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YOU hard–headed, dunder–headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!” said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle Rumgudgeon– shaking my fist at him in imagination.
Only in imagination. The fact is, some trivial discrepancy did exist, just then, between what I said and what I had not the courage to say– between what [...]

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What o’clock is it?
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Chacun a ses vertus.
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Loss of Breath

February 28, 2010 | Comments | Humorous Tales

A Tale Neither In nor Out of “Blackwood”
O Breathe not, etc.
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King Pest

January 3, 2010 | Comments | Humorous Tales

A Tale Containing an Allegory
The gods do bear and will allow in kings
The things which they abhor in rascal routes.
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A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign
Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau!
La moitie de ma vie a mis [...]

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Bon-Bon

August 9, 2009 | Comments | Humorous Tales

Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac
Je suis plus savant que Balzac-
Plus sage que Pibrac;
Mon [...]

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Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos
Passus erat
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Lionizing

February 6, 2009 | Comments | Humorous Tales

-all people went
Upon their ten toes in wild wondernment.
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And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Cowper
KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of “The Andromache”? [1] Ignoble souls!– De L’Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius!
[1]Montfleury. The [...]

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