3. We were welcomed to a Highlander’s home and told where we could fish to advantage from three o’clock till dark.—Bolles.
4. The announcement that for centuries the tropical forests of Central America have hidden within their tangled growth the ruined homes and temples of a past race, stirs the civilized world with a strange, deep wonder.—Agassiz.
5. I was quite determined that the old set of singers should be dismissed.—George Eliot.
6. It was within the dingy walls of this little potentate’s imperial palace that I chose my country residence.—Longfellow.
7. Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.—Carlyle.
8. The question of common-sense is always, what is it good for?—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.—Lowell.
9. Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains.—Irving.
10. I am told that one of the most reliable weather signs they have down in Texas is afforded by the ants.—Burroughs.
11. “It is only the love of all humanity that can keep from bitterness,” said Brian.
12. I left my own garden yesterday, and went over to where Polly was getting the weeds out of one of her flower-beds.—Warner.