70 a side elong glance at dame Vanttankle, and at the least frouresh of a broomstick to the door with or lacle would fly relping precipitation Times grew worse and worse. with Rifi rantsinkle as years of matrimony rolled oni age, edge use. a tart temper. and a never mellows with sharp tonque is the only tool that grows keener by constant For a frequenting long while he used to console hild it's sessions himself when driven pom home, by f a kind of perpetual dub the sages, philosophers and other idle perthe village that apos =sonages of bunch fi before the ins a small rubies pie house, designated by portrait of his majesty george the third. a Are they used to sit in the shade, of a longtalk listlessly over lazy summers day, village gopip stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any or tell Fendless sleepy mea statesmans heart good money to have heard the profound disccessions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper has fell into their hands M.S. Page. Sketch Book from the original in the possession of Mr J C. Brevoort. IRVINGIANA: A MEMORIAL OF WASHINGTON IRVING. -Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius,— Weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness,-for he TRISTRAM SHANDY, CHAP. CLXXXVI. NEW YORK: CHARLES B. RICHARDSON. 1860. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, BY CHARLES B. RICHARDSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. BIBLIOTHECA REGLA MONACENSIS. One hundred and ten copies only printed. RIVERSIDE PRESS: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE. |