From supplying at de-hoed.nl Tue Sep 1 11:05:24 2009 From: supplying at de-hoed.nl (Krogmann Chappell) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:05:24 -0400 Subject: ves the impres Message-ID: <4A9D6217.1060609@mu-institut.fr> Let Simpson, who found the Windham MS. about the Duke of Buckingham's story, and made other researches; and to Miss Goodrich Freer, who pointed out the family version of "The Tyrone Ghost". CHAPTER I Arbuthnot on Political Lying. Begin with "Great Swingeing Falsehoods". The Opposite Method to be used in telling Ghost Stones. Begin with the more Familiar and Credible. Sleep. Dreams. Ghosts are identical with Waking Dreams. Possibility of being Asleep when we think we are Awake. Dreams shared by several People. Story of the Dog Fanti. The Swithinbank Dream. Common Features of Ghosts and Dreams. Mark Twain's Story. Theory of Common-sense. Not Logical. Fulfilled Dreams. The Pig in the Palace. The Mignonette. Dreams of Reawakened Memory. The Lost Cheque. The Ducks' Eggs. The Lost Key. Drama in Dreams. The Lost Securities. The Portuguese Gold-piece. St. Augustine's Story. The Two Curmas. Knowledge acquired in Dreams. The Assyrian Priest. The Deja Vu. "I have been here before." Sir Walter's Experience. Explanations. The Knot in the Shutter. Transition to Stranger Dreams. Arbuthnot, in his humorous work on Political Lying, commends the Whigs for occasionally trying the people with "great swingeing falsehoods". When these are once got down by the populace, anything may follow without difficulty. Excellently as this practice has worked in politics (compare the warming-pan lie of 1688), in the telling of ghost stories a different plan has its merits. Beginning with the common-place and familiar, and therefore credible, with the thin end of the wedge, in fact, a wise narrator will advance to the rather unusual, the extremely rare, the undeniably startling, and so arrive at statements which, without this discreet and gradual initiation, a hasty reader might, justly or unjustly, dismiss as "great swingeing falsehoods". The nature of things and of men has fortunately made this method at once easy, obvious, and scientific. Even in the rather fantastic realm of ghosts, the stories fall into regular groups, advancing in difficulty, like exercises in music or in a f -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But at night, to prevent any surprise, the Commodore sent on shore a reinforcement, who posted themselves in all the streets leading to the parade; and for their greater security they traversed the streets with barricades six feet high; and the enemy continuing quiet all night, we at daybreak returned again to our labour of loading the boats and sending them off. On the second -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In warmer climates the watery grounds are usefully cultivated, as with rice; and the roots of some aquatic plants are said to have supplied food, as the ancient Lotus in Egypt, which some have supposed to be the Nymphaea.--In Siberia the roots of the Butemus, or flowering rush, are eaten, which is well worth further enquiry, as they grow spontaneously in our ditches and rivers, which at present produce no esculent vegetables; and might thence become an article of useful cultivation. Herodotus affirms, that the Egyptian Lotus grows in the Nile, and resembles a Lily. That the natives dry it in the sun, and take the pulp out of it, which grows like the head of a poppy, and bake it for bread. Enterpe. Many grit-stones and coals, which I have seen, seem to bear an impression of the roots of the Nymphaea, which are often three or four inches thick, especially the white-flowered one.] Her quivering fins and panting gills she hides But spreads her silver arms upon the tides; 205 Slow as she sails, her ivory neck she laves, And shakes her golden tresses o'er the waves. Charm'd round the Nymph, in circling gambols glide _Four_ Nereid-forms, or shoot along the tide; Now all as one they rise with frolic spring, 210 And beat the wondering air on humid wing; Now all descending plunge beneath the main, And lash the foam with undulating train; Above, below, they wheel, retreat, advance, In air and ocean weave the mazy dance; 215 Bow their quick heads, and point their diamond eyes, And twinkle t -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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OVER THE CLIFF 107 XIII. WHAT CLAY SHOT 116 XIV. CAUGHT IN THE WHIRLPOOL 125 XV. RANDY'S PROPOSITION 133 XVI. A SHATTERED DELUSION 142 XVII. THE STORM BREAKS 149 XVIII. AT THE MERCY OF THE TEMPEST 156 XIX. ADRIFT ON A LOG 163 XX. MR. DUDE MOXLEY 170 XXI. A MYSTERIOUS WARNING 178 XXII. AN INSOLENT DEMAND 185 XXIII. A DARING ATTEMPT 192 XXIV. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER 200 XXV. THE SIEGE BEGINS 207 XXVI. BUG'S PROPOSITION 215 XXVII. THE BURNING OF THE MILL 222 XXVIII. A GOOD DEED 229 XXIX. RANDY GOES SAILING 236 XXX. A NIGHT ALARM 243 XXXI. STORMY WEATHER 250 XXXII. THE BROKEN DAM 257 XXXIII. AN UNDERGROUND CRUISE 264 XXXIV. DESPAIR 270 XXXV. NUGGET DISCOVERS A LIGHT 275 XXXVI. HOME AGAIN 280 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CANOE BOYS AND CAMPFIRES CHAPTER I INTRODUCING THE BOYS "I say, Ned, this is beginning to grow wearisome," drawled Randy Moore as he tipped his chair against the wall, and crossed his feet on the low railing in front of him. "Clay promised to be here half an hour ago," he went on in an injured tone, "and if he doesn't come in a few minutes I'm going to have a spin on the river. It's aggravating to sit here and do nothing. I can count a dozen boats between the railroad bridge and Bushy Island." "I wouldn't mind being out myself," -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sustenance.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9105 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.donarmstrong.com/pipermail/emacsbugs/attachments/20090903/ec7b94b2/attachment.jpg From peptises at buxus.co.uk Fri Sep 4 07:02:08 2009 From: peptises at buxus.co.uk (Pozzi Mazique) Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:02:08 +0200 Subject: R true friendship in your foresight. Why, Jack, the poor fellow was quite besid Message-ID: <4AA11CAF.5090806@bbacon.com> pride was sufficiently mortified, I was not suffered (although surrounded by dangers, and entangled in snares) to be totally lost: but, purified by sufferings, I was fitted for the change I have NOW, at the time you will receive this, so newly, and, as I humbly hope, so happily experienced. Rejoice with me, then, dear Sirs, that I have weathered so great a storm. Nor let it be matter of concern, that I am cut off in the bloom of youth. 'There is no inquisition in the grave,' says the wise man, 'whether we lived ten or a hundred years; and the day of death is better than the day of our birth.' Once more, dear Sirs, accept my grateful thanks for all your goodness to me, from my early childhood to the day, the unhappy day, of my error! Forgive that error!--And God give us a happy meeting in a blessed eternity; prays Your most dutiful and obliged kinswoman, CLARISSA HARLOWE. Mr. Belford gives the Lady's posthumous letters to Mrs. Hervey, Miss Howe, and Mrs. Norton, at length likewise: but, although every letter varies in style as well as matter from the others; yet, as they are written on the same subject, and are pretty long, it is thought proper to abstract them. That to her aunt Hervey is written in the same pious and generous strain with those preceding, seeking to give comfort rather than distress. 'The Almighty, I hope,' says she, 'has received and blessed my penitence, and I am happy. Could I have been more than so at the end of what is called a happy life of twenty, or thirty, or forty years to come? And what are twenty, or thirty, or forty years to look back upon? In half of any of these periods, what friends might not I have mourned for? what temptati -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The fall migration begins in the latter part of July or the beginning of August, comparatively few remaining till September. THE MARSH HAWK. One of the most widely distributed birds of North America is the Marsh Hawk, according to Wilson, breeding from the fur regions around Hudson's Bay to Texas, and from Nova Scotia to Oregon and California. Excepting in the Southern portion of the United States, it is abundant everywhere. It makes its appearance in the fur countries about the opening of the rivers, and leaves about the beginning of November. Small birds, mice, fish, worms, and even snakes, constitute its food, without much discrimination. It is very expert in catching small green lizards, animals that can easily evade the quickest vision. It is very slow on the wing, flies very low, and in a manner different from all others of the hawk family. Flying near the surface of the water, just above the weeds and canes, the Marsh Hawk rounds its untiring circles hour after hour, darting after small birds as they rise from cover. Their never ending flight, graceful as it is, becomes monotonous to the watcher. Pressed by hunger, they attack even wild ducks. In New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, where it sweeps over the low lands, sailing near the earth, in search of a kind of mouse very common in such situations, it is chiefly known as the Mouse Hawk. In the southern rice fields it is useful in preventing to some extent the ravages of the swarms of Bobolinks. It has been stated that one Marsh Hawk was considered by planters equal to several negroes for alarming the rice birds. This Hawk when feeding is readily approached. The birds nest in low lands near the sea shore, in the -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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