You can see them grow, from first to
last.
A beer-bottle rampant on a field of limburger
cheese, gules, saidEugene.
Descending the dark stairs of the Medical Building
slowly, Mrs. A whisper of laughter came from their weary jaws. Then, with a high
vacant snigger heturned suddenly, and said:You rascal, you!
But Im thinking ofusing my tail a good deal in my
old age.
As eer beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman
wailing for her demon lover.
Julius is a good boy, said George
Graves.
George Graves staggered drunkenly with
highresounding laughter.
Herrick, Crashaw, Carew, Suckling, Campion,
Lovelace,Dekker.
Yes, Eugene agreed seriously, youre
right.
Descending the dark stairs of the Medical Building
slowly, Mrs.
Jump on, Gene, he invited, patting the mares broad
rump.
As Eugene watched, the old fatality of place
returned.
Then he roared away through scattering traffic, in
a greasy bluecloud of gasoline and burnt rubber. A street-sweeper walked along
slowly uphill, beside his deep wedge-bodied cart. I was given to crime, And cut off
in my prime When only eighty-two. Hewas well-liked by every one but a terror when he
drank. Well, young fellow, he panted, hows Latin? Thenthey continued their
discussion of the courts. Thenthey continued their discussion of the
courts.
Leonard, said Eugene, carefully choosing his
moment,can I go?
Im going to keepyou in on general
principles.
His face was covered with small yellow pustulate
sores. Shall we sing our little song for Handsome Hal? Doaksoffered to give him a
house and lot in Doak Park. The elegy to little Salathiel Pavy, the child actor, was
honey fromthe lions mouth.
Another Redskin bit the dust, said George
Graves.
And, with rough but affectionate camaraderie, he
would pause fromtime to time to say: Old Male!
It is not growing like a tree, in bulk doth make
manbetter be.