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I wol you tell a litel thing in prose. That oughte liken you, as I suppose. Or elles certes ye be to dangerous. It is a moral tale vertuous. Al be it told sometimes in sondry wise. Of sondry folk, as I shall you devise. --Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
JUST as a bale of wool is dumped, by hydraulic pressure, to less than half its normal size, I scientifically compressed something like twenty-four hours' sleep into the interval between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Then a touch of what you call dyspepsia and I call laziness, kept me debating with myself for another swift-running hour. So it was getting on for nine o'clock when I sat down to breakfast with Mrs. Ferguson, the two servant girls, and the husband already glanced at. All the boarders had by this time dispersed for the forenoon.