OU cannot have everything, as the man said when he was down with small-pox and cholera, and the yellow fever came into the neighbourhood.
C. D. Warner, My Summer in a Garden.
HENE'ER I take my walks abroad,
How many rich I see!
There's A. and B. and C. and D.
All better off than me!
R. H. Barham, Life.
T one period of his boyhood, Macaulay's fancy was much exercised by the threats and terrors of the law. He had a little plot of ground at the back of the house, marked out as his own by a row of oyster-shells, which a maid one day threw away as rubbish. He went straight to the drawing-room, where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly: "Cursed be Sally; for it is written, 'Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's landmark.'"
G. O. Trevelyan, Life of Macaulay.
