...both have often helped to put " a head on the beer."] Why was Charles I. a phenomenon ? Because he walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off ! When Charles I. was beheaded, off what dish did the executioner dine, and where ? He took a chop...

...Tristram did ; "it was Charles the First after he was beheaded. Don't you know, Bob Minor, that he walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off?" "Did he?" exclaimed the child. Then seeing his companions were laughing at him instead of the donkey-man,...

...another meaning. I daresay you have heard the old joke on the want of a semicolon — " Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off." This implies an impossibility. The sentence should read — "Charles the First walked and talked ;...

...once more after death. In other words, that the old antithetical rhyming epigram, "Charles the First walked and talked, Half an hour after his head was cut off," is true whichever way you read it. Now superficially regarded, there is not a great deal of difference...

...illustrative of this fact, but which, of course, is not to be interpreted literally, that King Charles I. walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off; and I myself have seen fowls leap into the air and run about for some seconds after decapitation."...

...illustrative of this fact, but which, of course, is not to be interpreted literally, that King Charles I. walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off; and I myself have seen fowls leap into the air and run about for some seconds after decapitation."...

...victim separated from the thorax. One is reminded by this of the old punctuation puzzle : " King Charles walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off." 10. The dragon-fly can devour its own body and the dead still live. This seeming paradox is measurably...

...victim separated from the thorax. One is reminded by this of the old punctuation puzzle : " King Charles walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off." i o. The dragon-fly can devour its own body and the dead still live. This seeming paradox is measurably...

...this purpose. SENTENCES THAT NEED STOPS HERE is a very startling statement: King Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off. We might doubt the accuracy of this, but when we know that there should be a semicolon after talked,...

...scenery. Meanwhile let us have good talk as we tramp the lanes. Nursery lore tells us that "Charles I walked and talked : half an hour after his head was cut off." Mr. Sidgwick evidently thinks that it was a case not merely of post hoc but propter hoc, an example...