Show PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OYSTER James Russell Lowell Was Prepared to Add a Few Facts Ono of thc most profound remarks ever made by that profound philosopher philoso-pher Thackeray was when ho passed two tubs of oysters side by side nnd ho saw one was labeled Is a dozen and tho other Is 3d a dozen Ho exclaimed ex-claimed How those oysters must hate each other Well even an oyster may bo crossed In love and William Dean Hewells has another taloto tell anent the psychology of tho oyster At one of the little suppers that tho poet Longfellow gave to tho brilliant Cam bridge critic James Russell Lowell paused with tho pepper box poised above his plate of oysters to say whimsically Its astonishing how these fellows love pepper Dear mol You dont say so ejacu kited II nice prosy old gentleman who rsed to sleep through tho sup pers The temptation was too strong to bo resisted and Lowell was fairly launched Into an account of how a red pepper accidentally dropped into a basket or oysters had been drawn out m with half a dozeu of the bivalves cling nil to It I when the over gentle Long fellow interposed to save his mattorof fact old frlendWomans Homo Com pnnion |