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...ball manager on the first bal- FRANK B. SAYRE 1909 lot. Sayre prepared for school at the Hill school and at Lawrenoe- ville academy. He spent two year... ...ersonal interest to the stu- tleut-body. It may be added in passing that a number of last year's communications exerted a strong influence on undergra... ...ST "If wt Made It, It'i Right." Official Jewelers of the Losdinp CoIIcecs, Schools ind Associations. Class Pins. Fraternity Pins, Medals. Cups, etc. W... ... mouth, Harvard, V'ale and the others. COTRELL & LEONARD 47J-478 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. Correct Hoods for all Degrees Class contracts a specialty. GE... ...g tho Civil War he was clerk in the otiico of the Provost Marsiial of Ilia district and from 1885 until the time of his death prijoticed law in Roches... ...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...me meeting. HEELER'S -:-Hotel and RestatJ.ra.nt-:- Bioadway and Maiden Lam Albany, N. Y. — 17 Dining Rooms — Entrance to Ladies' Restaurant Maiden Lan... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ... elect- ed secretaryof the Democratic con- vention of tbe fourth Berkshire district at the meeting of tbe con- vention held Saturday in Pitts- field. ...

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...d by Baker & Taylor, and give the book’s Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006030830. ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Autogra... ...irst Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of... ...n Andros,” she exclaimed. I re- fused to flinch. Sending one’s daughter to school elsewhere was to admit one’s own school had failed. Rhodopis knew t... ...gging behind him, a dog by his side: what is the rope for? I think of my school and how taxing it is to teach kindness, moderation and beauty: yet,... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ...ses purchased for the army are unfit for service? Was it true that in the District of Columbia, horses have been chained to trees, where they gnawed... ...same $400 figure, pay for the slaves in the States of Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri: VOICES FROM THE PAST ... ...ioning about his army experiences, his home...he is mustered out. Back to Albany. A soldier bumped into me on the White House grounds, swearing be...

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... Wind whips flames as homeless flee devastation. Riverside business district laid waste. 300 killed; 90,000 homeless. Morgan crawled... ...it Daniel every evening, rollicking in about six with news from the theater district, of Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after... ...ted enough to—” “I’m afraid she was,” Peter said. I checked my sources in Albany. Senator Boddon has the same papers, and he is ready to act on t... ...at ignited whenever he did, puzzled him. Over the years with Helene, he had schooled his appetites to her fickle passions. She was as like to recoi... ...ossible.” “It’s been done in Great Britain and Europe for years. And now, schools have opened here since the war. I visited the one in New York. ... ...ful writer. Very humorous. I have The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in my room. I’ll lend it to you.” “Thank you. I’m sure I’ll ... ...irected Po-Ca-Hon-Tas with Rupert Gable as Kod-Liv-Royl, the Medicine Man. Albany, 1862” “You remember that? You must have been a baby.” “I was... ...ight tour ending so successfully, he brought in money from the managers of a number of out- of-town theaters on the promise that they would be include... ...rs, and Morgan imagined it the echo of the monster’s dying breath. Across County Cork and into Kerry, Bridey chanted a constant refrain, “Sure’n ye...

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...awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt.... ...r in spectacles—the pretentious tor- toiseshell, the meek pince-nez of the school teacher, the twisted silver-framed glasses of the old villager. Babb... ...and—And here I’ve told him a hundred times, if he’ll go to college and law-school and make good, I’ll set him up in business and—Verona just exactly a... ...f spring was so win- some that he lifted his head and saw. He admired each district along his familiar route to the office: The bungalows and shrubs a... ... in Zenith or anywhere else. He had heard it said that “conditions” in the County Jail and the Zenith City Prison were not very “scientific;” he had, ... ...ease the rent of the battered store-building on the lot. The tenant said a number of rude things, but he paid. Now, Purdy seemed ready to buy, and his... ...an English family—in- deed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen- mill viscount... ...y myself, and I know darn well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just be- cause... ...be—St. Paul, Toledo, or K.C., in Washington, Schenectady, in Louisville or Albany. And at that inn it hits my dome that I again am right at home. If I...

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... and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on each fron... ...e building, by piercing it with windows altogether unsuited to it, both in number and size. The walls, even under the porticoes, have been so pierced,... ...d to be ten miles square, was cut out of the two States and was called the District of Columbia. The greater portion of this district was taken from M... ...hich is now a suburb—and the only suburb—of Washington. The portion of the district on the Virginian side included Arlington heights, and went so far ... ... it. If he have none, he will amuse himself without it. His work is like a school-boy’s task; he knows it must be done, but never comprehends that the... ...cinnati has 170,000 inhabitants, and there are 14,000 children at the free schools—which is about one in twelve of the whole population. This number g... ... shown that he knew nothing of the business; that he employed a clerk from Albany whom he did not know, and confided to this clerk the duty of buy- in... ...o him by Mr. Weed, the editor of a newspaper 156 North America V ol. 2 at Albany, who is known in the States as the special po- litical friend of Mr.... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...e dates, respectively, October 12 and 13, 1863, and each inclosing a large number of affidavits. The general statements of the whole are that the Fed... ...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...ennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in s... ...of educated officers, for which legal provision has been made at the naval school, the vacancies caused by the neglect or omis- sion to make nominatio... ...States in insurrection have been filled by the Secretary of the Navy. The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in ever... ...evolent institutions established or patron- ized by the Government in this District to your generous and fostering care. The attention of Congress dur... ...E HOFFMAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 15, 1863. HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN, U. S. District Judge, San Francisco, Cal.: The oath in the proclamation of Decemb... ...GTON, July 5, 1864. HIS EXCELLENCY HORATIO SEYMOUR, Governor of New Y ork, Albany: The President directs me to inform you that a rebel force, vari- ou...

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...ou will prevent the army now opposed to you from receiving an accession of numbers of nearly 15,000 men; and if you succeed in saving the bridges you ... ... circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars in the District of Colum- bia,” has received my attentive consideration, and I now... ...culation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri... ...1863. HON. THURLOW WEED. DEAR SIR:—Y our valedictory to the patrons of the Albany Evening journal brings me a good deal of uneasiness. What does it me... ...NOR SEYMOUR EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 12, 1863. GOVERNOR SEYMOUR, Albany , N.Y .: Dr. Swinburne and Mr. Gillett are here, having been refused... ...BETH J. GRIMSLEY, Springfield, Ill.: Is your John ready to enter the naval school? If he is, telegraph me his full name. A. LINCOLN. 299 The Writings... ... 28, 1863. MAJOR GENERAL SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.: Every place in the Naval school subject to my appointment is full, and I have one unredeemed promise...

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...ng as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confi- dence in Dr. Hull. Have you ... ...t calculation of beating you and your friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have b... ... seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Buchanan. Fremont. Fillmore. Bond ...... ...made in reply to one of Judge Douglas’s speeches. (Mr. Lincoln then read a number of extracts which had the ring of the true metal. W e have rarely he... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished... ...nd other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher bey... ...ite, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education I ... ...n. 173 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five REPL Y TO THE MA YOR OF ALBANY, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 18, 1861. MR. MA YOR:—I can hardly appropriate to... ... thanks for this kind reception. REPL Y TO GOVERNOR MORGAN OF NEW YORK, AT ALBANY , FEBRUARY 18, 1861. GOVERNOR MORGAN:—I was pleased to receive an in...

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.... He was horticulture under notice to quit, the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and prbaa things. He did his best to console himsel... ...d more houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itsel... ...ed of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring’s Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone’s chintzes and c... ...in the streets upon that one day, than in the previous three months, and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westmin... ...himself passionately in a tangle of disputes for the possession of a great number of valuable money prizes. Some of these had been offered so long ago... ...im until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned him out of school to begin that career of private enterprise we have compactly recorde... ...ns of her area lawless beyond precedent, so that it was possible for whole districts to be impassable, while civil war raged be- tween street and stre... ...pedestrian in Central Park. And amidst scenes of indescribable emotion the Albany legislature in permanent session, and with a generous suspension of ... ... tyre. Laurier looked down on him. “He is reported in the neighbourhood of Albany—out towards the Berkshire Hills. He is moving from place to place an...

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...his time to morrow, this time next day, and so forth; and entrusted a vast number of messages to those who in tended returning to town that night, wh... ...ed us, as would have accommodated a score or two of grown up families. The number of creeds and forms of religion to which the pleasure of our company... ...attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they dissemi ... ...ned it about its mimic eyes. She was seated in a little enclosure, made by school desks and forms, writing her daily journal. But soon finishing this... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...g cultivation in the same place could possibly have af forded me. In this district, as in all others where slavery sits brooding, (I have frequently ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...s of a rope. After breakfasting at Whitehall, we took the stage coach for Albany: a large and busy town, where we ar rived between five and six o’cl... ...at of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member influencing the selection. Commissions in the service ...

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...-day the gold found yesterday—some five-and-twenty thousand pounds. Of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds’ worth of gold, three hundred thousand ... ...nd years or more. The pulpit was gone, and other things usually belonging to the church were gone, owing to its liv- ing congregation having deserted ... ...s stair- case, into a better kind of loft devoted to the idiotic and imbecile. There was at least Light in it, whereas the windows in the former wards... ...nse of the pressing necessity of instantly smuggling Mrs. Grazinglands into the obscurest corner of the building. This slighted lady (who is the pride... ..., that Jairing’s made it a merit to have accepted him on any terms: ‘for,’ added the waiter (unmis- takably coughing at Mrs. Grazinglands, the pride o... ... the cart into his calculations, he en- deavoured to turn up a narrow alley, and became greatly involved. He was taken into custody by the police, and... ...tation of a disreputable cur, apparently to visit a dog at Harrow— he was so intent on that direction. The north wall of Burlington House Gardens, bet... ...eir men when they be- gin to move again. At a small butcher’s, in a shy neighbourhood (there is no reason for suppressing the name; it is by Notting-h... ... him, in a pepper- and-salt jacket—jacket—and drab trousers, with his arm round the waist of a bootmaker’s housemaid, smiling in open day. I have seen...

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...Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMI... ... sustain the latter. With these original gifts in view, let us look at his school- ing; the fearful discipline through which it pleased God to prepare... ...ion edu- cation was better than any he could have acquired in any lettered school. What he needed, was facts and experiences, welded to acutely wrough... ...revolution in Illinois, and in the passage of the 3 Mr. Stephen Myers, of Albany, deserves mention as one of the most persevering among the colored e... ...n of power and spirit. She was marvelously straight 5 Mr. Wm. H. Topp, of Albany. 19 Frederick Douglas in figure, elastic and muscular.” (p. 46.) Af... ...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ...e, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that county, there is a small district of coun- try, thinly populated, and remarkable for nothing that I ... ... the wishes of their masters. The daughters of my grandmother were five in number. Their names were JENNY, ESTHER, MILLY, PRISCILLA, and HARRIET. The ... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ...

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...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ...have remembered it; indeed, vowed and protested that she expected to see a number of Amelia’s nephews and nieces. She was quite disappointed that Mr. ... ...e periodical. Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flu... ...te-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley told a number of his best Indian stories; for he was extremely talkative in man’s ... ...and in the morning is locked up in his study, or else rides to Mudbury, on county business, or to Squashmore, where he preaches, on Wednesdays and Fri... ...ad not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining bar- onets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalli- ance. Never mind the comm... ...suppose that they ever would have dreamed of paying a visit to so remote a district as Bloomsbury, if they thought the family whom they proposed to ho... ...usekeeper had been to pay Southdown a furtive visit at his chambers in the Albany; and found him—O the naughty dear abandoned wretch!—smoking a cigar ...

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...lodgett were not altogether wasted. The 5 Sinclair Lewis smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilou... ...led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work in a Chicago school. Her imagination carved and colored the new plan. She saw herself pe... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ... the heart of a place called Gopher Prai- rie, but ten thousand towns from Albany to San Diego: Dyer’s Drug Store, a corner building of regular and un... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... Miss Sherwin confided her latest scheme—moral motion pictures for country districts, with light from a portable dynamo hitched to a Ford engine. Bea ... ...ncholy, depressingly hopeful kind. There are in every large chicken-yard a number of old and indignant hens who resemble Mrs. Bogart, and when they ar... ...eme. The doctor and his bride were at home to their numerous friends and a number of novelties in diversions were held, including a Chinese or- chestr... ... say to my writing to the Lake Ojibawasha Club, telling them that if their district will support Mrs. Warren for sec- ond vice-president, we’ll suppor...

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...ORGAN NEW-YORK C. WILEY , 3 W ALL STREET J. Seymour, printer 1823 Southern District of New-Y ork ss. Be it remembered, That on the thirteenth day of J... ...e Independence of the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right wher... ...ulia was, consequently, entrusted to the government of a select board- ing-school; and, as even the morals of the day were, in some degree, tinctured ... ...h an intimacy between her nieces, Julia had already formed a friendship at school, and did not con- ceive her heart was large enough to admit two at t... ...mily. Notwithstanding the house of Miss Emmerson stood in the midst of the numberless villas that adorn Manhattan Island, the habits of its mistress w... ...fteen a winter in. There are, absolutely, but three young men in the whole county who can be thought in any manner as proper matches for us; and one h... ...s of awful romance; how the soul longs for the consolations of friendship. Albany is one of the most picturesque places in the world; situated most de... ...pay you your price, but you must furnish me with good horses to meet me at Albany—remember that I take all the useless expense between the two cities,... ...re- turned the lady, with an affected sigh. “I really had not observed the number of your charming fam- ily—how many are there of you?” “A baker’s doz...

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...woodbine twining, until she died. I must refer you to the Registrar of the District in which the humble dwelling was situated, for the certified cause... ... at home in the Red Sea, my young friend?’ ‘Read of it with teacher at the school,’ said the boy. ‘ And Lazarus?’ ‘Yes, and him too. But don’t you tel... ... that had brought the boy; the two friends (once boys together at a public school) inside, smoking cigars; the messenger on the box beside the driver.... ...ou must walk the rest, sir; it’s not many yards.’ He spoke in the singular number, to the express exclusion of Eugene. ‘This is a confoundedly out-of-... ...by fields and trees. Be- tween Battle Bridge and that part of the Holloway district in which he dwelt, was a tract of suburban Sahara, where tiles and... ...e did it for?’ ‘Impossible to say, my dear. As I have told you time out of number since his will was brought to light, I doubt if I ever exchanged a h... ...n in the grave, and Fledgeby flourished alone. He lived in chambers in the Albany , did Fledgeby , and main- tained a spruce appearance. But his youth... ...ndstone, and turned it with a wary eye. Mr Alfred Lammle came round to the Albany to breakfast with Fledgeby. Present on the table, one scanty pot of ... ...tched off to a great blank barren Union House, as far from old home as the County Jail (the remoteness of which is always its worst punishment for sma...

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...d, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or v... ...thought and, to a great extent, the rule of future conduct. I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, somethin... ... the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end. We have spoken of the material... ...heart of young Scotland will be always touched more nearly by pau- city of number and Spartan poverty of life. So we may argue, and yet the difference... ...umes, save when they stare upon him from the shelves; but the grave-digger numbers his graves. He would indeed be something different from human if hi... ...nd the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some o... ...passages as: “Scene 6. The Hermitage. Night set scene. Place back of scene 1, No. 2, at back of stage and hermitage, Fig. 2, out of set piece, R. H. i... ... seem to myself to wander in a ghostly street – E. W., I think, the postal district – close below the fool’s-cap of St. Paul’s, and yet within easy he... ...g-room in his fine, natural civility; he will sail near the wind; he is no district visitor – no Wesley or Robespierre; his conscience is void of all ...

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...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ...had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, Am... ...ed as the Territories are now treated.” (The Territories are vast outlying districts belonging to the Union, but not as yet endowed with State govern-... ...tects would be frightened at the di- mensions which are needed, and at the number of apart- ments which are required to be clustered under one roof. W... ...gards riding at Newport, we were not tempted to repeat the experiment. The number of carriages which we saw there—remembering as I did that the place ... ...usta and not Port- land is the capital of Maine. Of the State of New York, Albany is the capital, and not the city which bears the State’s name. And o... ... probably at the Clifton House on the Canada side. He will then pass on to Albany, taking the Trenton Falls on his way. From Albany he will go down th... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

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...ccessively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with the system, and, so far as I know or be- ... .... If the old system be thought to be vague, as to all the delegates of the county voting the same way, or as to instructions to them as to whom they a... ...join in proposing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judg- ment and c... ...r having been in Congress has, in various ways, so spread your name in the district as to give you a decided advantage in such a stipulation. I ap- pr... ...ry. It always seemed to me that slaves would be taken there in about equal numbers, with or without annexation. And if more were taken because of anne... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two VERSES WRITTEN BY LINCOLN CON- CERNING A SCHOOL-FELLOW WHO BECAME INSANE—(A FRAGMENT). And when at length the drear ... ...sports to return to their homes; in consideration of which a corresponding number of Mexican prisoners, rank and file, now in pos- 37 The Writings of... ...n account; but I understand he wants to live with me, so that he can go to school and get a fair start in the world, which I very much wish him to hav... ...this? The only specification offered is volunteered by Mr. Fillmore in his Albany speech. His charge is that if we elect a President and Vice-Presiden...

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...lliam Heathcote needed to be recorded in their relations to the parish and county. This has, therefore, here been attempted, together with a record of... ...e world have left us few traces of their possession, and in fact the whole district was probably scarcely inhabited; but the trees and brushwood or he... ...who was at first a friend and afterwards an enemy to William I. The entire district, except the neighbourhood of Merdon Manor on the one hand, and of ... ...round on each side. This is still preserved in the en- trance to the Boys’ School. These remnants date the original building for about the thirteenth ... ...n each occasion, sixpence to each fellow and chaplain, and likewise to the schoolmaster, twopence to each lay clerk, sixpence to the sacrist for wax c... ...neighbouring wood. The register of Twyford Church contains the record of a number of the Welles family buried in the churchyard clan- destinely, by ni... ... to whatever was required of him. He had been member of Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’... ...said manor within the said manor, for all their commonable cattle, without number or stint, exclusive of the lord of the said manor. “Custom 16. That ... ...re au Bois in succession to his father and grandfather, and the Rev. Henry Albany Bowles became vicar of Otterbourne. Other changes had in the meantim...

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...t certain travellers know and rec- ognize from its likeness to its brother district in all other places where are congregated the habitations of men. ... ...in, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a certain man is not a stranger. Where the idols are fed wit... ...sby and one or two of his 20 Thackeray friends were making head against a number of the town. The young noble faced the huge champion with the gallan... ...he fair Saxon race of Hengist and Horsa—they called him Miss Codlingsby at school; but how much fairer was Miriam the Hebrew! Her hair had that deep g... ... place, she has five hundred thousand acres, in a ring fence in Norfolk; a county in Scotland, a castle in Wales, a villa at Richmond, a corner house ... ...tarted bears the ancient coat of his race. “He has taken apartments in the Albany, and is a director of thirty-three railroads. He proposes to stand f... ...shed away in a flood of tears. A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” “ALBANY , LETTER X. August 10, 1845. “SIR,—Has a reglar suscriber to your em... ...nion & the hother chaps rord with lafter. “As Bally has istates in Queen’s County, I’ve put him on the St. Helena direction. We call it the ‘Great St.... ...ss from the hold lady, which I should be a roag to forgit. She paid for my schooling; she got up my fine linning gratis; shes given me many & many a l...

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...ns SKETCHES BY BOZ OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER. H OW MUCH IS CONVEYED in those two short words—’The Parish!’ ... ...ne of the overseers. ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, Number 3, Little King William’s-alley, which has lived there this fifteen y... ...n importance to the beadle, are the master of the workhouse and the parish schoolmas- ter. The vestry-clerk, as everybody knows, is a short, pudgy lit... ...uld prefer your never mentioning the subject to her again. She has a great number of pensioners: and on Saturday, after she comes back from market, th... ... it to be 26 Sketches by Boz printed, on the motion of the member for the district. The captain engaged two hackney-coaches and a cab for Bung’s peop... ...uld be almost tempted to believe that all the hackney-coach horses in that district knew us by sight too, if one-half of them were not blind. We take ... ...draw. I may as well get board, lodgin’, and washin’, till then, out of the county, as pay for it myself; consequently here goes!’ So, without more ado... ...came to our knowl- edge thus: We went over the House of Correction for the county of Middlesex shortly after, to witness the opera- tion of the silent... ...had an intimate friend who once knew a gentleman who formerly lived in the Albany,—even he had determined that Mr. Horatio Sparkins must be a devilish...