...the joy to come. This incident brought to my mind the lines of the poet Burns, wherein he says : " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley, And lea'e us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." Now all those that were going were hurrying on...

...that you undertook to bring out this book yourself!" " Yes, yes," said he, with perfect good humour. " But' the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.' And I do not grudge to some other what might have been mine—I mean the association of one's name with...

...showing how, notwithstanding a large amount of caution, his efforts terminated disastrously ! • • The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." Beview Nov. 1 1894. NOTABILIA. The author, who...

...and showing how, notwithstanding a large amount of caution, his efforts terminated disastrously ! " The best laid schemes o* mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." Eeview. Nov. 1. 1K94. PlOTABILIA. Review, Nov....

...lay, in part, to my friend HC Sands, who had told me that he was sure the meeting would last two days. But " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley." i884.J means at its command to accomplish all its purposes. The main thing it has in view for the present,...

...office that has cast a glamour over John, the inner and holier that has captivated Miriam. But, alas ! " The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley." And "agley" they are going, silently but surely, in the history of these three souls. Yet there is joy...

...quite differently from what I had planned. Robert Burns tells us in his ode "To a Mouse," that • • The best laid schemes o' mice and men, Gang aft a-gley." And so it was with my last cruise in the Margue rite, in what proved to be the closing year of the war,...

...might be brought home announcing the successful arrival of the fleet in the recently-discovered "sea." But, "The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e ue nought but grief and pain For promised joy." Massive ice rendered Vaigat's Strait impassable...

...zeal, denounced the infamous Maddox, and impugned the veracity of Captain Vere. His was a case where the best laid "schemes o' mice and men, gang aft agley," and his proud boast that, " in spite of King George and all the people in the world, he would revisit Derby,"...

...zeal, denounced the infamous Maddox, and impugned the veracity of Captain Vere. His was a case where the best laid "schemes o' mice and men, gang aft agley," and his proud boast that, " in spite of King George and all the people in the world, he would revisit Derby,"...