warning Nine tenths of the "Juvenile Poems" written spring out of the above musical and suggestive coincidences.
"Yes ?" said our landlady's daughter.
I did not address the following remark to her, and I trust, from her limited range of reading, she will never see it; I said it softly to my next neighbour.
When a young female wears a flat circular side--curl, gummed on each temple,--when she walks with a male, not arm in arm, but his arm against the back of hers,--and when she says "Yes ?" with the note of interrogation, you are generally safe in asking her what wages she gets, and who the "feller" was you saw her with.
"What were you whispering ?" said the daughter of the house, moistening her lips, as she spoke, in a very engaging manner.
"I was only laying down a principle of social diagnosis." "Yes ?" -- It is curious to see how the same wants and tastes find the same implements and modes of expression in all times and places.

The young ladies of Otaheite, as you may see in Cook's Voyages, had a sort of crinoline arrangement fully equal in radius to the largest spread of our own lady-baskets.

When I fling a Bay-State shawl over my shoulders, I am only taking a lesson from the climate that the Indian had learned before me.

A BLANKET-shawl we call it, and not a plaid; and we wear it like the aborigines, and not like the Highlanders.
-- We are the Romans of the modern world,--the great assimilating people.

Conflicts and conquests are of course necessary accidents with us, as with our prototypes.