Free cider
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
| Metamark | |
| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
Free Cider.—It was customary on Long Island in the country fifty years ago for any one going along with his team, to stop where he knew the place, and without asking any permission to go in and down the cellar, and help himself to cider—Cider was the perpetual drin
Long Island Character.—Draw the Long Island character—different from the New England—the Middle states—or any of the old Southern states.—
Draw a Portrait of an ordinary "great man" and the ambitions of his life—He is classically education—he is a "perfect gentleman," and associates with "gentlemen."—He goes into "business"—he travels to Europe—is introduced to the courts—he writes a book—perhaps two or three—he is elected to the legislature or Congress—he makes a fortune—he is a well known and highly respected "public character."