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...berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep. In Appendix C, she prints 64 pages of "annotations and underscored pas sages in books owned or borrowed by Keats," From a vast accumulation of such industrious, minute researches and from others far larger, she has made novel interpretations...
There are many other interesting rhymes : one about the three foxes, who had no stockings or soxes, but kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes ; about rice pudding ; about Little Bo Peep and Little Boy Blue (they loved each other) ; about the Doormouse and the Doctor (they hated each other) : about four animals - elephant, lion, goat, snail - who were friends. With every rhyme there are pictures by E. H. Sheppard which are better than the rhymes if you like pictures better...
...first faint peep of morning, the spirit of John Harvard, soft returning, takes up again its customary watchfulness: in sculptured meditation, behind that pensive mask, there sits enthroned a pedestaled revolt...
...afternoon time. The betting on the winners is wonderful sport. They have a shooting gallery at one end of the room with a bell moving across a black screen, any number of whirling spheres, electric light bulbs, etc. At one side of the shooting gallery is a peep show which you work with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used to hit the "African Dodger" instead of baseballs in the old days. Then there...
...there are gods many, so are there promises many. Beware, O ye Uncs., Occs., Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...