. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . * WHO S THAT Stray Bits of Character mans peculiar hospitality ; and there is con-siderable chance that if a bite occurs, theline will waken him, as it gradually warmsthe interstice between his toes. A Veteran of the Ranks might almost beKiplings Mulvaney himself. The fatiguecap, which in its jaunty pose seemsto have vegetated and grownthere; the drooping mus-tache ; the capacious pipe ;are all what might have been characteristicsof th
. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . * WHO S THAT Stray Bits of Character mans peculiar hospitality ; and there is con-siderable chance that if a bite occurs, theline will waken him, as it gradually warmsthe interstice between his toes. A Veteran of the Ranks might almost beKiplings Mulvaney himself. The fatiguecap, which in its jaunty pose seemsto have vegetated and grownthere; the drooping mus-tache ; the capacious pipe ;are all what might have been characteristicsof that renowned Hibernian warrior of picture finally centres, however, in theeyes ; which contain a world, or at least twohemispheres, of shrewdness, of that sortwhich only gets about so far in life, but isterribly correct within its own scope. Theyalso possess a certain humanity and generos-ity, which would be likely to act as winsome daughters of his regimeniof martial qualities, even upon the battle-field. 527
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