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The Frenchman sees that the English servant is respectful: he does not realise that he is also disrespectful; that there is an English legend of the humorous and faithful servant, who is as much a personality as his master; the Caleb Balderstone, the Sam Weller.

Morrison contributed this anecdote to the office Legend of Balderson: "He was in Florida in his private car when they finished the opera house. When he came back and saw a plaster bust of Shakespeare over the proscenium arch, he waved his cane pompously and exclaimed: 'Take her down!

This was the legend that attracted my attention, and toward it I took my way. I stopped at the window long enough to take a hasty inventory of its contents, and from it I sized up my man. There were some goods there that came from our store; this cheered me, I took courage, walked in, and handed Mr. Jordan my card. "We have done some business with you," I said, in my blandest tones, "and Mr.

It is not therefore a contradiction when interpreters of myths sometimes connect a myth with one spiritual fact and sometimes with another. From this standpoint, we are able to find a thread to conduct us through the labyrinth of Greek myths. Let us consider the legend of Heracles.

You know you must catch your death.’ This assurance is corroborated by Mrs. Chopper, who adds, in further confirmation, a dismal legend concerning an individual of her acquaintance who, making a call under precisely parallel circumstances, and being then in the best health and spirits, expired in forty-eight hours afterwards, of a complication of inflammatory disorders.

Their famous house was the meeting-place of scholars and patrons of literature. Francis I. and his sister Margaret of Angoulême, authoress of the Heptameron, were seen there, and legend says that the king was once kept waiting by the scholar-printer while he finished correcting a proof.

A legend I am afraid it may be, in the most discreditable meaning of the term; or perhaps something worse a mere yesterday's fiction. But it is a story of some vitality, and is worthy of a place in the Edinburgh kalendar. This pair inhabited a single room; from the facts, it must have been double-bedded; and it may have been of some dimensions: but when all is said, it was a single room.

The Adapa legend takes us back to the beginning of man's career to the time when, as in the early chapters of Genesis, man stood closer to the gods than at a later time, the time when there was a constant intercourse between man and the gods, and more especially between man and his protector, Ea.

'Well, don't you ever get a twinge? she prevaricated. 'Toothache, dear? Mrs. Batty clucked her distress. 'I'll get some laudanum. You just rub it on the gum She rose. 'I have some in my medicine cupboard. I'll go and get it. She went out, and across her broad back she seemed to carry the legend, 'This is the consummation of tact.

So they fought again, and again they rested, and the Strandvarsel put the same question. 'No, said the Bonde. They fought again, and they rested, and the same question was put by the Strandvarsel. 'Yes, said the Bonde. 'It was lucky for you that you said "Yes," said the Strandvarsel, 'or I would have broken your neck. The legend goes no farther.