All the Year Round: Contributions by Unknown
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capricious in other particulars, that they always form their circles
into what may be described, in worldly terms, as A Mutual Admiration and Complimentation Company (Limited). Mr. Home's book is entitled Incidents in My Life. We will extract a dozen sample passages from it, as variations on and phrases of harmony in, the general strain for the Trumpet, which we have promised not to repeat. 1. MR. HOME IS SUPERNATURALLY NURSED "I cannot remember when first I became subject to the curious phenomena which have now for so long attended me, but my aunt and others have told me that when I was a baby my cradle was frequently rocked, as if some kind guardian spirit was attending me in my slumbers." 2. DISRESPECTFUL CONDUCT OF MR. HOME'S AUNT NEVERTHELESS "In her uncontrollable anger she seized a chair and threw it at me." 3. PUNISHMENT OF MR. HOME'S AUNT "Upon one occasion as the table was being thus moved about of |
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