“O, you have selected an extreme case! those things very seldom happen.” (Seldom!) “After all, you see the poor old thing knew what was right; she showed the right spirit,—”
“Yes,—she,—but her owners?”
Here Mr. S—— was sure he saw a friend at a distance to whom it was necessary he should speak immediately; so he darted off, and I lost the benefit of his defence of the peculiarities of the peculiar institution.
A NAME,
ON BEING ASKED FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH.
Why ask a Name? Small is the good it brings;
Names are but breath; deeds, DEEDS alone are Things.
West Newton, Oct. 23, 1852.