Friday, 17 September 2010
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
It would be hard to match this castle in Kansas; wouldn't it, little Dorothy?
Monday, 6 September 2010
The American Claimant by Mark Twain
Castellated college-buildings--towers and turrets and an
imitation moat--and everything about the place named out of Sir Walter
Scott's books and redolent of royalty and state and style; and all the
richest girls keep phaetons, and coachmen in livery, and riding-horses,
with English grooms in plug hats and tight-buttoned coats, and top-boots,
and a whip-handle without any whip to it, to ride sixty-three feet behind
them.
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