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Show PSYCHOLOGY OF THE 0Y8TER, James Russell Lowell Was Prepared to Add a Few "Facts." One ot the most profound remarks ever mado by that profound phlloso-phor, phlloso-phor, Thackeray, was whon ho passed two tuba ot oysters sldo by side and lio saw ono was labolod "Is a dozen" and tho other "Is 3d a dozen." lie exclaimed: ex-claimed: "How those oystors must hato each other." Well, "even an oyster may bo caossed In love,", and William Dean iiowuns nas nnother talo to tell anent tho psychology of tho oystor. At ono of tho llttlo suppors that tho poet Longfellow gavo to tho brilliant Cambridge Cam-bridge critic James Russell Lowell paused with tho pepper box poised abovo his plato of oystors to Bay whlmslcallyt "It's astonishing how those fellows lovo pepper." ' "Dear mol You don't say so!" ejaculated ejacu-lated a nice, prosy old gontleman who used to sleep through tho suppers. sup-pers. The temptation was too strong to bo resisted, and Lowell was fairly launched Into an account ot how a red pepper, accidentally dropped Into a basket ot oysters, had been drawn out with halt a dozen at tho bivalves clinging cling-ing to It, whon tho over gentlo Long-follow Long-follow Interposed to save bis matter-of-fact old friend. Woman's Homo Companion. |