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...beg to Enclose...
...unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with...
According to ancient custom the Seniors will beg from the Freshmen before the latter's picture is taken. Although much beside money is usually gleaned as a result of this supplication, the Freshmen must produce something of current value if they want their picture to come to a successful conclusion. Several times in the past no coins or bills have been produced, and the first year picture has consequently not been taken...
Morality will continue as long as there is conversation. And the world will remain divided between those who are moral and those who are unmoral as long as there is the need of a subject for conversation. Students of ethics will beg or smile as the case may be but tabloids and bromides will define the morality of the future even as they do the morality of today, and some will buy "True Stories" and others will read "American Mercuries" while the Transcripian mind still understands that the ultimate cause, the efficient reason is a benificent Santa Claus with butter...
Permit me to humbly beg your pardon for my tirade against you when, by mistake, I read "Applesauce" at the bottom of a column in TIME, [Feb. 22, RELIGION], when it really was "Applause." Probably the reason for my misreading, other than my old eyes, was that I am so used to reading fault-finding letters that I naturally look for faults. Hereafter I shall bear in mind that I can make mistakes ; and I shall not hunt for yours and be so wroth when I find...