Over the Teacups - Classic Reprint Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes TIns series of papers wa.s begun in march, 1888. A single number was printed, when it was interrupted by the course of cvcnts, and not resumed until nearly two years later, in Ja.n nary, 1890. The plan of the series was not formed in my mind when I wrote the first number. In returning to Iny task I found that my original plan bad shaped itself i... more »n the underground laboratory of my thought so tlmt some changes had to be made in what I had written. As I proceeded, the slight story which formed a part of my programme developed itself without nny need of nluch contrivance ou my part. Gi yen certain characters in 0. wl'iter's conception, if they arc real to him, as they ought to be, they will act in sueh or such a way, according to the law of their nature. It was pretty safe to assume that intimate relations would spring up between some members of our mixed company; and it was not rash to conjecture that some of these intimacies might cuu in such attachment as would furni
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