And I wondered that I hadn’t stopped the practice long before:

So I made an inward vow, that from this moment now,

My beard should, like my pow, grow at pleasure evermore,

And my resolution echoed as I ope’d my bedroom door—

“I shall shave, ah! nevermore!”

John F. Mill.

The above Parody appeared, some years ago, in a Scotch magazine called The People’s Friend.


Chateaux D’Espagne.
(A Reminiscence of “David Garrick” and
“The Castle of Andalusia.”
)

Once upon an evening weary, shortly after Lord Dundreary