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...along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve dozen jars of jelly. She, Metabel felt, had an eye for Joseph; she would have liked to change him over...
...been growing somewhat reflective of late but now that a new tree, an elm in fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon wit who is in complete charge...
...every bud on the glass flowers in Cambridge and an ability to cross Washington street without fear or trembling. The confident Freshman whose savoir-faire considerably outweighs his rational aculties may believe that a journey down the long white trek to Andrews Square or a nook in the attic of the Boston Opera House should entitle him to the keys of the city and a bed in the State House. The established order of things is, however, much different. The day is past when one could romp gaily through every Middlesex village and town and then retire to a noble...
Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules. His body is graceful rather than Herculean, his face Attic rather than Theban. To him is attributed the glory of founding the Olympian games and it is no wonder that the Athenians represented him as more lithe, less ponderous than the deity venerated by the despised Boeotians. He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity...
That young Charles Rumford Walker would always want to write seemed likely when, aged 10, in Concord, N. H., he put his money, earned by raking leaves, into a hand printing press and began publishing a weekly newspaper in his attic. He was "romantically mechanical"; built a balloon that burned up on its first trip...