Unicorns

Unicorns

The original punctuation and spelling were retained, with the exception of a few printer's mistakes. The text contains also inconsistently spelled words. The full list of both changes to the text and the inconsistencies in spelling can be found at the end of this file. All the corrections are marked with a dashed line and the original text should appear on hovering the mouse over it. Copyright, 1906, by THE NEW YORK HERALD COMPANY Copyright, 1907, by THE RIDGEWAY COMPANY Copyright, 1909, 1911, 1916, 1917, by THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Copyright, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, by THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY Copyright, 1915, 1916, by PUCK PUBLISHING CO. Copyright, 1917, by NORTH AMERICAN Copyright, 1917, by THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL He is a fribble, a sonsy faddle, whose conceits veer with the breeze like a creaking weather-vane. As the sterile moon hath her librations, so must he boast of his oscillations, thinking them eternal verities. A very cockatoo in his perched-up vanity and prodigious clatter.... In the golden book of wit and wisdom, Through the Looking-Glass, the Unicorn rather disdainfully remarks that he had believed children to be fabulous monsters. Alice smilingly retorts: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" "Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?" "Yes, if you like," said Alice. No such ambiguous bargains are needed to demonstrate the existence of Unicorns. That is, not for imaginative people. A mythical monster, a heraldic animal, he figures in the dictionary as the Monoceros, habitat, India; and he is the biblical Urus, sporting one horn, a goat beard and a lion's tail. He may be all these things for practical persons; no man is a genius to his wife. But maugre that he is something more for dreamers of dreams; though [Pg 2] not the Hippogriff, with its liberating wings, volplaning through the Fourth Dimension of Space; nor yet is he tender Undine, spirit of fountains, of whom the Unicorn asked: "By the waters of what valley has jealous mankind hidden the source of your secrets?" (Cousin german to the Centaur of Maurice de Gurin, he can speak in like cadence.) ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 39116
Author: Huneker, James
Release Date: Mar 12, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English