, of the rudest and most meagre
materials. Then a tailor helps him to finish his work, and transforms
this scarecrow into quite a fashionable figure. At the end of the story,
after deceiving the world for a long time, the spell should be broken,
and the gray dandy be discovered to be nothing but a suit of clothes,
with a few sticks inside of them. All through his seeming existence as a
human being there shall be some characteristics, some tokens, that to
the man of close observation and insight betray him to be a thing of
mere talk and clothes, without heart, soul, or intellect. And so this
wretched old creature shall become the symbol of a large class.
* * * * *
The golden sands that may sometimes be gathered (always, perhaps, if we
know how to seek for them) along the dry bed of a torrent adown which
passion and feeling have foamed, and passed away. It is good, therefore,
in mature life, to trace back such torrents to their source.
* * * * *
The same children who make the little snow image shall plant dry sticks,
etc., and they shall take root and grow in mortal flowers, etc.
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_Monday, September 17.
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