Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . ter the moon ? W^hydoes all the world want what it cant get? Why have boys of sixteen or thereabout such an in-ordinate desire for beards ? Andwhy, w^hen the gift would be mostacceptable, does the hard-hearteddame insult them with a sprink-ling of peach fuzz instead ? Andwhy, when years have maturedthe hirsute harvest, does the de-sire for it disappear, and the manbecome involved in expenditureof time and money to get ridof that appendage which, as ayouth, he would have glori
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . ter the moon ? W^hydoes all the world want what it cant get? Why have boys of sixteen or thereabout such an in-ordinate desire for beards ? Andwhy, w^hen the gift would be mostacceptable, does the hard-hearteddame insult them with a sprink-ling of peach fuzz instead ? Andwhy, when years have maturedthe hirsute harvest, does the de-sire for it disappear, and the manbecome involved in expenditureof time and money to get ridof that appendage which, as ayouth, he would have gloried in?During the journey our heros beard had grown broad and long,until he resembled a sapeur of the French Guard. In looking onthe downy lips of the students, a most unphilosophic sense of su-2:)eriority took possession of him. He was annoyed, at the sametime, to perceive the interest whichthe ladies appeared to take intheir beardless conversation. Crayon assumed a magisterial air. Ned, my boy, how areyou getting on with the classics ? Ned replied, modestly, that he had passed his last examinationvery TO SHAVE on DVE, that is the (jUESTION. CLOSE SHAVING. 245 Are you of opinion that Dido was really in love Avith the pi-ous ^neas V Virgil says so, replied Ned. But does not Virgil frequently say, ?Dido et Dux, and, worsethan all, Dux TrojanormrC (which species was probably largerthan our fowl—a sort of aquatic Shanghai), and how do you rec-oncile this with his previous statement V If she eat ducks, said Dora, she certainly couldnt havebeen much in love. Certainly not. Dido was a humbug. Cousin Crayon, said Ned, beginning to show a little pluck,who was first found guilty of a breach of the peace? According to Holy Writ, said Porte, it must have been thefirst Cain. Not so, said Ned; for before his time, and even before thecreation, it is said ? Nihil fit. So he did, indeed, said Crayon. Although the girls did not entirely understand this sally, theylauglied all the
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