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...discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where his nag took him- down the lane, away from the sombre fields, the farmhouses smelling of disinfectant, toward the city. . . . There was, the physicians agreed, a general shortage of country doctors. Reasons? The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life." Said Dr. Elias P. Lyon, Dean of the University...
...honesty and gratitude of the "friend" are to be commended, but the real pity is that he has robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create...
...greeting from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the worshipful Mayor. He responded to the proffered welcome, dashed away to New Market, a few miles distant, took part in a hunt. His horse fell at one point and off shot the royal rider. He, however, gave chase to the nag, caught it, remounted, continued the hunt. In the evening, he was dined at the Ontario Government House; later, he danced...
...Daddy Franklin", he writes, "knew what he was about, the sharp little man. He set up the first dummy American . . . He made himself a list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul...
Perhaps the best story the number contains is "At the 'Sign of The Little Nag's Head'," by A. C. Train...