Word: tails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept a dog which was in the habit of laying in the corner of the room, near the wall, and the wagging of his tail against the foot-board probably produced the mysterious noise. The order for the coffin has been cancelled and the insurance agent has lost a customer, while the badly frightened tenant is congratulating himself on being the only telegraph operator who has ever succeeded in reading the wagging...
When his own boat came in at the tail...
Director Swift, of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y., at 7 o'clock last evening discovered a bright telescopic comet about 2 1/4 north of the star Beta, in constellation Pegasus, having a tail about half a degree long, and slow eastward motion; about R. A. 22h. 50m., about N. Dec. 29. This is the first comet of the year, and promises to be a conspicuous object in the western...
...rival in the field for the Lampoon or The Tiger. It has evidently given up all hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year and so like the fox who was minus a tail, it deems it its only policy to deride all those who do aspire to artistic display, and chatter that these are but blemishes from which may the gods ever spare its pure pages. Oh, crafty antediluvians of Yale! - [Athenaeum...
...biographical papers, afford some very creditable specimens of Yankee humor, and are very readable; indeed, the entire volume is readable, and, spiced throughout as it is by Dr. Holmes' wit, is very enjoyable. Solid articles have their due share of space, however. The volume is ended by a poetical "Tail Piece" by Holmes...