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"A good and most entertaining place for the study of mankind," as Mr. Dinsmore remarked. As they entered it the sound of the sweetly piercing music of a bagpipe smote upon their ears. "Ah," exclaimed Mr. Lilburn, "that sound is sweetly homelike to my ear. Let us see, my friends, to what sight it summons us." "The Beauty Show, sir," said Herbert.
The words seemed to be spoken by someone coming down the cabin stairway, and everybody turned to look at the speaker; but he was not to be seen. "Oh, that was Cousin Ronald!" exclaimed Violet, with a merry look at him, "and no wonder, since he has gone courting again in his latter days." "What! is that possible!" exclaimed Mr. Hugh Lilburn, in evident astonishment. "And who?
Dinsmore, and the song of the blackbird from a pie Grandma Elsie was beginning to help. "'Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie," remarked Mr. Lilburn gravely. "'When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king? "Ah ha! um h'm! ah ha! history repeats itself.
Catching sight of them standing there hand in hand, she was about to retreat into her room again, but Mr. Lilburn spoke: "Congratulate me, Cousin Elsie, upon having won the heart of the sweetest lady in the land; or if that be too strong, one of the sweetest."
The steamer Thames, just from Missouri river, brought us a handbill, offering a reward of 500 dollars, for the person who assassinated Lilburn W. Baggs, late Governor of this State, at Independence, on the night of the 6th inst. Governor Baggs, it is stated in a written memorandum, was not dead, but mortally wounded.
It was published in 1826, in a little volume of letters, on the subject of slavery, by the Rev. Mr. Rankin, who assures us that Mr. Dickey was well acquainted with the circumstances he describes. "In the county of Livingston, Kentucky, near the mouth of Cumberland river, lived Lilburn Lewis, the son of Jefferson's sister.
It was an unexpected arrival, but they were most cordially welcomed and urgently invited to spend as much of their time on the yacht as could be spared from sight-seeing on shore. They were of course soon introduced to Mr. Lilburn already known to them by reputation and presently informed of the state of affairs between him and their sister.
Lilburn turned toward Miss Annis Keith and said, with a humorous look and smile, "You and I seem to be left entirely out of the calculation, Miss Keith. Shall we compose a fourth party, and see what we can find to amuse and interest us?" "Thank you, sir," she replied; "but are you sure I might not prove a hindrance and burden?"
"Ah, ah! ah, ah! um h'm, um h'm! so I should say," soliloquized Mr. Lilburn, leaning on his goldheaded cane and watching the four lads as they scattered and left the room; "and so this is the end of act the first, I suppose. Miss, miss, miss, ah that's the syllable that begins the new word." Evelyn now came in with an umbrella in her hand, Grace and Rose Lacey walking a little in her rear.
The exhibit of jewelry there was the one which seemed to have the greatest attraction for the young girls of the party, Lucilla especially; and her father presented her with a pin and ring which gave her great delight; nor was he less liberal to his wife or Grace. "Ah, ha! um, hum! ah, ha! I see, captain, that you believe in encouraging home industries," laughed Mr. Lilburn.
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