Life's Little Ironies

w, accompanied by broken laughter from loungers at

tale of Homeric blows and knocks, Argonautic voyaging, or Theban family woe that inflamed their imaginations and spurred them on

ed and interchanged upon the walls like a spectral army manoeuvring. The open casement which admitted the remoter sounds no

of staying up there? I like you not to go out wi

away disappointed. Presently there was a dull noise of heavy footsteps at the side of the house,

ner, reeling as he came. The elder son flushed with anger, rose from his books, and descended the s

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would be the explanation of his absence! No stones dressed for Miller Kench, the great wheel of th

g up Donnegan's Lexicon with a slap. 'O if we had only been able

hundred and fifty each, she thought. And I have no d

to indulge the dear wish of her heart-that of sending her sons, Joshua and Cornelius, to one of the Universities, having been informed that from four hundred to four hundred and fifty each might carry them through their terms with such great economy as she knew she could trust them to p

our own bungling way, and the utmost we can hope for is a term of years as national schoolmas

ce of the other. 'We can preach the Gospel as well without a hoo

Joshua with a slight pursing

he best of it,

and they drearily bent

quate quantity of strong liquor took hold of him; since when his habits had interfered with his business sadly. Already millers went elsewhere for their gear, and only one set of hands was now kept goin

ed the students' bedroom, and all the scene outwardly breathed peace. None knew of the fevered youthful

n a training college for schoolmasters; first having placed their young sister Rosa under as e