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Aug. 26 - Late breakfast; pangs at parting. Country rolling, possibly mountainous. Shady dell, with gypsy camp. Venerable boss gypsy wants to buy Freshman's watch-chain. Offers his note at three months and a mustang stallion in payment. Negotiations terminated by mustang stallion eating a considerable portion of the chain...
(Don't blame me! 'T is quite accidental!) But hardly one rapturous hour
Noise would disturb the musicians,-don't promenade in the crowd;
Overture, Don Giovanni. Vintage Song, Mendelssohn. Voyage, Mendelssohn. Titt'l's Serenade. Chorus of Priests, from the Magic Flute. On the Rhine waltzes, Keler Bela. Sleep, thou Wild Rose, Abt, Turkish March (probably), Mendelssohn; and solos for piano, flute, and violoncello.
THE Index Niagarensis mentions some of the "Necessary Qualifications for a City R. R. Conductor," among which we find: "'Far-sightedness,' or the faculty of not seeing persons who wish to ride until the car has left them three blocks behind. 'Love of ventilation,' or the knack of keeping the...