You can explain to him what is meant by imagination, and thus turn my youthful rhymes into a text for a discourse worthy of the Concord School of Philosophy.

I have not my poems by me here, but I remember that 'The Height of the Ridiculous' ended with this verse: "Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can." "But tell your nephew he mustn't cry about it any more than because geese go barefoot and bald eagles have no nightcaps.

The verses are in all the editions of my poems.
"Believe me, dear Mrs.Stanton, "Very Truly and Respectfully Yours, "OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES." After spending the holidays in New York city, we started for Johnstown in a "stage sleigh, conveying the United States mail," drawn by spanking teams of four horses, up the Hudson River valley.

We were three days going to Albany, stopping over night at various points; a journey now performed in three hours.

The weather was clear and cold, the sleighing fine, the scenery grand, and our traveling companions most entertaining, so the trip was very enjoyable.