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Show 15-1 TilE ADVE~VTURES OF IlUG'I{LEJFERRY l f'Il{ . Y. all around. It come all the ·way fro1n Philadelphia, thry . aid. Thrre was . orne b ok. too, pil d up perf ctly exact, on eaeh corner of the tablr. On ,~-a a big fa1nily Bible, fnll of pictur . ·. On ~ was "Pilgrim~ J>rogr s , ~' a b ut a 1nan that left hi family it didn't say why. I read considerabl in it no\v and then. The . tate1nents was interesting, but tough. A not hrr \va: "Friendship's Off ring," full of b autiful stuff nn<l portry; hut I didn't read the poetry. Another was II nry Clay's ~peeche , and a not h r wa Dr. U unn' 11"'amily l\Iedi ciue, whieh tol<l yon aU about what to do if a body \Ya. sick or dead. Th n} wa a l-Iyn1n Book, and a lot of other books. And thrrP wa.· nice . plit-bott 1n chairs, and perfect1y sound, too-not bngg ·<l down in the 1ni<l<lle and busted, like an ol<l ha. ket. Th y ha<l picture 1 tung on the vvalls- mainly \Va ·ltington. nnd Lafayette , an<l battl s, and llighland l\Iarys, an<l one C<1llc<l' Signing th J)eclaration.'' There wa so1ne t]tat tlH'Y called crayon , which one of th daught rs which waf.i dead lll(Hle h r own lf \Yhen he wa only fifLe n year .. old. They wa different fro1n any picture I ev r see before; blacker 1no tly, than i ccJnlnon. One was a \voman in a Rlitn black <lre R belt d s1nall under the arn1-pits, with bulge: like a cabbag. in the 1ni<l<ll of the . leeves, and a large hlack scoop~ hov l bonn t with a black veil, and \vhit slim ankles eros. e<l about \Yith black tap , and very wee black slipper., lik a chi. e1 and she wa leaning pen. ive on a tomb tone on h er right elbow untler a weeping willow, and h r oth r hand hanging clown her si<le holding a white hanclk rchief and a reticul , and undcrn nth the picture it said, " ~I hall I Never See Thee l\[ore Alas ? " Another one wa a young lady with her hair all combed up straight to the top of her head, and knott d there in front of a comb like a chair-back, and she was crying into a handkerchief and had a dead bird laying on it. back in her other hand with its heel up, and underneath the pieture it said," I Shall Never I ..Y. TJ·:RJOR JJJ~CORATJO.SS. 1[ ar Thy Sweet Chirrup J\Ior Alas!" Th rr wa on\ wltere a y nng lady \Va at a window looking up at th mo n au<l t •ars running <lown h r cheek ; and . ·hr had an op n 1 tt r in one hand \Yith black , "'aling-\n1x ,'howing on one e(l crp of it, ~nHl he \Va rna. hing a locket with a chain to jt against h 'l' mouL11 and und<·r- " L'l' ~IA D J: Ill~ I~ LOO K :-;pJ Dl :llY.'' neath the picture it aid, ' Antl Art Thon Gon' ·r-c. Thou Art G ne Alas ! " The was all nic picture. , I r ck n, ln1t I didn't , o1nehow s em to take to then1 b cau if Y r I was d wn a little, they ahva.ys give me th fan-tod . E\'ery b ely wa · rry h eli 1, because she had laid out a lot m re of the. r pictnr . |