Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Accordingly, one morning I harnessed Ceph to a light, airy sulky, and repaired to the Fair Grounds lying just outside the village. There was no one about. We should have full swing. The track was not in the best of order, but I remarked to Bucephalus, as I patronizingly patted his neck, that really we so seldom touched the ground, it made very little difference to us what condition...
Then the trouble began. How was I to go to work to get into the place? None of my German friends could seem to throw any light on the point; they knew, of course, what was necessary for a German, but were completely at sea as to what was required of a foreigner. Finally, I determined to take the bull by the horns and go and see the Rector (or President, as we say) himself, confident that he, at any rate, would know something about the matter. I accordingly ascertained his address and ventured a call, having carefully planned...
That tosses in the wind's light breath...
...walkt and was in darkness, lacking one light...
...look at the contents, - simply a football, with painted frill fastened to the head of the coffin." The elegist then, in the most excessively mock sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations, the noise of which might have been heard for a mile, read by torch-light the address, which we will reprint, with Mr. King's permission, from the Harvard Register...