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Moved to deep smoldering wrath, she did not chastise the animal at the time, waited until her husband returned from a sea voyage last week, charged him to shoot the squirrel while she waited on the porch. Impetuous, Herr Bugg-Moe fired upon the squirrel without pondering his aim. The bullet missed, plowed through a window of the house, pierced one of Fru Bugg-Moe's wrists as she held her fingers to her ears...
...unfortunate men, what horror is this that has happened? Shrouded in night are faces and heads; to the knees it descends. See too crowded with ghosts is the porch, ghosts hurrying down to the darkness of Erebus. Out of heaven, withered and gone is the sun, and a poisonous mist is arising...
Until she broke her hip in 1922, her habit was to sleep under the stars on a wall-less, roofless porch. She arose early, greeting milkmen and "newsies" on her morning walks. She would have no automobile until very lately, when she could not refuse her brother's gift. "Woman of character" her biographers call her, keen-minded, a voracious reader, benevolent, an alert citizen, "one to know whom is a benediction...
...butler belongs the cellar and butteries, and all from thenceforth to the farthest end of the south porch; to the cook the kitchen, larder, and the way leading to the hatch, the turret, and the north alley unto the walk; neither shall the butler or cook suffer any scholar or scholars whatever, except the Fellows, Masters of Art, fellow commoners, or, officers of the House, to come into the butteries or kitchen, save with their parents or guardians, or with some grave and sober strangers; and, if any shall presume to thrust in, they shall have three pence on their...
...members of the University Band, the Freshmen snake danced around the Freshman Athletic Building, with flaming red torches lighting their way. Close to 500 were gathered in the quadrangle when the first eleven emerged from the Common Room and filed across the quadrangle to seats on the east porch...