Show PSYCHOLOGY OF THE OYSTER James Russell Lowell Was Prepared to Add a Few Facts One of the most profound remarks ever eyer made by that profound philosopher philosopher pher Thackeray was when he passed two tubs of oysters side by side and he saw one was labeled Is ls a dozen and the other Is ls a dozen He exclaimed ex cx- claimed How those oysters must hate each other Well even an oyster 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- 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 ie y You u dont don't say so ejaculated ejaculated a nice prosy old gentleman who us used d to sleep through the the sup sup- pers The temptation was too strong to bo be resisted and nd Lowell was fairly launched Into an ac account of how a red pepper accidentally dropped Into a basket of oysters had been drawn out with ha a dozen of the bivalves clinging cling cling- ing to It when the ever gentle genUe Longfellow Longfellow Long Long- fellow Interposed to save his matter of fact old friend Womans Woman's Woman's Womans Home Com Corn panion |