I have known an operating surgeon, because he possessed a medical title, to be elected physician to a county hospital. I have known the surgical staff for years refuse to recognize this irregular. Yet, after all, when he became popular and unputdownable, giving in their isolated adhesions to the conqueror, not because they had altered their sentiments, but that their pockets taught them, like nature, to abhor a vacuum.

with thy golden fescue play'dst upon Thy hollow harp

Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!

When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.