. The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his friends / by Elihu Vedder ; containing the quaint legends of his infancy, an account of his stay in Florence, the garden of lost opportunities, return home on the track of Columbus, his struggle in New York in war-time coinciding with that of the nation, his prolonged stay in Rome, and likewise his prattlings upon art, tamperings with literature, struggles with verse, and many other things, being a portrait of himself from youth to age ; with many illustrations by the without hisdinner the day before and without his bre
. The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his friends / by Elihu Vedder ; containing the quaint legends of his infancy, an account of his stay in Florence, the garden of lost opportunities, return home on the track of Columbus, his struggle in New York in war-time coinciding with that of the nation, his prolonged stay in Rome, and likewise his prattlings upon art, tamperings with literature, struggles with verse, and many other things, being a portrait of himself from youth to age ; with many illustrations by the without hisdinner the day before and without his breakfast and lunch thatday. Poor fellow! he turned pale. He took me at once to arestaurant and fed me carefully, as you do starved people taken A LETTER 249 from a raft: perhaps he remembered our little Negro, Crispino,and the experiment of letting off Seidlitz powders in him. Any-way, this marked the culminating point in my troubles, in that re-spect, for I have suffered more since from indigestion than fromhunger—with the exception that I still hunger for little-neckclamsand soft-shell crabs, and in general for all things I cannot get.••Contrast! I should say so. Dodsworths was a dancing-academy, and the Cubans used to give balls there, and as theyare fond of perfumes, great gusts of odour and strains of thethrobbing habaneros used to come up to us as we lay on the floorunder our buffalo-robe. I lie softer now, but not much happier;yet happiness, as it did then, seems just within my reach. Stillyouthful? Xo: but still GrVists >nust mose^WandVfiVches oe •>\o aatner m. enfcmcjline/ coils from. \f3t»e T>oistVous Winds as .spoils and JirmKr HeJn /^>^» c. Knots ,wk»ek once aactin. seV ^ree^bcU Sacra* oftHe laoovo-incf 3e« • Ltnd*r the wan o* moon OU jsolenC spellsl£*»/ cedcH l£em in tfvetV maddest hurryncjs;l£e furious t~em)>esl* a-ndtne scjuatt,£ven in* cjentle ^e^fv^rs te]>idvvm^owmers ; _Clivd b«ltincr Kail
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