Show I PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OYSTER James Russell Lowell Was Prepared to Add a Few Facts One of the most profound remarks ever over made by that profound p philosopher philosopher pher Thackeray was when he passed two tubs of oysters side by side and he saw one was labeled Is a dozen and the other Is a dozen He exclaimed ex e. claimed How those oysters must hate each other Well even an o oyster st r may be crossed In love and William Dean Howells has another tale to tell anent the psychology of the oyster At one of the little suppers that the poet Longfellow gave to the brilliant Cambridge Cambridge Cam Cam- Cambridge bridge critic James Russell Lowell paused with the pepper box poised above his plate of oysters to say whimsically Its astonishing how these fellows love pepper Dear me mie You dont don't say so ejaculated ejaculated a n nice ce prosy old gentleman who used to sleep through the sup sup- pers The temptation was too strong to be resisted and Lowell was fairly launched into an account of how a red pepper accidentally dropped Into a basket of oysters had been drawn out with half a dozen of the bivalves clinging cling cling- ing lag to it when the ever gentle LongI Longfellow Long Long- I fellow interposed to save his of matter-of- fact old friend Womans Woman's Woman's Womans Home ComI Com Corn I panion vanlon |