BUT that Solomon is out of fashion I should quote him, here and now, to the effect that there is a time for all things; but Solomon is obsolete, and never, no, never, will I dare to quote a dead language, “for raisons I have,” as the exiles of Erin say. Yet, in spite of […]

DOLLY was a goose. Not a real bird, white and pompous, with red bill and self-sufficient eyes, but that kindly, silly, pleasant little creature that men call “a goose,” in tones that soften as they utter the epithet. She was very pretty; her great innocent light brown eyes had the wistful look of a spaniel’s […]

I went down to the farm-yard one day last month, and as I opened the gate I heard Pat Malony say, “Biddy! Biddy!” I thought at first he was calling a hen, but then I remembered the hens were all shut into the poultry-house that day, to be sorted, and numbered, and condemned: so I […]