Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Very different from "Counterfeiting," is J. A. Graydon's delightful Irish dialect story, "In the Study." Throughout this yarn there is a great deal of characterization, and in the homely, wholesome sayings of Terry, an Irish peasant, there is much "horse sense." The theme of the story is, of course, love; but there is nothing commonplace in the way in which this very conventional subject is treated. The phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared...
...Yarn of a Bucko Mate, by Herbert Elliott Hamblen, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Price...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...
...other articles in the number are "A Sermon, Touching on the Disadvantages of being Unmethodical," by Arthur S. Pier; "Prince Genio and the Apple Tree," by Edward G. Knoblauch; "The Beachin' o' the Mamie," a sailor's yarn, by Daniel Gregory Mason, and "Moods," a poem, by John Mack...