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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
colossal , Brobdignagian , Watteau picture , adapted to academic costume , and much prettier girls than Watteau ever thought of , —to say Avhat a fiction the flowers Avere , and Avhat a reality the faces were , would take a volume of our full-paged octavo size . Some painters hold that sheep are essential to a landscape ; all Ave can say isthat Ave do not care a straw about sheepprovided
, , we have plenty of young ladies . We could write all this , though ; but Ave could not describe how proud Alfred felt of his pretty wife ( for who coidd doubt what they Avere talking about ?) , and IIOAV his fastest friends agreed that if " it Avas a case , " or if " Hal Avas a gone ' coon , " there Avere few among them who Avould not change their
fortunes for his . De Boots went home in a fit of melancholy , and took so many solemn resolutions to read—that we are really afraid he didn't keep them . " So you did get the prize poem , Alfred , " said Leila , as she leant more closely on his arm , as he led her to the carriage which Avas to take them from the gardens .
"Say , rather , you got it for me , " replied Alfred ; " and , dearest , " he added , " if success meet my next efforts , it Avill be you—you only ; nay , rather , you and your kindest of fathers , to AAdiom I owe all . " Winter came , and Alfred left his affianced bride only to return and claim her with the increased glories of a first class . For a " fellowship" he cared little : alas ! ( but with good reason ) one cannot marry on a college fellowship .
The prettiest Adlla near Richmond now sends the most diligent of juvenile barristers down to the Temple , and the prettiest of wives welcomes that same young barrister , as he returns home with a faultless punctuality with Avhich even business is scarcely allowed to interfere . A sound and happy , perhaps a high and distinguished careerlies spread before Alfred ; but he is only as
, ambitious as a perfectly contented man should be . When Leila ' s first little boy saAv the light , she smiled divinely upon her husband , and said , " Will he ever Avin the prize poem ? "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
colossal , Brobdignagian , Watteau picture , adapted to academic costume , and much prettier girls than Watteau ever thought of , —to say Avhat a fiction the flowers Avere , and Avhat a reality the faces were , would take a volume of our full-paged octavo size . Some painters hold that sheep are essential to a landscape ; all Ave can say isthat Ave do not care a straw about sheepprovided
, , we have plenty of young ladies . We could write all this , though ; but Ave could not describe how proud Alfred felt of his pretty wife ( for who coidd doubt what they Avere talking about ?) , and IIOAV his fastest friends agreed that if " it Avas a case , " or if " Hal Avas a gone ' coon , " there Avere few among them who Avould not change their
fortunes for his . De Boots went home in a fit of melancholy , and took so many solemn resolutions to read—that we are really afraid he didn't keep them . " So you did get the prize poem , Alfred , " said Leila , as she leant more closely on his arm , as he led her to the carriage which Avas to take them from the gardens .
"Say , rather , you got it for me , " replied Alfred ; " and , dearest , " he added , " if success meet my next efforts , it Avill be you—you only ; nay , rather , you and your kindest of fathers , to AAdiom I owe all . " Winter came , and Alfred left his affianced bride only to return and claim her with the increased glories of a first class . For a " fellowship" he cared little : alas ! ( but with good reason ) one cannot marry on a college fellowship .
The prettiest Adlla near Richmond now sends the most diligent of juvenile barristers down to the Temple , and the prettiest of wives welcomes that same young barrister , as he returns home with a faultless punctuality with Avhich even business is scarcely allowed to interfere . A sound and happy , perhaps a high and distinguished careerlies spread before Alfred ; but he is only as
, ambitious as a perfectly contented man should be . When Leila ' s first little boy saAv the light , she smiled divinely upon her husband , and said , " Will he ever Avin the prize poem ? "