[T]he testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the short ribbs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.

I'm not trying to console you because your kid didn't get into HYPS or her first choice, or your beloved alma mater.

We learn that “Mr. G. Linnæus Banks, the eminent Shakespearologist and Shakespearolator,” is coming to America to “orate.”

She had been even bespattered with praise, so abundantly had it been showered upon her;