New Walks in Old Ways 



his mind, without any desire to rob a 

 hen roost or commit a crime of any 

 sort against anybody, get up at any 

 hour he pleased, and walk boldly and 

 man-fashion out through his own door- 

 way, through his own lawn, through 

 his own gate, at any hour of the day or 

 night he saw fit, without having to 

 play the part of a wretch outside the 

 law? I was not accustomed to such 

 tactics, and I did not like it; but I was 

 going to see Venus, our nearest celestial 

 neighbor, in one of her most brilliant 

 moods, now at the nearest point in her 

 orbit, at any cost to my pride and self- 

 respect; so I went through with it. 



I will not undertake any description 

 of the golden crescent that was dis- 

 closed by the glasses in my hands. I 

 saw what I set out to see, and got back 

 to bed without being shot for a burglar, 

 and that is something in this land of 

 conventionalities! If any of the rest 

 of you care to know how the planet 

 carries her glory in this particular 

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