Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pompous young chamberlain leads...
...went to the young who pined for joys...
When a tall young Proctor, of stately mien...
...tall young Proctor, smiling again...
...author of the new history has already given us proof of his humor in Happy Thoughts and other books, we look for amusement, if not instruction, and are not disappointed. The book opens very funnily with a description of the "hilarious" son of the farmer, and of the young Jamaica nabob. Of course the omniscient Mr. Barlow falls an easy prey to the author's talent for ridicule, and becomes in farce what Mr. Pecksniff is in comedy. The stories which this gentleman was so fond of narrating appear again, but, as might be supposed, in a very different form...