Auld Lang Syne: Selections from the Papers of the "Pen and Pencil Club"

CHIVALRY, ho yes, I have heerd of such a thing, but I don’t mind owning—not allus having a Tomson’s Dixonary aside o’ me—as I never rightly unnerstood the full meanin’ o’ the wo...

THUS to his scholars once Confucius said: Better to die than not be rich: get wealth. He who has nothing, trust me, nothing is; Nay, tenfold worse than nothing. Not to be Is nei...

The sun was getting low as I separated from my party and walked up the side of a long hill covered with old heather, moss, patches of grass, patches of reeds, and bogs. It was a...

If I say that I have telegraphed direct, some wretched caviller may observe that he never heard of Kaffir wires. I may have conversed with the ghost of the wicked king of Koussa...

The bank swallow (_riparian_) or sand martin, which is so sociable with its own kind but not with man, digs horizontal and serpentine holes in banks, sloping upwards to avoid ra...

But it is not so. Man is passing the world by, and not the world man. Man is passing on, year after year, in his magnificent and irresistible course, never losing, and ever gain...

Seeing that my phrase exalted Fell upon his senses vainly, In my full career I halted, And I spoke my orders plainly. “Never seek to trim or lop it, Once for all I charge thee,...

“FOLLOW that pathway till you come to some arches, and turn under them, and you will find the Blind School,” was the answer given whenever we stopped in our bewildered pilgrimag...

PAGE Cradle Feb. 1864 _Mentia Taylor_ 1 Bells March, 1864 _Marian James_ 3 Mirror June, 1864 _Lewis Morris_ 4 Shadows Nov. 1864 _Catherine 5 Taylor_ Shadows Nov. 1864 _Lewis 6 S...