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names on shed envelopes, and it pocketed an autograph rejected
or two; looked at the rather procedures of unparliamentary that follow
around me, and he/she wondered who in the world all the calm gentlemen
it was that it held striking here out of odd doors and there as
Respectable car jack-in-the-box. Then I wandered on the "building
residence" of Mrs. Columbia, and it examined his a lot of beauties,
although I cannot say me I thought of her/it a woman of orderly house, and it didn't do
you admire his/her taste in portraits, for the eye of this humble
individual soon it got tired to expire patriots to that all appeared
you/he/she is ending their terrestrial tabernacles in convulsions, it ruffled
shirts and a whirlwind of lacerated flags, hulls of bomb, and fanatical and
arm of blue and legs. The statuary one was also thick and concrete,
but getting tired rather to examine; for the colossal ladies and
gentlemen, didn't bring any cards of introduction in face or figure;
then, if the meditative party in a kilt, with it well-developed
legs, shoes as slippers of army and a ponderous nose, were
Cristoforo Colombo, Cato or Cockelorum Tibby, the tragedian, was more than
I could say. A lot of strong ladies attracted me; but what it was
America and what Pocahontas was a mystery; for all a lot of it struck
the looseness of custom, hair's dishevelment, swords, arrows,
lances, staircases and the other ornaments rather past with damsels of
our day whose effigy should go down to posterity armed with
fans, needles of job to the crotchet hook, going by bicycle whips and parasols, with here and
there a pen that holds or pencil, rolling-pin or broom. The statue
of the Liberty me suffered I recognized, for him any pedestal had as he/she anchors,
but it sustained apartment in the mud, with Young America more symbollicallies
cakes of garbage that do, and strong of fragment, in his/her shade. But tall above
the small crowd that quarrels and their small plans, the sun shone
full on the wide forehead of Liberty, and, in his/her hand, in the summer