The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
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So a bit of flesh, or even a finger, may be taken from one body and grafted on to another, but a leg cannot be grafted; if a leg is cut off it must die. It may, however, be maintained that the owner dies, too, even though he recovers, for a man who has lost a leg is not the man he was. ADAM AND EVE [Sidenote: _Samuel Butler_] A little boy and a little girl were looking at a picture of Adam and Eve. "Which is Adam and which is Eve?" said one. "I do not know," said the other, "but I could tell if they had their clothes on." FIRE [Sidenote: _Samuel Butler_] I was at one the other night, and heard a man say: "That corner stack is alight now quite nicely." People's sympathies seem generally to be with the fire so long as no one is in danger of being burned. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN ITS INFANCY |
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