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Updated: June 17, 2025
Listen to this now. Here's one I'm fond of." He took the book out of Neal's hand, and read him "Holy Willie's Prayer." His dry intonation', his perfect rendering of the dialect of the poem, the sly twinkle of his eyes as he read, added exquisite malice to the satire.
Some of the other poems will be mentioned afterwards; meantime we have to consider another crisis in his life some aspects of his nature less pleasing, some episodes in his career dark and unlovely. Speaking of the effect Holy Willie's Prayer had on the kirk-session, he says that they actually held three meetings to see if their holy artillery could be pointed against profane rhymers.
In our family we have always relished Oliver Herford's nonsense rhymes, including the account of Willie's displeasure with his goat: "I do not like my billy goat, I wish that he was dead; Because he kicked me, so he did, He kicked me with his head." Well, these Parecis Indians enthusiastically play football with their heads.
The rabbit being laid in Willie's lap, Ollie started off once more, running as fast as she could to make up for lost time. In a few minutes she reached the village. The sugar was soon bought and tucked away in the basket.
Willie's shaggy hair had been cut, and the curtain of dark brown locks being turned aside revealed a well-shaped forehead whiter than his cheeks. He had lost something of the freedom of his motions; for the new garments sat uneasily upon him, and he wore them with an air of constraint.
As Celestina's nephew and Willie's guest he had credentials enough to assure him of a welcome, and for an interval these sufficed to give him an enviable entrée; but after a few calls, his winning personality secured for him a place of his own.
"Your brother is going to Scotland?" "Yes. Ramsden has such a high opinion of the schools up there. I did say that Scotland was a long way off, and he said yes, that had occurred to him, but that we must make sacrifices for Willie's good. He was very brave and cheerful about it. Well, I mustn't stay.
"They're sign-boards t' point th' way that iverybody knows as well as th' nose on his face!" "Good-by," Anna said, as they prepared to leave. "Good-by, an' God save ye both kindly," were Willie's parting words. He adjusted the wire protectors to his eyes and the sojourners went on down the road. They found a mossy bank and unpacked their dinner. "Quare, isn't he?" Jamie said.
Over Willie's grave is erected a beautiful marble monument, designed and executed by the officers and soldiers, of that battalion which claimed him as a sergeant and comrade. During the summer and fall of 1863 Major-General S. A. Hurlbut was in command at Memphis. He supplied me copies of all dispatches from Washington, and all the information he possessed of the events about Chattanooga.
"I hear," remarked Lady Merceron a few days later, "that one of Mr. Prime's friends has left him not Willie's young lady the other." "Has she?" asked Charlie. No one pursued the subject, and, after a moment's pause, Mrs. Marland, who was sitting next to Charlie, asked him in a low voice whether he had been to the Pool that evening . "No," answered Charlie. "I don't go every night."
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