Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. (wikipedia)
I do remember some pleasant times I had with my little friend. That sounds like an Irishman's toast, doesn't it.
I really have a desire to do a certain kind of work, but deliver me from the class who cut up their relatives to see how their corpuscles match up.