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Esther looks anything but olda trifle matronly, we admitbut old we emphatically say she is not; her hair is parted plainly, and the tiniest of all tiny caps sits at the back of her head, looking as if it felt it had no business on such raven black hair, and ought to be ignominiously dragged off without one word of apology.

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THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE [Illustration: EDGAR ALLAN POE.] EDGAR ALLAN POE CHAPTER I THE ARTIST IN WORDS Who has not felt the weird fascination of Poe's strangely beautiful poem "The Raven"?

For years people thought that Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition," in which he tells in what a cold-blooded way he wrote "The Raven," was a joke; but in later times we have learned to understand what he meant and to know that he was very sensible in his methods of working.

As a poem written in early youth we should not expect this to be as perfect as "The Raven," for instance.

Next to "The Raven," Poe's most famous work is that fascinating story, "The Gold-Bug," perhaps the best detective story that was ever written, for it is based on logical principles which are instructive as well as interesting.

* CHAPTER XI HOW "THE RAVEN" WAS WRITTEN

"The Raven" was published in New York just two years before Mrs. Poe died; it instantly made its author famous, although it brought him little or no money.

We have spoken of Poe as a story-writer, and now in "The Raven" we see him a great poet.

To illustrate this he told how he wrote "The Raven."

The essay in which he tells how he wrote "The Raven," begins by saying that when he thought of writing it he decided that it must not be too long nor too short.

When you read "The Raven" you hardly know what the poet is saying; but you feel the ghostly scene, and it makes you shudder; and there is a strange fascination about it that makes you like it, even if it is horrible.

At first he thought he would have a parrot utter it; but a raven can talk as well as a parrot, and is more picturesque.

He would ask questions, and the raven would always reply by croaking "Nevermore."

' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'

Let us scan the first two lines of "The Raven": "Ónce up | ón a mídnight | dréary, || whíle I | póndered | wéak and | wéary, Óver | mány a | quáint and | cúrious | vólume |

By Edgar A. Poe," was published by Wiley and Putnam, and in the same year "The Raven and Other Poems" appeared in book form from the same publishing house.

No such memorial was needed, however, for American hearts will never cease to thrill at the weird, beautiful music of "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven.

For instance, he writes There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge.

They detected witches, had bodily encounters with the enemy of mankind in his own shape, or could discover him as, lurking in the disguise of a raven, he inspired the rhetoric of a Quaker's meeting.

And Emily, with her sweet grey Irish eyes, and her curling masses of raven-black hair, would cry in penitent shame over her unworthiness, with some vague idea that those royal, and to her very real ancestors, would despise her small sweet rosebud self, as wholly unworthy of their disreputable majesties.

This account was received from the minister himself,David P., who died in Chelsea, Mass., in Dec. 1875, and subsequently from his wife,and communicated to a correspondent of 'The Christian.'" "GOD'S RAVEN.

"With clasped hands the woman breathed a few words of thanksgiving first, and then said, 'O, Mrs. A, you are indeed God's raven, sent by him to bring us food to-day, for we have not tasted any yet.

I would be a very raven among those splendid birds of paradise," said the young man, a trifle scornfully.

So when he assured me he could turn my hair to as sweet a raven-black as Master Poynsett's, I thought it would be pleasing to all, forgetting that he could not dye my eyes, and that their effect would have been some degrees more comical.

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In 1868 I sat down to dinner with a band of ravenous sheep-shearers at a ranch on the San Joaquin, where fifteen or twenty hives were kept, and our host advised us not to spare the large pan of honey he had placed on the table, as it was the cheapest article he had to offer.

The silurus, a large and ravenous fish, which abounds in the Danube, gives daily proof of it.

"Allegra is prettier, I think, but as obstinate as a mule, and as ravenous as a vulture; health good, to judge by the complexion, temper tolerable, but for vanity and pertinacity.

one by one, by sword And ravenous plague, all perished: every tear Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board 305 A British ship I waked, as from a trance restored.

That was a welcome sound to a set of ravenous boys, and they quickly assembled around the rude table upon which the black chef was placing heaps of flapjacks, flanked by steaming cups of fragrant coffee.

After his breath was gone, Forced perforce thus from his panting breast, Straight they despoiled him; and not alone Contented with his death, on the dead corpse, Which ravenous beasts forbear to lacerate, Even upon this our villains fresh begun To show new cruelty; forthwith they pierce His naked belly, and unripp'd it so, That out the bowels gush'd.

The Austrians had some advantage in the beginning; and their irregular troops, who are always daring, and are always ravenous, broke into the Prussian camp, and carried away the military chest.

For as the ravenous lion deals with his prey, so likewise did the fair king raven amongst his enemies.

But, to his grief, he finds himself too near, And feels his ravenous dogs with fury tear Their wretched master, panting in a deer.

At nightfall, a pack of ravenous wolves, headed by a large white one, serenaded us, and came near enough to our camp-fire to seize a small terrier belonging to one of the party.

We soon discovered his remains in the sand, denuded of every particle of flesh and muscle by the vultures and the ravenous wolves.

Camelin, of Trionne, in Upper Burgundy, a girl of sixteen, who, at the peril of her life, had engaged a ravenous wolf in single combat, killed him, and thereby saved her flock.

The ravenous earthe, that eatts what it hathe fedd, Hathe swallowd it.

They have ravenous appetites, and curiosity to match, and anything will do to fill up this aching void.

The Ballantynes also were ravenous for more money; but they could get nothing from Blackwood and Murray before the promised work was finished.

with backs upreared their coils unbend, Extend their ravenous jaws with a loud roar That harshly comes from mouths of clotted gore.

In less than a minute its body was gone toofeathers and bones and alldown Crusoe's ravenous throat.

Such fancies well apply to a part of Nature which shifts like the sands, and ranges from the hideous Cuttle-fish and ravenous Shark to the delicate Medusa, whose graceful form and trailing tentacles float among the waving fronds of colored Algae, like "Sabrina fair, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair.

Now they are absolutely ravenous.

The dogs are as thin as rakes; they are ravenous and very tired.

A second and a third followed, alike torn to pieces by the ravenous pen of Balzac.

Then we had fun at the milking; it required a dozen strong men to hold one kicking cow while a woman, squeezed out a little milk from the reluctant udders, though she gave down freely later when the ravenous calf took hold.

About the same time, the Roxolani or Russians, became known in history, making their debut in the character of pirates, ravenous for booty, and hungry for the pillage of Constantinoplea longing which 900 years have not yet satisfied.

They landed at the little wharf, among the colliers, and made their way up the street to an inn, where, after ordering a meal to satisfy the ravenous sea-appetite, Mr. Fellowes, after a few words with Naomi, left the ladies to their land toilet, while he went to hire horses for the journey.

"Give me everything, Michelham," said his lordship, "I am ravenous.

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