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Jury--Elected! He's elected! Hooray for Paymore, the new Alimental Assassin! (They leap out of the saucepan and dance about Paymore, singing...
...kitchen in Kambridge. The members of the Club are assembled as a high court of inquisition. Sir Larry Hot-Theyrallhot presides, with a huge frankfurter for a gavel. The other members are sitting as a jury impaneled in a saucepan. Mr. Paymore stands before the bar of judgment...
...Significance. Mr. Bennett once wrote a book called Things That Have Interested Me. That title was a quip, for everything interests Mr. Bennett. He sees a shining saucepan, a sleek yacht, a sorry little woman ; he thinks : "Who scrubbed it? Where is it going? Has anyone ever loved her?" So, doubtless, think others, but Mr. Bennett goes to the trouble of finding out. He knows how servants think, how yachts run, how music teadiers meet their fate. He wears a duster on his helmet; he is the knight of Curiosity. More than that he is one of those simple ones...
...collapse. The Birds were constantly engaged in some comical tricks, one of them going so far so to peck the long hair of the violoncellist in the orchestra, to the great amusement of the audience and the embarrassment of the worthy man. Herakles drank off the contents of the saucepan in which Peithetairos was cooking, when the latter's back was turned; and Prometheus, hiding Zeus under the sunshade, introduced as much comic "business" as an actor in a screaming farce. These things, and the brilliancy of the spectacle, and the delightful music of Dr. Hubert Parry, secured the present...
WORDSWORTH.AUGUST 24, 1873. - Started at 9 A. M. Meant to start at 4. Companion, - athletic Freshman. Equipment, - old hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands...