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Show Lord Bacon's View of "Hope." In "Aubrey's Elves," this quaint story Is told of Lord Hacon: "His lordship, being In the, garden looking on flfchors as they wore throwing their nuts, naked them what they would (ako for ihclr cast; they answered so much; his lordship would offer thorn not, moro than bo much. They drew up their not, nnd It weio only two or thteo fishes; ho told them, It had been better for them to have taken his offer, Thoy replied they hoped for a better draught, hut,, said his lordship, lord-ship, "Hoptyls a good' lueakfast hut an 111 hiipptr.'" |