Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:20:31 -0300
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he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid thegeneral rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the pageand reads, Let the pupil make careful note of the following EXCEPTIONS. Heruns his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule thanhim simply say ALSO! and this will give him a moments chance to think ofthe needful word. In Germany, when you load your conversational gun it islways best to throw in a SCHLAG or two and a ZUG or two, because it doesntake any difference how much the rest of the charge may scatter, you are And always the pine tree had grown, insolent in the pride of a creature set in the right surroundings. The imprisoned man had felt himself dwarfed by its height. But now, he looked up at it again, and laughed aloud. It had come late, but it had come. He was fifty-seven years old, almost three-score, but all his life was still to be lived. He said to himself that some folks lived their lives while they did their work, but he had done all his tasks first, and now he could live. The unexpected arrival of the timber merchant and the sale of that piece of land hed never thought would bring him a cent -- was not that an evident sign that Providence was with him? He was too old and broken now to work his way about as he had planned at first, but here had come this six hundred dollars like rain from the sky. He would start as soon as he could sell his stock. destroys HER also; she attacks the Fishwifes Leg and destroys HER also; sheattacks its Body and consumes HIM; she wreathes herself about its Heart andIT is consumed; next about its Breast, and in a Moment SHE is a Cinder; nowshe reaches its Neck -- He goes; now its Chin -- IT goes; now its Nose -- Before he went into the house after his evening chores were done, he stopped for a moment and looked back at the cleft in the mountain wall through which the railroad left the valley. He had been looking longingly toward that door of escape all his life, and now he said good-by to it. Ah well, twant to be, he said, with an accent of weary finality; but then, suddenly out of the chill which oppressed his heart there sprang a last searing blast of astonished anguish. It was as if he realized for the first time all that had befallen him since the morning. He was racked by a horrified desolation that made his sturdy old body stagger as if under an unexpected blow. As he reeled he flung his arm about the pine tree and so stood for a time, shaking in a paroxysm which left him breathless when it passed. difficulty and annoyance, for three of our teachers had died in the mean
