短篇小说

The fifteenth regular toast was "The Babies--as they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities."

I will say, in conclusion, that my share of the welcome to our guest is none the less hearty because I talk so much nonsense, and I know that I can say the same for the rest of the speakers.

Sir, women have been soldiers, women have been painters, women have been poets. As long as language lives the name of Cleopatra will live.

At the end of three weeks the expedition emerged from the forest and looked upon the great Unknown World. Their eyes were greeted with an impressive spectacle.

A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great state of New York, to run against Mr. John T. Smith and Mr. Blank J. Blank on an independent ticket.

This Man Rogers happened upon me and introduced himself at the town of -----, in the South of England, where I stayed awhile.

One of the best men in Washington--or elsewhere--is RILEY, correspondent of one of the great San Francisco dailies.

Will the reader please to cast his eye over the following lines, and see if he can discover anything harmful in them?

In Philadelphia they have a custom which it would be pleasant to see adopted throughout the land. It is that of appending to published death-notices a little verse or two of comforting poetry.

I never can look at those periodical portraits in THE GALAXY magazine without feeling a wild, tempestuous ambition to be an artist.

Political Economy is the basis of all good government. The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the--

It is like an emperor lying in wait to rob a Phenix's nest, and waiting the necessary century to get the chance.