. Stories for the household . e, now and then to become amere nothing, especially when a man is as highly placed as I am. Andthen to think that we all, even with patent lacquer, are nothing morethan insects of a moment on that ant-hill the earth, though we may beinsects with stars and garters, places and offices ! One feels quite a 128 Stories for the Household. novice beside chese venerable million-year-old boulders. On last XewTears-eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so com-pletely, that I forgot my usual Xew Tears diversion, namely, the wildhunt to Amack. Ah, you dont kno
. Stories for the household . e, now and then to become amere nothing, especially when a man is as highly placed as I am. Andthen to think that we all, even with patent lacquer, are nothing morethan insects of a moment on that ant-hill the earth, though we may beinsects with stars and garters, places and offices ! One feels quite a 128 Stories for the Household. novice beside chese venerable million-year-old boulders. On last XewTears-eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so com-pletely, that I forgot my usual Xew Tears diversion, namely, the wildhunt to Amack. Ah, you dont know what that is! The journey of the witches on broomsticks is well enough known—that journey is taken on St. Johns-eve, to the Brocken; but we have awild journey also, which is national and modern, and that is the journeyto Amack on the night of the New Tear. All indifferent poets andpoetesses, musicians, newspaper writers, and artistic notabilities, I meanthose who are no good, ride in the Xew Tears-night through the air to. THE EIEE TO A3IACZ- Amack. They sit backwards on their painting brushes or quill pens,for steel pens wont bear them, they re too stiff. As I told you, I seethat every Xew Tears-night, and could mention the majority of theriders by name, but I should not like to draw their enmity upon myself,for they dont like people to talk about their ride to Amack on quillpens. I ve a kind of niece, who is a fishwife, and who, as she tells me,supplies three respectable newspapers with the terms of abuse and vitu-peration they use, and she has herself been at Amack as an invitedguest; but she was carried out thither, for she does not own a quill pen,nor can she ride. She has told me all about it. Half of what she saidis not true, but the other half gives us information enough. When shewas out there, the festivities began with a song: each of the guests hadwritten his own song, and each one sang his own song, for he thoughtthat the best, and it was all one, all the same m
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