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...on itself wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the ... ...tunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup But, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promi... ...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...ty of a more substantial comi^eiisation for the large amount of work which falls to the lot of a conscientious man ager than tlie sharing with the boa... ... be carved on the wails of the common room. Any man whose average standard falls below that set would thereby forfeit the right to room in this dormit... ...eldon. Great Barrington; Mrs. L. E. Hilliard, Brookline; Miss A. L. Bayle, Glens Palls, N. Y. Musical Clubs at Hoosick Falls The musical clubs will gi...

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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...ome of the state capitol. The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Mendota, white walls and a s... ...folding chairs, in her front parlor with its faded photograph of Minnehaha Falls in 1890, its “col- ored enlargement” of Mr. Dawson, its bulbous lamp ... ... of the educational institutions attended by the Casses’ two sons—Chicopee Falls Business College and McGilllcuddy University. One small square table ...

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...hout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...the King- maker, the Marquis of Montagu, and George Nevil, Arch- bishop of York. As nothing is known of her but her name, I have ventured to make use ... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ... GLENUSKIE THE GUEST OF GLENUSKIE A MASTER HAND has so often described the glens and ravines of Scotland, that it seems vain and presumptuous to meddl... ...ed at entrance, as if supposing the old man asleep; and at a slow pace the new-comer crossed the hall to the chimney, where he stood by the fire, warm... ...e as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcol... ... a voucher for the guest. The drawbridge had already been lowered, and the new-comer was crossing it upon a powerful black steed, guided by Father Nin... ...dom hath he? What hope is there of his return? Can he brook to hear of his people’s wretchedness?’ This was the first question at which Sir James atte... ...s moving as he followed the spirit-stir- ring ballad; and then, as Douglas falls, and is laid beneath the bracken bush, unseen by his men, and Montgom...

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...o of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding from the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no... ..., the varied accents in which they converse, the crying of their children terrified by this new experience, or the clean flat smack of the parental ha... ...table and that of the true steerage passenger was the table itself, and the crockery plates from which we ate. But lest I should show myself ungratefu... ...of her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had heard reports, her husband and she, of ... ...ily men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had failed to place themselves in life, and people who had seen better days. Mildness was the prevaili... ...re a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, w... ...p- proach; oil that gushes from the earth; gold that is washed or quarried in the brooks or glens of the Sierras; and all that bustle, courage, action... ...we generalise boldly and simply, and are gone be- fore the sun is overcast, before the rain falls, before the sea- son can steal like a dial-hand from... ...unconsciousness of our existence, as they will live when we are gone. If to-morrow the blow falls, and the worst of our ill fears is realised, the gir...

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...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ... fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melvil... ...shore, catching, as we proceeded, short glimpses of blooming valleys, deep glens, waterfalls, and waving groves hidden here and there by pro- jecting ... ...view. The beautiful aspect of the shore is heightened by deep and romantic glens, which come down to it at almost equal distances, all apparently radi... ...eam, which vexed and fretted about them,—forming at intervals small water- falls, pouring over into deep basins, or splashing wildly upon heaps of sto... ...t around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided. Having obtained a quan...

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...ngs of its manufacture may to some degree find favour for my story with seafarers and sea-lovers like yourselves. And at least here is a dedication fr... ...urselves. And at least here is a dedication from a great way off: writ- ten by the loud shores of a subtropical island near upon ten thousand miles fr... ...scouts the long streets, with a pang at heart, for the faces and friends that are no more. Else- where he is delighted with the presence of what is ne... ...onourable Miss Katherine Durie, in ’27; so much I know; and by what I have been going over the last few days, they were what you say, decent, quiet pe... ...f their wits. What must John Paul do but burst into the hall where the family sat at dinner, and cry the news to them that “T am Macmorland was but ne... ... my companions failed me, I soon found myself alone. This was a predicament very disagreeable; for I never understood this horrid country or savage pe... ...one of the things I am here to speak of, is the persecution he must bear in private. Your back is not turned before one whom I dare not name to you fa... ... re- sign; I care not if I die, and the world never hear of me; I care only for one thing, and that I will have. Mind yourself; lest, when the roof fa... ... followed his, and rested almost pleasantly upon the frosted contexture of the pines, rising in moonlit hillocks, or sinking in the shadow of small gl...

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...ll alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigine... ...d, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Moh... ... the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. His language has the r... ...that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer r... ...ore Cooper whites. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribe... ...ermed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen ... ...-civilized be- ings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New Y ork. The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which thei... ...nown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountain... ...hear the bushes move—yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls—and—but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!” ...

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............................................................................................................................... 209 Note 6.?MACGREGOR OF GLENSTRAE......................................................................................................... 209 NOTES TO THE HIGHLAND WIDOW. ................................................................................

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.................................................... 209 Note 6.—MACGREGOR OF GLENSTRAE..................................................................... ...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ...at it would have been an idle piece of affectation to attempt getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...ng of a decisive character, and are not eagerly and easily diverted into a new channel. When I made the discov- 15 Sir Walter Scott ery—for to me it ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ... them, Mr. Croftangry. Och, ay. ‘There is the puir Highland creatures frae Glenshee, that cam down for the harvest, and are lying wi’ the fever—five s... ...cruelly. See, Elspat MacTavish, who never kneeled before even to a priest, falls prostrate before her own son, and craves his forgiveness.” And at onc...

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...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...re less precipitous, and as they receded opened into irregular valleys and glens, or were formed into terraces and hollows that admitted of cultiva- t... ... was reared without a single accident, if we 88 The Pioneers except a few falls from horses while the laborers were return- ing home in the evening. ... ... body wants the best ammunition to get a livelihood, everything that’s bad falls on him like a judgment. But I’ll change the stone, for Billy Kirby ha...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... a court, had for some time been gradually reconciling them- selves to the new dynasty. But the wealthy country gentle- men of England, a rank which r... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...f felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that th... ...nd showed it partially, chafed by a hundred rocks, and broken by a hundred falls. The descent from the path to the stream was a mere precipice, with h... ...ured for want of spirit, and observed, ‘When the wind is still, the shower falls soft.’ This good old man, whose charity and hospitality were unbounde... ...hich he afterwards so amply redeemed, that his memory still lives in these glens by the name of the Friend of the Sons of Ivor. ‘Would to God,’ contin...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...emed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the o... ...arcerated body and the whale’s gastric juices. But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must ha... ...kling mist enveloping it; and how can you certainly tell whether any water falls from it, when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a ... ...rent we had slid into a serene valley lake. Here the storms in the roaring glens between the outermost whales, were heard but not felt. In this centra...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...emed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the o... ...arcerated body and the whale’s gastric juices. But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must ha... ...ing mist enveloping it; and how can you certainly tell whether any wa- ter falls from it, when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a ... ...rent we had slid into a serene valley lake. Here the storms in the roaring glens be- tween the outermost whales, were heard but not felt. In this cent...

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...ntë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë CHAPTER I 1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord— the solitary neighbour that I shall be trouble... ...o not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcl... ... name. ‘Mr. Heathcliff?’ I said. A nod was the answer. ‘Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible afte... ...use he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose. Possibly, some people might sus- pect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympa-... ...le about in. Do you know that you run a risk of being lost in the marshes? People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; an... ...should need such a weapon to gain admittance into my own residence. Then a new idea flashed across me. I was not going there: we were journeying to he... ... did, for the whole hill-back was one billowy, white ocean; the swells and falls not indicating corre- sponding rises and depressions in the ground: m... ...d, after a pause; ‘except where I’ve flown. I couldn’t count the number of falls I’ve had. Oh, I’m aching all over! Don’t be alarmed! There shall be a... ...n winter nothing more dreary , in summer noth- ing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath. I reached th...

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....................... 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR ........................................................

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.......................................................................... 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ................................................... .......................................................................... 59 FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE .................................................. ...eloved tortoise-lyre tight. 26. 26. 26. 26. 26. There he lay innocent as a new-born child, As gossips say; but though he was a God, The Goddess, his f... ...lives in this obscure abode. 29 29 29 29 29 ‘But we will leave this shadow-peopled cave And live among the Gods, and pass each day In high communion, ... ...ege before his door, Silent as night, in night; and many a day In the wild glens rough shepherds will deplore That you or yours, having an appetite, ... ...two sides of one question. Now go; and as I said, return for me When night falls, veiling in its shadows wide This glorious fabric of the universe. ... ...L FL FLOR OR OR OR ORO: O: O: O: O: I pray That you depart hence with your people, and Leave us to finish what we have begun ... ...ly Upon His subject thrones. Chastised, I know The depth to which ambition falls; too mad Was the attempt, and yet more mad were now Repentance of the... ...d from the burning plains Where Libyan monsters yell, From the most gloomy glens Of Greenland’s sunless clime, To where the golden fields ...

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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...ng put under forest laws at the time when the district of Ytene became the New Forest. Probably the king was able to ride over down, heather, and wood... ...This continues along the valley of Otterbourne, along a little brook which falls into the Itchen. It is for the most part of thick clay, fit for brick... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... ...fine old lime-trees. On all the sides, except towards Ampfield, the ground falls away, and the village of well-kept, picturesque cottages lies in the ... ...er- fect clouds of the little devils’-bit scabious. Ferns adorn the watery glens, and bracken spreads on the undulating ground in wild beauty of form,...

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...uite young girls now,” said Grace, half perplexed, half annoyed. “Exactly, from this moment we are established as the 4 The Clever Woman of the Famil... ...other white muslin.” “I have done with white muslin,” said Rachel, rousing from her reverie. “It is an affectation of girlish simplicity not be- comin... ... popularity. It was the family fashion to look down from their crag at the new esplanade with pity and contempt for the ruined loneliness of the peb- ... ...her of being protected. She had a few alarms as to the results of Rachel’s new immunities of age, and though never questioning the wisdom of her cleve... ...estioning and perplexed. “I was thinking,” said Grace, “that I believe the people at the Cliff Cottages are going away, and that Miss Williams might b... ...iving in state here,” said Rachel; “I never could enter into the cult some people, mamma especially, pay to their drawing-room.” The Major used to be ... ... enviable position, to have the control of means of doing good that always falls to the women of a clerical family.” “Tell her so,” said the brother, ... ...s like being in the middle of an explosion, without knowing what stands or falls.” “And lobster salad as an aggravation!” said he, as the dish success... ... the jaded spirits, and they had been going through a course of passes and glens as thoroughly as Rachel’s powers would per- mit, for any over-fatigue...