Image 114 of Theo Brown Diaries, 1948

Brown, Theophilus

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Image 114 of Theo Brown Diaries, 1948

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Thursday afternoons for verily that is my preordained occasion for making merry with my friends. And further counsel me as to the custom that obtains within thy gates upon the afternoon and evening of the Seventh day, for before the mountains were brought forth, that has ever been the appointed hour for entering my well earned rest. Yea and on the remaining evenings of the week will the inclination rather than the clock time my goings out and my comings in! Albiet I have a follower who cleaveth unto me as do the adhesive oak leaves on the wintry bough... Whither I goeth he will go and I am married he will be married. Wilt thy people be his people and wilt thou thyself pleasantly pass the time of day with him and sympath- etically bespeak the daily fluctuations of his health as night after night thou stumbles over him in thy kitchen on thy way to thy furnace fire! Shall I eat with the family, or must I beginning with the ice cream,ere it perisheth guide my rebellious stomach back to soup?" Then the householder restless in his turn replied, "Verily I say unto thee on Thursday afternoons no work shall be required of thee and the places that knew thee on the morning of the Seventh day shall know thee not again till nigh unto the midnight hour. Yea, and on the surviving evenings of the week, they inclination shall govern the hour of they arrival and departure. thy disciple shall be ever welcome and we will be solicitous concerning his physical condition and ailments inherited thru a long line of inprudent ancestors even to the earache acquired from thee. But, as to sitting on my right at the festive board is a matter not to be promised without curther consultation. But she, waving her last demand, sustained by mental reservations he wot not of, agreed to assume her new duties in the home of the householder upon the evening of the first day, and the householder departed, filled with a deep and exceeding joy. And, lo at the appointed hour he sat with his beloved in the gloaming beneaeth his own vine and horse chestnut tree awating the coming of the handmaiden.....and she came not! Here endith the first lesson.

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