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...immortal party" according to the marching song of the Devonshire Volunteers, never reached Widdecombe Fair, died on the way with their old gray mare, still haunt Devonshire on dark nights. First verse...
...Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your gray mare...
...word commonly (but erroneously) called "longest in the English language"* seldom appears in the news and could be defined by few English-speakers. It crept into last week's news when a little body called the National Free Church Assembly gathered at Weston-super-Mare, Somer-setshire, England, and urged that, "in the interests of the Kingdom of God, the Anglican Church should be disestablished and disendowed...
Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole. He demurred. "It's the law," said Reuben Curtis. A hundred guests soon filled the echoing lobby, but failed to decide the case. Reuben Curtis and a bellhop hustled to the nearest police court, quickly unearthed this 100-year-old statute...
Perhaps the groundwork that the Vagabond got in German A wasn't quite so thorough as he had thought it, but surely French, the common property of polite peoples of all nations, was not beyond his ken. He fairly exuded French colloquialisms when he went to see "La Grande Mare". In this linguistic workout he had a lead on his immediate neighbors at the theatre, a portly matron from Melrose (she came to be enraptured of M. Chevalier) and the student from Boston Latin (he, to see la belle Mlle. Colbert), since he had seen the English version first...