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To reach this village, perhaps the most picturesque in the country, we must cross the Potomac from Maryland into Virginia. The bridge is peculiar and artistic.

And on Washington's Birthday the Congressman himself visited the village and made an address when the flag was raised for the first time. Gradually, other improvements and changes had taken place in Poketown. There was the steamboat dock. It had been falling to pieces for years.

After dinner that day, and while the gentlemen were yet at table, Mary and Julia, who, as we have said, had relieved their mother of those benevolent attentions which she had been in the habit of paying to the neighboring sick and poor, proceeded on their way to the cottage of a destitute woman in the next village, who was then lying in what was considered to be a hopeless state.

At the end of this island lies the Quakers' village, Borlington, which east side of the river the Quakers have entirely in their possession, but how they came into its possession, we will show in another place. Before arriving at this village, we stopped at the house of one Jacob Hendrix, from Holstein, living on this side.

We were discovered while we were several miles from the village, and as we entered the mouth of the river we were hailed by a messenger from the chief, sent to find out who we were and the objects of our extraordinary visit. "Who are you?" he shouted in a heavy, far-reaching voice. "What are your names? What do you want? What have you come for?"

The Relation des Decouvertes says that they left the village on the second of December, and returned to it on the eleventh, having left the mouth of the river on the seventh. Very probably, there is an error of date. The sky was clear; and, as night came on, the travellers saw a prodigious comet blazing above this scene of desolation.

Well-fed dogs are considered lazy, and hence they are fed only with a rice gruel, which seems to be neither fattening nor satisfactory. When in the village, the miserable creatures wander about under the houses, there to pick up and fight over morsels which may drop from above, or they lie in the ashes of the bonfires, the better to protect themselves from fleas and other enemies.

The Sikh guns were served well and rapidly; but the terrific fire of the British artillery at length compelled the enemy to fall back, when the infantry were deployed, and a general advance directed, covered by artillery. A village in which a large body of the enemy's artillery was concealed lay directly in the line of Sir Walter Gilbert's advance.

The fire has to have something to feed on, you see, and if it comes to a cleared space that's fairly wide, it can't get any further. "Oh, a cleared space like that doesn't mean that the village could go to sleep and feel safe! But it's a lot easier to fight the fire then.

She had been up the village, and met John at the mill-door. 'Have you heard the news? Matilda Johnson is going to be married to young Derriman. Anne stood with her back to the sun, and as he faced her, his features were searchingly exhibited. There was no change whatever in them, unless it were that a certain light of interest kindled by her question turned to complete and blank indifference.