to
everybody; in pursuance of which object, for instance, he gives, a pair
of spectacles to a blind man, and does all such ill-suited things.

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Beautiful positions of statues to one intellectually blind.

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A man, arriving at the extreme point of old age, grows young again at
the same pace at which he has grown old; returning upon his path,
throughout the whole of life, and thus taking the reverse view of
matters. Methinks it would give rise to some odd concatenations.

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Little gnomes, dwelling in hollow teeth. They find a tooth that has been
plugged with gold, and it serves them as a gold mine.

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The wizard, Michael Scott, used to give a feast to his friends, the
dishes of which were brought from the kitchens of various princes in
Europe, by devils at his command. "Now we will try a dish from the King
of France's kitchen," etc. A modern sketch might take a hint from this,
and the dishes be brought from various restaurants.

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"Pixilated,"--a Marblehead word, meaning bewildered, wild about any
matter. Probably derived from Pixy, a fairy.

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For a child's story,--imagine all sorts of wonderful playthings.

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Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas More, Algernon Sidney, or some other
great man, on the eve of execution, to make reflections on his own
head,--considering and addressing it in a looking-glass.

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_March 16, 1849._--J---- ... speaking of little B. P----: "I will hug
him, so that not any storm can come to him."

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A story, the principal personage of which shall seem always on the point
of entering upon the scene, but never shall appear.

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In the "New Statistical Account of Scotland," (Vol. I.,) it is stated
that a person had observed, in his own dairy, that the milk of several
cows, when mixed together and churned, produced much less butter
proportionably than the milk of a single cow; and that the greater the
number of cows which contributed their milk, the smaller was the
comparative product. Hence, this person was accustomed to have the milk
of each cow churned separately.

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