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Charles S. Brooks. Chimney-Pot Papers
Chimney-Pot Papers
Table of Contents
The Chimney-Pots
The Quest of the Lost Digamma
On a Rainy Morning
"1917."
On Going Afoot
On Livelihoods
The Tread of the Friendly Giants
On Spending a Holiday
Runaway Studies
On Turning Into Forty
On the Difference Between Wit and Humor
On Going to a Party
On a Pair of Leather Suspenders
Boots for Runaways
On Hanging a Stocking at Christmas
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Charles S. Brooks
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It would be unjust to assume that you are so poor a student as myself. Doubtless you are a scholar and can discourse deeply of the older centuries. You know the ancient works of Tweedledum and can distinguish to a hair's breadth 'twixt him and Tweedledee. Learning is candy on your tooth. Perhaps you stroke your sagacious beard and give a nimble reason for the lightning. To you the hills have whispered how they came, and the streams their purpose and ambition. You have studied the first shrinkage of the earth when the plains wrinkled and broke into mountain peaks. The mystery of the stars is to you as familiar as your garter. If such depth is yours, I am content to sit before you like a bucket below a tap.
At your banquet I sit as a poor relation. If the viands hold, I fork a cold morsel from your dish. …
