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mont of viands, there are certain stand-bys 

 which are pretty sure to be acceptable day 

 in and day out ; and roast beef is very 

 good as a steady diet, if only now and then 

 we can have just a soup&amp;lt;jon of horseradish 

 to make the accent. In media tutissimus 

 ibis, but we hardly know how much we 

 are enjoying ourselves there unless now and 

 then we have an opportunity to knock our 

 shins against the curbstone on one side or 

 other of the path. 



Homekeeping youth have ever homely wits, 



and in the endeavour to avoid this reproach 

 in my own case, I once upon a time made 

 a voyage to the Bermudas. And such a 

 voyage ! Was it ever your fortune to cross 

 the Gulf Stream in January or in February 

 on board the Trinidad or the Orinoco? If it 

 was, nothing more needs to be said. Since 

 that time, when I have made the stormy 

 passage in the frail ferry-boats between 

 New York and Brooklyn, or risked the 

 waves of the wild Atlantic on the way to 

 Staten Island, I have thought of the revolu 

 tionary efforts of that other craft in the 

 Sargasso Sea, and have contented myself 

 with the spice of memory as a sufficient 

 flavour for the mild joys of the present. 



