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..............11 THE HERDSMAN AND THE LOST BULL ....................12 THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE ..............................12 THE POMEGRANATE, APPLE-TREE, AND RAMBLE .....13 THE FARMER AND THE STORK ...............................13 THE FARMER AND THE SNAKE ...............................13 THE FAWN AND HIS MOTHER ..............................14 THE BEAR AND THE FOX .......

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.....35 THE O LD M AN AND D EATH .................................35 THE F IR TREE AND THE B RAMBLE .........................35 THE M OUSE, THE F RO... ...les THE P OMEGRANATE, A PPLE T REE, AND B RAMBLE THE POMEGRANATE and Apple Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was a... ... Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he mus... ...money enough from my share to buy a new gown. In this dress I will go to the Christmas parties, where all the young fel lows will propose to me, but... ...ty six new fables (never before pub lished) from MSS. in the Library of the Vatican, of forty fables attributed to Aphthonius, and of forty three fro... ...e a veritable collection of fables by printing from a MS. con tained in the Vatican library several fables never before published. In the year 1844, ...

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...howder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 The Ramadan, 89 -- 18 His Mark, 94 -- 19 The Prophet, 98 -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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... Aboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 22 Merry Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 23 The Le... ...ub worm of a poor devil of a Sub Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusio... ...han a stone’s throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech tree extended its branches.” Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist. “‘Stern all!’... ... valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; ... ... side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd’s head, yet all w... ...compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys. After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion... ...tain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin. Chapter 22 Merry Christmas A t length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s r...

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...u will have at the next stage; when, down at the end of the long avenue of trees through which you are travelling, the first indication of a town appe... ... with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the puny size, and little slow walk of the Lilliputian men and wo... ...e corner, with their legs sticking out behind them on the floor, like boot trees. Above whom, the Virgin, on a kind of blue divan, promised to restore... ... There must have been a slight sensation, as of earthquake, surely, in the Vatican, when the first Italian railroad was thrown open. Returning to Pisa... ...ni val, is now at hand; and sellers of little tapers like what are called Christmas candles in England, are shouting lustily on every side, ‘Moccoli,... ...es Dickens AT THE HEAD OF THE COLLECTIONS in the palaces of Rome, the Vatican, of course, with its treasures of art, its enormous gal leries, an... ... the Transfiguration, and will go away into an other chamber of that same Vatican, and contemplate an other design of Raphael, representing (in incr...

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...rty, not an accident, as quite natural and spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly fig... ...th he found in the toils of the chase; or amid dried leaves, in his hollow tree, in his bark shed, or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have ... ...ndians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half the year, have no victuals but pipe-clay, the whole co... ...!” Then we have long details of the Weinlesen (Vintage), the Harvest-Home, Christmas, and so forth; with a whole cycle of the Entepfuhl Children’s-gam... ...ter brought its skating-matches and shooting- matches, its snow-storms and Christmas-carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alphab... ...n! That Leicester shoe-shop, had men known it, was a holier place than any Vatican or Loretto-shrine.—’So bandaged, and hampered, and hemmed in, ’ gro...

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...nblethian hangs pleasantly, with its white cottages, and orchard and other trees, on the western slope of a green hill looking far and wide over green... ...y pretty: you see it like a little sleeping cataract of white houses, with trees overshadowing and fringing it; and there the cataract hangs, and does... ... the summit of the hill was crowned by a few gray rocks, from which a yew- tree grew, solitary and bare. Extending at each side of the orchard, toward... ...ehind it a brilliant trait of light was the exhibition of what are called ‘Christmas pieces;’ things unknown in aristocratic seminaries, but constantl... ...need more than a primary school. The worthy master who presided over these Christmas galas, and had the honor to teach John Sterling his reading and w... ...e shall have a new house built, in which we hope to be well settled before Christmas. “The roof was half blown off the kitchen, but I have had it mend... ...thenian elegance. I recur perpetually to the galleries of Sculpture in the Vatican, and to the Frescos of Raffael and Michael Angelo, of inexhaustible... ...encies, almost as grandly as does Greek and Roman Art in the Forum and the Vatican Galler- ies. I wish you were here: but, at all events, hope to see ...

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...despots, of the lowest order of humanity; and Mungo Park, fainting under a tree and succoured by a woman, gratefully remembers how his Good Samaritan ... ...her and the other mutineers, grown grey under the shade of the bread fruit trees, speaking of their lost country far away. See the Halsewell, East Ind... ... immortal Bilkins likewise! There is a charming walk, arched and shaded by trees, on the old walls that form the four sides of this High Town, whence ... ...wn sphere. I will explain this seeming paradox of mine. Take the case of a Christmas Pantomime. Surely nobody supposes that the young mother in the pi... ... FOR PRINT. What working man, that never labours less (some Mondays, and Christmas Time and Easter Time excepted) than twelve or fourteen hours a da... ...and on, completing an Invention and perfecting it. I perfected of it, last Christmas Eve at ten o’clock at night. Me and my wife stood and let some te... ...ope is known to have remarked, as he looked at it out of his window in the Vatican, ‘ O cielo! Questa cosa non sara fatta, mai ancora, come questa—O H...

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...I was wont to increase the uncultivated wildness of this region further by trees of privet-twigs from the garden hedge and box from the garden borders... ...uilders’ sheds, of rivulets overtaken and swallowed up by drain-pipes. Big trees, and especially elms, cleared of under- growth and left standing amid... ...ere ducks, and there were willows on the right,—and so came to where great trees grew on high banks on either hand and bowed closer, and at last met o... ... which is the outcome of the mer- cenary religious compromises of the late Vatican period, the stupid suppression of anything but the most timid discu... ...’n pretty phrase—attractive. Suitable for p’litical dec’rations. Postcard, Christmas, gilt lets, in a wreath of white flow’s. Not oth’wise valu’ble.” ...

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...old monster that waits to pull us down; certainly the branch, possibly the tree; and for the welfare of Life we fall. You are acutely conscious of yon... ...ped down a pathway of nodding heads and curtsies, resembling oak and birch-trees under a tempered gale, even to the shedding of leaves, for here a tur... ...ction, as to the wearifulness of constantly wandering, like a leaf off the tree. Diana spoke of looking for a return of the dear winter days at Copsle... ...d country, wi’ the old coaches and the old squires, and Harvest Homes, and Christmas merryings.—Cutting up the land! There’s no pride 79 George Mered... .... He ‘s fat; and he might ha’ been fatter. But he’s fat. They’ve got their Christmas ready, that they have. Lord! you should see the chitterlings, and... ...ter for a divorce, if the poor dear lady could hale it to the doors of the Vatican!’ Sullivan Smith exclaimed. ‘But there’s character in noses.’ ‘Calc... ...im for the prize he takes, though it feels itself at present rather like a Christmas bon-bon—a piece of sugar in the wrap of a rhymed motto. He is kin...

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..., and to die; and here his son John spent his holidays, and afterwards his Christmas vacation when he went from school to study surgery in the London ... ... centuries of church ascen- dancy; and though some fungi now disfigure the tree, though there be much dead wood, for how much good fruit have not we t... ...med their morning toilet. It was a quiet, sombre place, shaded over by the trees of the warden’s garden. On the side towards the river, there stood a ... ...art of hearts? As he slowly paced, hour after hour, under those noble lime-trees, turning these sad thoughts within him, he became all but fixed in hi... ...s for the guid- ance of British souls and bodies. This little court is the Vatican of England. Here reigns a pope, self-nominated, self-consecrated—ay...

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... but Dora defiantly answered that Harold was going to swing her on the ash tree. “You ought to appear at church, Harry,” said Eustace. “It is expected... ... centre of a fortification of clear jelly at a great luncheon, and had one Christmas painted the two stone wild boars that guard the iron gates of Ery... ...oxication that were only too prevalent. “I shall close five beer-houses at Christmas,” said Eustace. “I look on it as my duty, as landlord and man of ... ...And then she went into one of her despairs. She had prepared a num- ber of Christmas presents for the people about the castle to whom she had always b... ...ared—in riding into Northchester he had stopped to help to lift up a great tree that was insecure on its timber waggon, and even his hands shook a lit... ... never see a lane ending in golden light, melting into blue, and dark pine trees framing as it were the brightness, with every little branch defined a... ...nce been comparisons made. At last, one day, when they were going over the Vatican Galleries, everyone was startled by a strange peal of laughter, and...

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... one is curious to know of what they were made:—thin tablets of the linden-tree, it appears, were the best materials which the Augustus of that day co... ... before he could as- suage his thirst? And, again, the total want of fruit-trees— did that recommend their present station as a fit one for the imperi... ...were formed at Rome of the events which stood next in succession, when, on Christmas day, 283, a sudden and 163 Thomas de Quincey mysterious end over... ...imperial office. If it should unfortunately happen, that the palace of the Vatican, with its thirteen thousand* chambers, were to take fire—for a con...

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...rhuman penetration. Some of it is patent; we are almost as certain of next Christmas and the tides of the year 1960 and the death before 3000 A.D. of ... ...se, it is doubtful if we should find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of t... ...bate between the sexes is a perennial. It began while we were still in the trees. It has its stereotyped accusations; its stereotyped repartees. The C... ... might mean a breach of the present good relations between Germany and the Vatican. The relative inferiority of the tradition of the German to that of...

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...perty, not an accident, as quite natural and spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly fi... ...rmth he found in the toils of the chase; or amid dried leaves, in his hollow tree, in his bark shed, or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must hav... ... Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half the year, have no victuals but pipe clay, the whole ... ...em!” Then we have long details of the Weinlesen (Vintage), the Harvest Home, Christmas, and so forth; with a whole cycle of the Entepfuhl Children’s g... ...Winter brought its skating matches and shooting matches, its snow storms and Christmas carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alph... ...ven! That Leicester shoe shop, had men known it, was a holier place than any Vatican or Loretto shrine.—‘So bandaged, and hampered, and hemmed in,’ gr...

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...s of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance... ...nfined, the flower beds showed no very careful tendance, and large clumps of trees, chiefly of sombre yews, had risen high, not ten yards from the window... ...oon on a gravel walk which led chiefly between grassy borders and clumps of trees, this being the nearest way to the church, Mr. Casaubon said. At the ... ... was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican. “I still regret that your sister is not to accompany us,” he said ... ...h in his equipment, had just turned his back on the Belvedere Torso in the Vatican and was looking out on the magnificent view of the mountains from th... ...ly alone. And Mr. Casaubon was certain to remain away for some time at the Vatican. Yet Dorothea had no distinctly shapen grievance that she could sta... ...gelists in the mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina. Not tha... ...ain have re turned home earlier that we might have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been protracted beyond their anticipa... ...sitating way, looking down at the notes and nervously fingering the paper, “Christmas upon us—I’m rather hard up just now. You see, I have to cut out e...

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...lity quite dis tinct, in a couple of penny chairs under one of the larger trees. They had taken, for their walk, to the cropped rain freshened grass,... ...eenness, through which they gradually passed to where some of the grandest trees spaciously clustered and where they would find one of the quietest pla... ...uisite with another—the appearance of some slight slim draped “antique” of Vatican or Capitoline halls, late and refined, rare as a note and im mortal... ...against crude sights, heated, gilded, draped, almost carpeted, with exotic trees in tubs, exotic ladies in chairs, the general exotic accent and prese... ...hem I don’t quite see. Or must you do it in three guesses—like forfeits on Christmas Eve?” To which, as his ribaldry but dropped from her he further a... ... very much alone. Chapter 3 T here had been from far back—that is from the Christmas time on—a plan that the parent and the child should “do something... ... could scarce have been so much of the open mouth since the dingy waifs on Christmas Eve had so lamentably chanted for pennies—the time when Amerigo, ...