...stabs and slays: Blatant he bids the world bow down, Or cringing begs a crust of praise; AN AMERICAN Or, sombre-drunk, at mine and mart, He dubs his dreary...drumming guns that — have no doubts; That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire, That gilds the slough of his despond But...

...not primarily criminal. It is to remember a very unflattering verse : The cynic devil in his blood That bids him flout the law he makes, That bids him...he wakes The drumming guns — that have no doubts. Shade Trees. — A recent decision of the appellate division of the New York supreme court affirming...

...savors of the native soil. He is blatant and boastful. His "hurrying soul " is mocked by the cynic devil "That bids him flout the law he makes, That bids him make the law he flouts." The American, with his "acrid asiatic mirth, is a scoffer at dignities." Even when he "dubs his dreary...