Abrupt Greeting in Swinburne Visit Sparks Poetic Exchange
Scrap Book recalls a moment years ago when Joaquin Miller and Blank visited England and met Swinburne at his retreat. Watts Dunton announced Miller should come up as Swinburne spoke, asking to hear Miller’s faith and urging gentle, life‑woven discourse rather than harsh words to win souls. Wheelock
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Sierras
Blank
Packingtown
England
Swinburne
Metrist
Pal Cerberus
Watts Dunton
Jon@uin
Bisak
Boon
Dunton
Miller
Wheelock
Jokes and Droll Tales From An Old Time Page
A collection of light humor and anecdotes including Pat at heaven with St Peter the cent request and a dinner party with Victor Hugo and the thirteen at table joke, plus a clerical preacher joke and Captain Deering chasing a strolling passenger on the St John run.
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Pat
St. Peter
St Peter
Victor Hugo
Tme
Cutler
Senate
Eration
M. le Royer
Hugo
Captain Deering
Portland
St. John
Deering
Bay
Tales and Tidbits From An Old Town Paper
A fragmented reader’s scrap features a traveler guided by plaid trousered Simmons to a cascade and a wry exchange about newspaper errors. It then shifts to miscellany humor, cheerfulness, cause and effect jokes, and a tense personal crisis involving a man seeking his brother and a weapon bound stranger.
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Simmons
Not Brought Up
A Boston pastor on vacation in Maine recalls a lesson from a youth in Scarborough who, while driving a cow, declares no one brought him up. The anecdote highlights challenges of upbringing as the pastor encounters profanity along a country road.
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Boston
Maine
Pine Tree
Scarboro
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