. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. , Icould not have handled a pole in that persecution without strongPythagorean misgivings. There is a Juvenile Poem, The Notorious Glutton,by Miss Tavlorof Ongar, in which a duck falls sick and dies in a very human-hke PYTHAGOREAN rANCIES. 253 way. I could never eat duck for some time after the perusal of thoseverses ; it seemed as if in reality the soul of my grandam might inhabitsuch a bird. In mere tenderness to past womanhood, I could neverlay the death-scene elsewhere than in a ladys chamber, with the bodyof the invalid propped up by
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. , Icould not have handled a pole in that persecution without strongPythagorean misgivings. There is a Juvenile Poem, The Notorious Glutton,by Miss Tavlorof Ongar, in which a duck falls sick and dies in a very human-hke PYTHAGOREAN rANCIES. 253 way. I could never eat duck for some time after the perusal of thoseverses ; it seemed as if in reality the soul of my grandam might inhabitsuch a bird. In mere tenderness to past womanhood, I could neverlay the death-scene elsewhere than in a ladys chamber, with the bodyof the invalid propped up by comfortable pillows on a nursery sick attendant seem, d one that had relished drams aforetime—had been pompously officious at huinan dissolutiims, and wouldannounce that all was over \ with the same flapping of paws and(iuck-like inflections of tone. As for the Physician, he was an of our own kmd, just called in from the pond—a sort of Man-Drake, and formerly a brother by nature, as now by name, of the authorof Winter The Last Visit. 254
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