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and in memory of old times the guests naturally waited for the idiot to begin do you know he said as he squeezed the juice from a luscious lemon over an unprotesting oyster at the same time glancing affectionately over the company

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the color goes very well with the hangings and the space the books occupy eked out by a dozen others of the same color gives to that top shelf all the esthetic effect of an attractive and tasteful

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then too it is always well he added with a sly wink at mrs idiot to have a lot of books for a top shelf that is difficult to reach that nothing under the canopy could induce you to read

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best thing's to get rid of em altogether pa he said mollie and i'll squash em for you for fi cents apiece which struck the poet as the most practical idea that had been advanced during the discussion

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the idiot offered his visitors a cigar thank you said the bibliomaniac taking his and sniffing at it with all the airs and graces of a connoisseur

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but he didn't do a thing to me that day he added climbing on his father's knee and snuggling down against his vest-pocket with a sweet little sigh of satisfaction

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all right pa replied tommy i thought maybe you knew i thought you said you knew everything illustration possessed a library of first editions in accordance with the idiot's suggestion the invitations were sent out

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a little figure clad in white ably supported by a still smaller figure also clad in white but with an additional ruffle about the neck both of them barefooted appeared in the doorway

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the other invited guests were no less perplexed by the final words of the idiot's invitation and with the pleasure of accepting was mingled an agreeable curiosity to know what was meant by last call

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if they would leave it on the dining-room table within easy reach the children would soon cease to regard it as a thing to be sought for make jam a required article of diet and the little ones will soon cease to want it so with that book

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man does not make the age the age makes the man had there been any inspiring influences at work to give him a motive an incentive dryden might have been a greater poet to excel his fellows was all that could rightly be expected of him and that he did

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two certainly said the idiot tommy and mollie but there is mary your old housemaid we can't very well ask them to dine with us you know i don't see why tommy and mollie can't be invited said mr pedagog much to the idiot's surprise

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they want to do what they cannot do that is why when mothers place jam on the top shelf of the pantry the children always climb up to get it

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and now possessed a library of first editions that auctioneers looked upon with envious eyes and which aroused the hatred of many another collector the doctor had prospered equally and was now one of the most successful operators for appendicitis

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if they had had that fun just once instead of squandering their savings on clothes and the theatre and on horses you'd find every blessed one of those chaps thronging the hardware shops all day and spending their money there

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i will said mollie and she did so the old schoolmaster returned the little girl's salute with emphasis bless you little one he said huskily i love you even as i loved your papa

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my son tommy has learned more of geography from a visit to the circus where those animals are shown than he ever learned from books i can quite see likewise the utilitarian value of the mosquito he keeps the sea-shore from being overcrowded and he prevents some people from sleeping too much

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the idiot had become a partner in the business of his father-in-law and even in bad times had managed to save something until now with two children aged five and six he found himself the possessor of his own home in a suburban city

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i have myself observed that extraordinary episodes of this nature generally happen when it is the father who is left in charge of the children quite right mrs pedagog said the doctor nodding his head gravely

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the home life of mr and mrs idiot had been all that either of the young people could have wished for and prosperity had waited upon them in all things

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as a matter of fact the bringing up of children should be left to the mother oh but the father should have something to do with it interrupted mrs idiot it is too great a responsibility to place on a woman's shoulders

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well i don't see why there can't be a division of responsibility said the poet who had never married and who knew children only as a theory let the mothers look after them in the daytime and the fathers at night

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now that we are finally settled in our new house i move we celebrate let's give a dinner to my old friends of mrs smithers's they were nice old people and i should like to get them together again

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does he suspect them of lacking completeness or variety the idiot tapped his forehead significantly he didn't know whether they take after you or after me but i relieved his mind on that score he said

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do you know anything about the habits of moths repeated the idiot moths echoed the poet eying the idiot closely the transition from live wires to moths proving rather too sudden for his comprehension

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and like all other men of wealth i must become a wanderer i shudder to think of what might have happened if i'd made a million i shouldn't have had a home at all then

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you don't mean to say said the poet with a frown that you made your wife get up and take all the trouble and bother id only have been in the way said the idiot meekly

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his father a simple old gentleman he with nursery rhyme and once on a time would tell him the story of little bo p so pretty was she so pretty and wee as pretty as pretty as pretty could be

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