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...Freshmen Dining Halls where he conducts experiments on Lowell House food. By way of a short digression it might be explained that he once upon a time had other Cambridge mail until Radcliffe gave up trying to understand. From this mild suggestion one may gather that, like the Jester, the Vagabond has troubles of his own. But after all, the young people across the Common are ladies and Mr. Curley is Mayor of Boston...
...Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other books: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, Septimus, Simon the Jester, The Joyous Ad- ventures of Aristide Pujol, Stella Maris, The Fortunate Youth, Jaffery, The Rough Road, Ancestor Jorico...
...difficult to discover what could have motivated the Jester to this attempt to joke history. Hum, perhaps the old fellow is telling us no tales after all. Perhaps the Vagabond is behind the times. People who move fences are not to be stopped by Will's "curst be he that moves my bones...
...Wynn is the featured jester: he who is plump and lisping, who wears horn glasses and exhibits inventions. This year he has fashioned a nightdress guaranteed not to become uncomfortably entwined about the body ? it is truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination...
...cannot believe it. She is just human, subject to moods and the weather. But please take her away from the window and lead her gently back to her rocker, where she might resume her gentle chatter and her knitting; else we might confuse her with that naughty child, the Jester. Manuel de J. Manduly...