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To return to the little ones; it was too near Bath for such a custom to survive among them, and it is the same pretty well everywhere; you must go to a distance of ten or twenty miles from any large town, or a big station, to meet with curtseying children.
Mixon with her when she came North, drifted from place to place and finally became one of New York's large black contingent from the South. To her the lessons of slavery had not been idle ones.
He showed me, also, that in all his valuations he had set off a large sum for loss by accident of fire, war, etc., so that actually at the present moment the estate, which he reckoned at seventy-five thousand pounds, was worth at the least one hundred and twenty-five thousand.
But once at large, we put spurs to our horses in true ritter fashion; and we had galloped half way to Appleby house before Dick said: "Now we are well out of that, what next? We can not go to Margery with the whole British army at our heels." "Nay, but we shall, if only for a short half-hour," I asserted. Then, as once before, I gave him my best bow.
I found a large chamber, possibly a hundred feet in diameter and thirty or forty feet in height; a smooth and well-worn floor, and many other evidences that the cave had, at some remote period, been inhabited. The back of the cave was so lost in dense shadow that I could not distinguish whether there were openings into other apartments or not.
From the year 1785 until the year 1788, Colonel Burr was unknown as a politician. His practice was extensive and lucrative. His domestic relations seemed to occupy all his leisure time. His family was large, and to direct the education of his children was to him the most delightful employment. His zeal for their improvement is evinced in some of the preceding letters.
The officers have large halls, billiards, and reading-room to meet in; and the common men are admitted into apartments adjoining libraries, from-which they can borrow what books they contain, and read them at leisure. This is certainly a very good and even a humane institution, though these libraries chiefly contain military histories or novels.
Yet there must have been something there for all these eager bills eggs or pupae. A jackdaw, with iron-grey patch on the back of his broad poll, dropped in my garden one morning, to the great alarm of the small birds, and made off with some large dark object in his beak some beetle or shell probably, I could not distinguish which, and should most likely have passed the spot without seeing it.
A large coal stove in front room furnishes heat. In recent years electricity has supplanted the overhead oil lamp. Most of the furnishings were purchased in early married life. They are somewhat worn but arranged in orderly manner and are clean. Mrs. Mann is tall and angular. Her hair is streaked with gray, her face thin, with eyes and cheek bones dominating.
He collected a large number of specimens, which were subsequently sent to Orange for Edison's examination.