Chapter C: D. WARNER, My Summer in a Garden

Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order, when
A church of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen,
And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.

BRET HARTE, _Complete Works_.

"I was born, Signora, on New Year's Night,
1800." "Did I not tell you," said the Marquis,
"that he is one of the first men of our century?"

HEINRICH HEINE, _Travel Pictures_.

When dinner has opprest one,
I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour
Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four.

LORD BYRON, _Don Juan_.

As a boy, George Washington gave no promise of
the greatness he was one day to achieve. He
was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments
of youth. He could not even lie. But then he
never had any of those precious advantages which are
within the reach of the humblest of the boys of the
present day. Any boy can lie now. I could lie before
I could stand.

MARK TWAIN, _Choice Works_.

By the way, Shakespeare endorses polygamy. He
speaks of the Merry Wives of Windsor. How
many wives did Mr. Windsor have?