. Book of the Royal blue . ystal clink, When the Colonel and the Major and the Genl and the Jedge Meet to have a little nip to give their appetites an edge. For the eggnog now is nogless and the rye has gone awry. And the punch bowl holds carnations, and the South is going dry. All the nightcaps now have tassels and are worn upon the head—Not the nightcaps that were taken when nobody went to bed ;And the breeze above the bluegrass is as solemn as is it bears no pungent clove-tang on its odorific breath;And each man can walk a chalk line when the stars are in the sky,For the fizz glas
. Book of the Royal blue . ystal clink, When the Colonel and the Major and the Genl and the Jedge Meet to have a little nip to give their appetites an edge. For the eggnog now is nogless and the rye has gone awry. And the punch bowl holds carnations, and the South is going dry. All the nightcaps now have tassels and are worn upon the head—Not the nightcaps that were taken when nobody went to bed ;And the breeze above the bluegrass is as solemn as is it bears no pungent clove-tang on its odorific breath;And each man can walk a chalk line when the stars are in the sky,For the fizz glass now is fizzless, and the South is going dry. Lay the jest about the julep neath the chestnut tree at last, For theres but one kind of moonshine and the olden days are past; For the water wagon rumbles through the Southland on its trip, And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the drivers whip; For the mint bed makes a pasture and the corkscrew hangeth high, All is still along the stillside and the South is going Orii education is never complete; we can. It is the death of hope, more than anything: however, live, learn and accomplish to the end. else, that makes us feel our age. Kiiinsr egotism is a good staff to lean upon,even though it supports no one but ourself. Chanck may send the wind, but effort andpreparation spread the sails to receive it. The next best evidence of large characteris that moral strength which enables us torecognize in others an ability we do notpossess ourselves. Wron(; is on the surface of human charac-ter ; but deep in the hearts of men lives adesire to do right. Let us play the game for the games sake Manhood can never be quite unfettered to the end, win or lose. until liberated from the views of other men. Se[ r-eoNTHOi. is the father of self-respect;and the foundation upon which self-reliance isconstructed. How much we find we did not know at all,while ascertaining what at last we learn. Left to himself the average man is sincere;it gene
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