Bits of Blarney

Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) · 1880

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. MY DEAR SIR:--The deified heroes of the Norse mythology are believed to spend their afternoons in drinking something stronger than lemonade out of their enemies' skulls, and some ill-natured persons, seizing on the idea, have declared that publishers use the skulls of their authors as drinking-cups, in the same manner. For my own part, I discredit the assertion--as far as my relations with yourself enable me to judge; I suspect that the time has gone by when Napoleon's health was drank as "a friend of literature," because he had shot a bookseller; and I give you unlimited permission to u…

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