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The likes o ' sich a jabbering , and a smirking , and a parley-wouing as he begin 'd wid her leddyship , niver was known before upon arth ; and divil may burn me if it was n't me own very two peepers that cotch 'd him tipping her the wink out of one eye . ' " The Hunter 's Vow is , we think , the best of the series . And you accuse me of redundant figure , because you are not much troubled yourself with the throes of imagination - - just as G - - H - - abuses eloquence because there is no chord in his heart that responds to its notes . The Minute Men is the last of the series , and from its being told by the author himself , is , we suppose , considered by him the best . In the first place , of course , - - as the opening word was ' So , ' - - he made a plunge into the capital S hole and came out in triumph with a capital S. Elated by this success , he immediately threw himself upon the little-o box with a blindfold impetuosity - - but who shall describe his horror when his fingers came up without the anticipated letter in their clutch ? Death approaches ; and the shadow which foreruns him has thrown a softening influence over my spirit . The mere dandy we despise as a thing whose definition the great American lexicographer has given in the following appropriate terms - - " a male of the human species who dresses himself like a doll , and carries his character on his back . And why , above all , announce yourself as editor in a title-page , merely to proclaim yourself author in a preface ? But I shall tire you and catch cold - - so with our united love to Mrs. Rice , my dear Harriet , and yourself , good night . I look at the eyes beaming with intelligence ; I contemplate the refined intellects ; I see their rich fruits in public and honorable employment ; I recall the memory of others who are far distant , but whose thoughts are mingling with ours upon this occasion ; who have carried with them the seeds of virtue and wisdom which they gathered here , and in other lands , have brought forth the noblest results of usefulness and honorable consideration . That he was overcome by the wine just swallowed , was the idea which most readily presented itself ; and , rather with a view to the preservation of my own character in the eyes of my associates , than from any less interested motive , I was about to insist , peremptorily , upon a discontinuance of the play , when some expressions at my elbow from among the company , and an ejaculation evincing utter despair on the part of Glendinning , gave me to understand that I had effected his total ruin under circumstances which , rendering him an object for the pity of all , should have protected him from the ill offices even of a fiend . We appear to be perfectly happy to give to poor people when we can choose which poor people get our resources and when the government is not involved . I had but one consolation — in the fact that the imitation , apparently , was noticed by myself alone , and that I had to endure only the knowing and strangely sarcastic smiles of my namesake himself . The other major flaw in the troop-number argument , which goes back to the beginning of the war , is the notion that we are in Iraq for the Iraqi people 's welfare and that we are preventing Iraq from becoming a radical Islamist terrorist state . His style therefore is highly artificial ; but the extreme finish and proportion always observable about it , render this artificiality , which in less able hands would be wearisome , in him a grace inestimable . He does not claim for the Legends the authenticity of history properly so called , yet all are partially facts , and however extravagant [ page 65 :] some may appear , they will all , to use the words of the author himself , " be found in the works of sage and reverend chroniclers of yore , growing side by side with long acknowledged truths , and might be supported by learned and imposing references in the margin . The " villain , unmuffle yourself , " of Mr. H. is precisely paralleled by a passage at page 56 of " William Wilson . We only regret that the limits of our Magazine will not permit us to pay him that full tribute of commendation , which , under other circumstances , we should be so eager to pay .