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...while the more or less cracked and clouded visages of our white-wigged ancestors lend the dignity of antiquity to the scene. The architect has kindly provided the public at large with a most desirable stand-point for regarding this spectacle. The number of respectable hats and bonnets which appear in the gallery as dinner-time approaches bears witness to the readiness with which the public at large appreciates its privilege; and the daily appearance of new admirers, whose numbers certainly do not decrease as time progresses, has suggested to me the ideas to which I venture to call...
Notices of these proceedings should be inserted in the Boston newspapers, and in such others as might appear desirable to the committee. And on these occasions double the usual fees should be demanded...
...clock. Am determined not to go to bed before dark, so continue studying my phrase-book. Read also my Herbert Spencer, and several other entertaining books in which I was conditioned last year. Sun keeps growing higher and higher. Finally at four o'clock by my watch several men appear in the yard. Among them an English tourist. I know him by his huge field-glasses and numberless portmanteaus. He gets into a carriole. While the men are harnessing the horse, I ask him for the correct time. He says, "Four o'clock," adding, "Nothing like starting off early...
...races will be in the order above stated, the first race being called at three precisely, and each race twenty minutes after the start of the one preceding. Any boat failing to appear ten minutes after the time appointed will be declared out of the race. Only members of the clubs can be contestants in these races, and it should be understood that persons are not members of the clubs unless they are members of the H. U. B. C. Those that have not already done so can sign the constitution, and pay their initiation...
...view of the matter. He apparently fears that Decoration Day will rouse bitter and revengeful thoughts in the minds of the people who throng the streets to witness its yearly celebration. It needs very little knowledge of human nature to perceive that the majority of the people who appear on the streets that day come out simply and solely to enjoy themselves...