His teeth are good, and his eyes amber,
with small flecks of brown in them. He has been vacinated twice.
It has alwavs been one of my chief ambitions to meet a
Celebrity. On one or two occasions we have had them at school,
but they never sit at the Junior's table. Also, they are seldom
connected with either the Drama or The Movies (a slang term but
aparently taking a place in our Literature).
It was my intention, on being given this subject for my
midsummer theme, to seek out Mrs. Bainbridge, a lady Author who
has a cottage across the bay from ours, and to ask the privelege
of sitting at her feet for a few hours, basking in the sunshine
of her presence, and learning from her own lips her favorite
Flower, her favorite Poem and the favorite child of her Brain.
_Of all those arts in which the wise excel_,
_Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well_.
_Duke of Buckingham_
I had meant to write my Theme on her, but I learned in time
that she was forty years of age. Her work is therefore done. She
has passed her active years, and I consider that it is not the
past of American Letters which is at stake, but the future.
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