Elizabeth Kohn would like the text of a story about a town ringed by chasms, where the elders meet to discuss whether to build a fence around the town or buy an ambulance to drive those who fall into a chasm to the hospital.

William Moldoff asks who first said, "A rising tide lifts all boats."

Albert Harris is looking for a poem containing the lines "The dew lay damp upon the sleeping grass./ In down-soft slippers she hurried through it./...'You will not always love me like this,/ But I ask you to remember.'/ And the dew has seemed like teardrops ever since."

Glenn Bair wonders whether anyone knows who first said, "A man is known by the company he keeps."

Wilson Binger asks who wrote a novel about a boy of 14 who uses book-learning, but no money, to travel from the United States to Europe. Binger also asks where William James said that the most important thing in later life is "the work, the work, the work."

Austen Tierney asks for the source of the statement "whose remembrance yet lives in men's eyes," which is used in George Price's 1883 book Across the Continent with the Fifth Cavalry to describe a deceased officer.

David Todd seeks the source of the quotation "Think not lightly of the farthing that I had to give, now and then, for ink, pen, or paper. That farthing was, alas! a great sum to me."