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The first of the above terms, Eocene, is derived from eos, dawn, and cainos, recent, because the fossil shells of this period contain an extremely small proportion of living species, which may be looked upon as indicating the dawn of the existing state of the testaceous fauna, no recent species having been detected in the older or secondary rocks.
"Old Pfeiler" we called him.... Pfeiler had attended one of Spalton's lectures at Chicago. Afterward, he had come up front and asked the lecturer if he could make a place for him at Eos ... that he was out of a job ... starving ... a poor German scholar ... formerly, in better days, a man of much wealth and travel.... He had spent his last nickel for admission to Spalton's lecture.
Prince Albert's greyhound Eos his companion from his fourteenth to his twenty-fifth year, his avant courier when he came as a bridegroom to claim his bride was found dead, without previous symptom of illness. She lies buried on the top of the bank above the Slopes, and a bronze model of her marks the spot. On the 6th of August the Queen's second son was born at Windsor Castle.
I come on board the Eos, and I ask him at your hands, Captain Reud. Is that person with the discoloured countenance my friend's son? Certainly not. Is that other person his son a disgraced man? Knowing the noble race of my friend, I should say certainly not. He is not here; or, if he be here, I cannot distinguish him. I wash my hands of it I hate mysteries. I will take neither of them to London.
A new musician had come to Eos. The former Eos musician, Von Hammer, the father of the prodigy who played the piano, had quarrelled with the Master and had retired to Buffalo. Where, after a brief struggle as teacher of music, he had turned to playing for the movies.
I feared also that my leaving school the second time, "under a cloud," would not win me an enthusiastic welcome from him. By nightfall I was well on my way to Eos, sitting in an empty box-car. I had with me my new clothes which I wore and my suitcase, a foolish way to tramp. But I thought I might as well appear before Roderick Spalton with a little more "presence" than usual.
I was the last of the file, but I now rushed past John Jones, who was before me, and next to the old lady, and sure enough there was the chair, in the wall, of him who was called in his day, and still is called by the mountaineers of Wales, though his body has been below the earth in the quiet church-yard one hundred and forty years, Eos Ceiriog, the Nightingale of Ceiriog, the sweet caroller Huw Morus, the enthusiastic partizan of Charles and the Church of England, and the never-tiring lampooner of Oliver and the Independents.
"Very well, Joshua; but how came you to know that I went to school at Stickenham?" "Because, in my tramping about the country, I saw you with the other young gentlemen in the playground on the common." "Hum! but how, in the name of all that is curious, came you to know that I was here at Port Royal dockyard, and a young gentleman belonging to the Eos?" "Oh! very naturally, sir.
"The gods gave it to him because he was a favourite. There was a lady called Artemis she was the last of them. But he went visiting with Eos, another lady of previous acquaintance, down at a place called Ortygia, and Artemis shot him dead with a shaft Apollo had given her; but she didn't marry Apollo neither. She laid Orion out on the sky, with his glittering belt, around him.
On all sides, so to speak, I saw Christ and Socrates and Shelley valeted by society ... dress suits laid out for them ... carefully pressed and creased ... which, now dead, it was pretended their spirits took up and wore ... had, in fact, always worn.... And my mind went back to those happy days at Eos ... happy despite the fly in the ointment.... I thought of my Southern widow, Mrs. Tighe.
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