A Wedding-gown.

He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.

A Charitable Man.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in in malice.

Shakespeare Grog.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

A Matter-of-fact Man.


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RALPH WALDO EMERSON.  1803-1882.