Indeed, the turpentine that is in them is very good for certain sorts of diseases that are peculiar to children.

My wife will tell you so." But she did not.

She turned away in disdain and left the room; and since that time there is one episode in our life which we never refer to.
Hence the tide of our days flows by in deep and untroubled serenity.
[Very few married men have such an experience as McWilliams's, and so the author of this book thought that maybe the novelty of it would give it a passing interest to the reader.] MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen--an unusually smart child, I thought at the time.

It was then that I did my first newspaper scribbling, and most unexpectedly to me it stirred up a fine sensation in the community.

It did, indeed, and I was very proud of it, too.