By his story of the Frog he scaled the heightsof popularity at a single jump and won for himself the 'sobriquet' of TheWild Humorist of the Pacific Slope. He said: I have been thinking it out--if I live two years more I will put an endto it all. Among the published work of the Vienna period is an article about amorality play, the Master of Palmyra, --[About play-acting, Forum,October, 1898. Their games weremainly of the out-of-doors; the woods and meadows and hillside pastureswere their playground.
It was a simple, touching utterance, closing with thistender word of farewell: Robert Browning, when She was all our riches and she is gone; she was our breath, she was our life, and now we are nothing. He's justa basketful of festering, pestilent corruption, provided for the supportand entertainment of microbes. The town was buried under a mat of foliage that looked like a cushion of moss.
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