for when one has entertainment with nothing to pay, one loves the man that gives it to one.

Methinks it is but the darkness in our minds that bringeth gloom to the world.

when one wishes to do a thing, as Little John did, one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

Strike no man without need, for I would fain avoid bloodshed, but if ye do strike, strike hard, and see that there be no need to strike again.

And then, even in his trouble, he remembered the old saw that "What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured."

"For," said he to himself, "it is a hard heart that kicks the lame dog from off the sill."

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if