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Many old sportsmen, who used to put up at Captain Dodd's, there, will feel surprised to see the familiar
In my former notes on the grave yards of east Long Island, I find it omitted the following inscription
aged 80 years Here sleeps te Body tombed in its Dust Till Christ shall Come & raise it with the Just My
Soul ascended to te Trone of God Where with sweet Jesus now I make Aboad Then hasten after Me my dearest
Also, at his feet Lie the remains of his youngest son JONATHAN HORTON The first captain of Cavalry in
"My soul ascends Above the Stars."
My poor handkerchief, when I pulled it from my pocket the next morning, was what the wolverines might
I had done it in the agonies between my laughter and attempted decorum.
The captain gets his sixteenth or twentieth "lay," and one or two others share equally well; but the
I know from the frequent bent of my own feelings, that yearning for the freshness and quiet of the country—that
published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain
Yes, Messrs. of the city: I have found no precept more strongly taught, by my rambles among this often
An old woman, the mistress of the place, bustled about, and regaled my repast with many words: her husband
nine children lived home—they had no servants—that they were rich—and that they seized ravenously on my
published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain
.— But I have not yet received my copy of the Dictionary.—I have called several times at Mr.
—If convenient, upon the receipt of this, I wish you would envelope a Dictionary, and put on it my address
Newman for a Dictionary— which order I will give him, when my copy arrives.— Walter Whitman Publisher
AN ADVENTURE ON HEMPSTEAD PLAINS, YEARS AGO One of my old friends for the last fifteen years has made
of these occasions, some ten years since, that he met with a little adventure wherewith he has, in my
My friend aforesaid had gone out to shoot on the Plains (stopping awhile on his way farther east) one
My friend was indeed tired, and thankfully accepted the honest fellow's offer.
My friend, be it known, is the most modest of men—and now what the deuce to do, was the question.
obligation to me, if you would present the enclosed bill and start it on its passage, so that I could get my
—For, like most printers, I am horribly in need of cash.— Do, my dear sir, oblige me, in this matter,
men and their maneuvers that I was now gazing An invalid-looking man came slowly up the hill while my
The man, at my request, showed me one of the globules which he was in the habit of taking daily.
I shall remember that dinner to my dying day. We pulled up stakes, and put for home.
I made my bed in the furled sail, watching the stars as they twinkled, and falling asleep so.
An indescribable serenity pervaded my mind—a delicious abnegation of the ties of the body.
I am convinced of one thing, (I must say my say out,) that even cleaning and salting fish for a few hours
I've no idea of losing my dog by a darned shirk!"
On the same occasion there was the prettiest of marine exhibitions—prettier, to my eyes, than any New
in, and throwing out of those lines, and the rapid depositing of fish in the boats, which seemed, to my
My friends on sea-bass intent (they were waiting for a particular wind, or something to complete their
Among the New York editors, your and my old friend M. M.
CHURCH—AN HOUR AMONG THE PICTURES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ART UNION I have just been up paying one of my
It has grown into my very soul.
For my own part, I have more than once chosen the latter alternative.
In my next letter, I shall take the reader 'way to the jumping off place of the island. P AUMANOK .
My old friends, Mr.