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Carnaby The First.
Scroggins . " The heart , like old china , is all the more valuable for having been frequently broken , and as often mended . " " Cease your vain discourse , " interrupted Ignatius Loyola , " for it is noonday , ancl the sun sees us . " Here Ignatius Loyola blew his nose , and I heard a loud shout
of laughter high up the hills in the distance . " Nature , " said Ignatius , " has proidded two cradles for her great child , man—the cradle proper , ancl—the coffin . " " True ! " sighed Bob Huckaback , Avho had not yet spoken ; " our original cradle is Avhite , and our last one is black , and that is nearly all the difference . There is a noise between , and that
is all . Old women officiate at our reception into life , as also at our departure from it . Our necessities shrink to the meanest at the beginning and at the end of our time . Our glory is about as great Avhen Ave retire from it as when Ave enter upon the grand di'awing-room of life . We are poor candles , that are to burn a certain time in the wind , and then , Avith a puff , that
which men saw is gone—whither ? The jewel is tossed out , and we have the rotten setting : watch-Avheels Avithout that which comprises them into Avatch—the bag Avith the string run out and snatched away—the writing Avithout the means to read it —the horse Avithout the back upon Avhich to mount . We begin with the rattle , and end with something like it , too . We commence with the spoon , and end with the spade ; two domestic and almost as equally significant implements , of which the only difference seems to be that the one is used Avithm the house
and the other Avithout . We come noisily , and we go sdently . As shadoAvs pass along a wall , so whole generations gain the knowledge that they , at all , are but by a certain something resembling lamp-light . As wise would it be to send some one to gather up the shadows when the lamp was carried away , as to look for these human shows of past ages in the blank of
the present . O unhappy man , and most mistaken shadoAv ! perpetually purporting to yourself to be , certainly not that Avhich you appear to others , for all the sense that you have of your present life , you lived long ago . " " Life , " ejaculated Ignatius Loyola , "is the enigma of which death is the ansAver . "
At this moment a wild unicorn came running across the plain , and it was instantly pierced by the eye of Bob Huckaback . Sending out his slaves , of their fans Avherewith to make a litter to gather up the body , Bob Huckaback continued , — " Death , seen through the true spectacles , is the seed to Avhich life runs . All life is a profuse and impulsive groAvth . Matter 2 L 2
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Carnaby The First.
Scroggins . " The heart , like old china , is all the more valuable for having been frequently broken , and as often mended . " " Cease your vain discourse , " interrupted Ignatius Loyola , " for it is noonday , ancl the sun sees us . " Here Ignatius Loyola blew his nose , and I heard a loud shout
of laughter high up the hills in the distance . " Nature , " said Ignatius , " has proidded two cradles for her great child , man—the cradle proper , ancl—the coffin . " " True ! " sighed Bob Huckaback , Avho had not yet spoken ; " our original cradle is Avhite , and our last one is black , and that is nearly all the difference . There is a noise between , and that
is all . Old women officiate at our reception into life , as also at our departure from it . Our necessities shrink to the meanest at the beginning and at the end of our time . Our glory is about as great Avhen Ave retire from it as when Ave enter upon the grand di'awing-room of life . We are poor candles , that are to burn a certain time in the wind , and then , Avith a puff , that
which men saw is gone—whither ? The jewel is tossed out , and we have the rotten setting : watch-Avheels Avithout that which comprises them into Avatch—the bag Avith the string run out and snatched away—the writing Avithout the means to read it —the horse Avithout the back upon Avhich to mount . We begin with the rattle , and end with something like it , too . We commence with the spoon , and end with the spade ; two domestic and almost as equally significant implements , of which the only difference seems to be that the one is used Avithm the house
and the other Avithout . We come noisily , and we go sdently . As shadoAvs pass along a wall , so whole generations gain the knowledge that they , at all , are but by a certain something resembling lamp-light . As wise would it be to send some one to gather up the shadows when the lamp was carried away , as to look for these human shows of past ages in the blank of
the present . O unhappy man , and most mistaken shadoAv ! perpetually purporting to yourself to be , certainly not that Avhich you appear to others , for all the sense that you have of your present life , you lived long ago . " " Life , " ejaculated Ignatius Loyola , "is the enigma of which death is the ansAver . "
At this moment a wild unicorn came running across the plain , and it was instantly pierced by the eye of Bob Huckaback . Sending out his slaves , of their fans Avherewith to make a litter to gather up the body , Bob Huckaback continued , — " Death , seen through the true spectacles , is the seed to Avhich life runs . All life is a profuse and impulsive groAvth . Matter 2 L 2