...while we applaud the heroic, let us pity the weak and contemn the wrong. CHAPTER IX. NIEL AND REDCAR. * The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." Burns. |RE you disappointed in not going to Cambridge,...

...coulter past Out thro' thy cell. But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane l In proving foresight may be bain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and vain, For promised joy. BUBNS. A SEA-SHELL. See what a lovely shell,...

...the lasses, O ! * Green grotr the Rashet. Some wee short hour ayont the twal. Death and Dr. Hornbouk. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. To a Sfomt. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless...

...the ship would drift on the coast of Wrangel Land, or to the northeast toward Prince Patrick Land. But " the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley." As we crowded to the west, the ice set in behind and effectually cut off all chances of retreat, unless...

...his general governor Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who himself, or by deputy, was to reside in the country. But " the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley." The attempt to vacate the charter of Massachusetts Bay, a fundamental thing to be done, was not accomplished....

...recent days of our own great rebellion — June 19, 1864. But a well-known poet has told us that " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley," and this even the over-confident conspirators discovered. For, before they could reach the castle on the...

...into his bosom, and turning away towards his own quarters is seen no more that night. CHAPTER XVIII. . The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. — B. BURNS. ALL next day Lilian treats him...

...Australian wing of the Royal Flying Corps, which would have meant several weeks' training in England, but "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley ! " — and there's a Science shapes our ends, rough-hack them though Huns may ! A TRAVELLER IN WAR-TIME BY WINSTON...

...this signal we would all hustle back to our own galleries and shaft-head as quickly as possible. " The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley" and our luck was not good on this stunt. The other two officers were senior to me and, as usual in such...

...my alma mater ; as the days went by these anticipations crystalized into the purpose to be present ; but " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley, " and those of women also ; for an unexpected and little later trip prevents this one of Aug. 10 ; my enjoyment,...