expend much money in digging duck puddles, it It is probable that the only foundation for the reviewer's statements, of a like kind, was the habit he had -of often speaking about himself in a quizzing or bantering tone. of the anonymous : is not easy to see. and for others perhaps a foolish one - Mr Edgeworth. who had known him 'intimately during thirty-six years', in answer to the reviewer. writes:-'" 'I am most anxious to contradict that I assertion It is not improbable that to avoid offensive adulation he might have said ironically that his object in writing was money. not fame. 1 have heard him say so twenty times, but I never for one moment supposed him to be in earnest. It is asserted by the reviewer "that he stooped to accept of gross Hattery". Perhaps in the inmost recesses of his heart, vanity might reign without

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expend much money in digging duck puddles, it It is probable that the only foundation for the reviewer's statements, of a like kind, was the habit he had -of often speaking about himself in a quizzing or bantering tone. of the anonymous

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is not easy to see. and for others perhaps a foolish one - Mr Edgeworth. who had known him 'intimately during thirty-six years', in answer to the reviewer. writes:-'" 'I am most anxious to contradict that I assertion It is not improbable that to avoid offensive adulation he might have said ironically that his object in writing was money. not fame. 1 have heard him say so twenty times, but I never for one moment supposed him to be in earnest. It is asserted by the reviewer "that he stooped to accept of gross Hattery". Perhaps in the inmost recesses of his heart, vanity might reign without

ABSTRACT

How it was possible to expend much money in digging duck puddles, it is not easy to see.