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"The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics"


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A benevolent person going about the world and endeavoring to do good to
everybody; in pursuance of which object, for instance, he gives, a pair
of spectacles to a blind man, and does all such ill-suited things.
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Beautiful positions of statues to one intellectually blind.
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A man, arriving at the extreme point of old age, grows young again at
the same pace at which he has grown old; returning upon his path,
throughout the whole of life, and thus taking the reverse view of
matters. Methinks it would give rise to some odd concatenations.
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Little gnomes, dwelling in hollow teeth. They find a tooth that has been
plugged with gold, and it serves them as a gold mine.
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The wizard, Michael Scott, used to give a feast to his friends, the
dishes of which were brought from the kitchens of various princes in
Europe, by devils at his command. "Now we will try a dish from the King
of France's kitchen," etc. A modern sketch might take a hint from this,
and the dishes be brought from various restaurants.
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"Pixilated,"--a Marblehead word, meaning bewildered, wild about any
matter.


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