern Italy. Comatas. Goats of mine, keep clear of that notorious shepherd of Sibyrtas, that Lacon; he stole my goat-skin yesterday. Lacon. Will ye never leave the well-head? Off, my lambs, see ye not Comatas; him that lately stole my shepherd's pipe? Comatas.
The author of "Lacon" says "that if all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, there would be very little blood spilt in that way;" and it was certainly astonishing to compare the zeal with which Mr. Bobus busied himself about this "affair" with that testified by him on another occasion when he himself was more immediately concerned. The morning came. Mr.
Lacon. Nay, nor wild apples to acorns, for acorns are bitter in the oaken rind, but apples are sweet as honey. Comatas. Soon will I give my maiden a ring-dove for a gift; I will take it from the juniper tree, for there it is brooding. Lacon. But I will give my darling a soft fleece to make a cloak, a free gift, when I shear the black ewe. Comatas.
We have had many a rural bard since Theocritus 'watched the visionary flocks, but you are the only one of them all who has spoken the sincere Doric. Yours is the talk of the byre and the plough-tail; yours is that large utterance of the early hinds. Even Theocritus minces matters, save where Lacon and Comatas quite outdo the swains of Ayrshire.
They had to cut out one or two towns here and there, on account of bad roads and accidents. Now the show had reached Lacon, and after more trouble found itself stalled. To be "stalled," Andy had learned was to be very nearly stranded. No salaries had been paid for a full fortnight. Some of the performers had gotten out executions against the show.
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