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Updated: June 16, 2025
'That's a stupid affair with yonder fir tree, said the potsherds. You see, potsherds think everything is stupid. 'When one is in the dust-cart, they said, 'one ought not to give one's self airs and wear tinsel.
Dead men, they say, tell no tales; potsherds are as truthful and eloquent as they are, for the very reason that, once broken, they are dead and done with, and are allowed to lie quiet in their rubbish heaps.
You may, perhaps, induce many potters to manufacture fissured pots, and many amateurs of clay to buy them; but the nation is, through the whole business so encouraged, rich by the addition to its wealth of so many potsherds, and there an end.
Fame I would have parted with; but to be the sport of blackguards to be pelted with potsherds and dirt and ordure is not this worse than death? 'There is no rest for me in my age, unless I join Luther; and I cannot, for I cannot accept his doctrines.
To the left is a square garden-plot, allowing of not more than four long steps in each direction, a garden of black soil, with trellises bereft of vines, and where, in default of vegetation under the shade of two trees, papers collect, old rags, potsherds, bits of mortar fallen from the roof; a barren ground, where time has shed on the walls, and on the trunks and branches of the trees, a powdery deposit like cold soot.
Portions of broken earthen-ware pots were also used for practising writing upon, and in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods lists of goods, and business letters, and the receipts given by the tax-gatherers, were written upon potsherds.
Moreover, outside the sea-borne culture of the Mediterranean, pottery does not travel far: its uses are domestic, not commercial. John Gilpin's fate is typical of those who would carry things on horseback in bottles. Like words, however, potsherds enlighten us more about frontiers and contrasts than about uniformities. They are terribly provincial and tell their tale with a twang.
The course of human events was not changed; the great world rolled on, while Priscilla Winthrop went home to a broken shrine to sit among the potsherds. "And Yet a Fool" The exchanges that come to a country newspaper like ours become familiar friends as the years pass.
From the stove opens a very long, narrow house, where cool genera are "plumping," laid out on moss and potsherds; many of them have burst into strong growth. Pleiones are flowering freely as they lie. This farmer's crops come to harvest faster than he can attend to them.
He and Tom were about to go hunting with their electric rifles. "Artifacts are things made by the Indians or whatever members of the race who built the ancient cities were called such as household articles, vases, ornaments, tools and so on. Anything made by artificial means is called an artifact." "And potsherds are things with those Chinese laundry ticket scratches on them," added Tom.
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