Today's Stichomancy for Groucho Marx

makes my hand now shake to write of it." He learned to dance, and was "like to make a dancer." He learned to sing, and walked about Gray's Inn Fields "humming to myself (which is now my constant practice) the trillo." He learned to play the lute, the flute, the flageolet, and the theorbo, and it was not the fault of his intention if he did not learn the harpsichord or the spinet. He learned to compose songs, and burned to give forth "a scheme and theory of music not yet ever made in the world." When he heard "a fellow whistle like a bird exceeding well," he promised to return another day and give an angel for a lesson in the art. Once, he

1_Chronicles 23: 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

1_Chronicles 23: 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar, and Kish.

1_Chronicles 23: 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only; and their brethren the sons of Kish took them to wife.

1_Chronicles 23: 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

1_Chronicles 23: 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses, according to their muster, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

1_Chronicles 23: 25 For David said: 'The LORD, the God of Israel, hath given rest unto His people, and He dwelleth in Jerusalem for ever;

1_Chronicles 23: 26 and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tabernacle and all the vessels of it for the service thereof.'

1_Chronicles 23: 27 For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

1_Chronicles 23: 28 For their station was at the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

The Tanach

too true, our vices steal upon us in forms outwardly as fair as those of the demons whom the superstitious represent as intriguing with the human race, and are not discovered in their native hideousness until we have clasped them in our arms."

"But we may throw them from us, though," said Bucklaw, "and that is what I shall think of doing one of these days--that is, when old Lady Girnington dies."

"Did you ever hear the expression of the English divine?" said Ravenswood--"'Hell is paved with good intentions,'--as much as to say, they are more often formed than executed."

"Well," replied Bucklaw, "but I will begin this blessed night,

The Bride of Lammermoor

one morning he salaamed to the Lord of the Dynamos, and then when Holroyd was away, he went and whispered to the thundering machine that he was its servant, and prayed it to have pity on him and save him from Holroyd. As he did so a rare gleam of light came in through the open archway of the throbbing machine-shed, and the Lord of the Dynamos, as he whirled and roared, was radiant with pale gold. Then Azuma-zi knew that his service was acceptable to his Lord. After that he did not feel so lonely as he had done, and he had indeed been very much alone in London. And even when his work time was over, which was rare, he loitered about the shed.

Then, the next time Holroyd maltreated him, Azuma-zi went