The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-21

"a stale piece Of boarding school bread
scratched family with shadow of butter
Dickens appreciated the fine distinction
and laughed heartily.
| 81 remember too that he laughed when
told him how when Sir Edwin Landseel
was first presented to the king of Portugal
he (the king acknowledged the introduc-
ton, and shaking hands with Sir Edwin
said, in his half broken English: II an
most happy 10 make your acquaintance,
| Sir Edwin Landseer. / am so fond OF
beasts"
"But Dickens, as q rule, was not a laugh.
| ing man. He was q stern. cold, formal man
who had a cynical curl Of dry humor about
his mouth, but whose sense of an excessively
funny situation, in my judgment, was not
at all remarkable. He was not fine enough
to be exquisitely sensitive, and not seasi-
tive enough often to get beyond dry drollery.
When Dickens was first introduced to me
by Uncle Hector he tried to be cold to me,
but l wouldn't have it. / remorselessly
ioked him at every angle, till at last when
ever he saw me his stern face would in
variably relax into broad smile because ]
take it, he liked the change from grave
bores' to a rolicking schoolgirls fun"
DICKENS IRREGULARITIES.
Had Dickens any peculiarities that you
remember that struck you as being partic-
ularly Interestingly"
Decidedly" said the Tregear. There
never was"
interrupted by q loud clatter above our
heads that sounded as il the devil and his
imps were dancing q hornpipe or Highland
fling on the old loose shingles of the little
matched hut that ran down on ono side to
low shed.
Catching up broom as she threw down
the Dickens MSS, she ran out from under
al ~tx~<lw hal go.
looking up at the ridged roof Of the shanty
exclaimed:
'Whoosh, YOU silly rig, and get away"
at the same time furiously brandishing her
broomstick, as if to bewitch the air.
My curiosity being aroused to the highest
pitch, l stepped out to where the woman
stood and looked up.
top of the roof two frisky billy goats, one
white and the other black, standing On
either side of the ridge pole with their
horns locked over it. executing q series of
bolts and breaks that served plainly in my
mind to make the doctrine of evolution
utterly hopeless, and at the same time that
of involution, so far as the roof was con-
cerned, highly probable. At every sharp
rap OF their hoofs as the unseemly satyrs
danced on the old brown shingles, the
loose thatch flew in every direction. 1t is
needless to say that during this perform
snce the whole menagerie had walked up
and pandemonium choked the air.
In vain the broomstick was frantically
hurled at the 9ronauts. The more they
were stormed at the harder they danced
and the thicker few the shingles.
civilian William" cried the woman,
''get up, get up say, the goats are tearing
of the roof"
THE SAGE OF SNUG LAKE sHASTY
after protracted apple tree shaking sud-
only started up.
AS he did so he put his hands to his back
and stiffening in his position exclaimed !:
''Ohi Oh, my"
whats the matter." said the woman.
"Does it hurt you to wake up!'
T-I-Pve got crick in my back, :"
gssped the oracle.
"WelI, if you don't drive those goats
away they'll be tumbling through the
roof"
'.Car'line," said the sage, "never do that
again. Never wake anybody up suddenly.
It's liable ID give 'em fits. Always wake .
man up gradually"
''But look at those goats. Just hear them.
Quick! William, quick"
s'Car'lins," rigidly rejoined the oracle,
"you say quick and / say crick. / tell you
you don't understand the nature of goat
You can't scare q goat You've got to rea-
son with him, seev'
Just then q thatch with a rusty nail stick
ing in it few OF the roof from under q
sharp rap Of q hoof and took William right
in the eye. He came very near never see
ing again.
Whether due to sense Of suddenly
awakened pride, or, whether smarting
under the sling Of pain that disslpated Dun