room large enough to contain forty or fifty guests two silver branches for candles � the walls ornamented with paintings and the floors were daily rubbed with wax and shone like a mahogany table a domestic who said prayers every morning and evening in a small apartment called the chapel also a steward and butler the family attended the church at christmas and good friday and gave a grand entertainment once a year by v ic american note books madam at the last of these wore a black gown and with double lace velvet shoes blue silk stockings white and silver the daughter and in rich and yellow satin old in brown velvet with gold and a large wig the parson in his silk and his in brown old general in scarlet velvet and his wife and daughters in white the governor in black velvet and his lady in crimson trimmed with silver the ladies wore bell shoes silk stockings and high head dresses with of lace hanging thence to the waist among the a silver tub of the capacity of four holding a of powdered with white sugar the date assigned to all this about what is the price of a day s labor in where the sun never sets for six months miss a life generally of a grave hue may be said to be embroidered with occasional sports and a father � his reflections on character and the contrast of the inward man with the outward as he looks around on his congregation all whose secret sins are known to him by v ic american note books a person with an ice cold hand � his right hand which people ever afterwards remember when once they have grasped it a stove possessed by a devil june ty � one of my chief amusements is to see the boys sail their miniature vessels on the pond there is a great variety of shipping owned among the young people and they appear to have a considerable knowledge of the art of managing vessels there is a full man of war with i believe every rope and sail that sometimes makes its appearance and when on a voyage across the pond it so a great ship except in size that it has the effect of a picture all its motions � its tossing up and down on the small waves and its sinking and rising in a calm swell its to the breeze � the whole effect in short is that of a real ship at sea while moreover there is something that the imagination more than the reality would do if we see a real great ship the mind and possesses within its real clutch all that there is of it while here the ship is the representation of an ideal one and so gives us a more imaginative pleasure there are many that to and fro on the pond and pilot boats all perfectly i saw a race the other day between the ship above mentioned and a pilot boat in which the latter came off conqueror the boys appear to be well acquainted with all the ropes and sails and can call them by their names one of the owners of the vessels remains on one by v ic american note books side of the pond and the other on the opposite side and so they send the little bark to and fro like merchants of different countries their vessels to one another when any vessel is on the pond there are full grown spectators who look on with as much interest as the boys themselves towards sunset this is especially the case for then are seen young girls and their lovers mothers with their little boys in hand beating round about and occasionally running to the side of the pond rough or perhaps masters or young mates of vessels who make remarks about the miniature shipping and occasionally give professional advice to the visitors from the country and young gentlemen � in short everybody stops to take a look in the mean time dogs are continually plunging into the pond and swimming about with noses pointed upward and at floating then emerging they shake themselves scattering a shower on the clean gowns of ladies and trousers of gentlemen then to and fro on the grass with joyous some boys cast off lines of with pin hooks and perhaps pull out a � that being i think the only kind of fish that the pond the ship of war above mentioned is about three feet from stem to stem or possibly a few inches more this if i mistake not was the size of a ship of the line in the navy of fancy pictures of familiar places which one has never been in as the green room of a theatre etc by v ic american note books the famous characters of history � to imagine their spirits now on earth in the guise of various public or private personages the case quoted in s of a young man of great talents and profound knowledge of who had in view some new discovery of importance in order to put his mind into the highest possible activity he shut himself up for several successive days and used various methods of excitement he had a he drank spirits penetrating sprinkled water round the room etc etc eight days thus passed when he was seized with a fit of frenzy which terminated in flesh and blood � a firm of miss syllable a mankind are with spirits in them a � in one sense he has his money s worth by the purchase of large lots of repentance and other to moral or spiritual disease by disease of the body as thus � when a person committed any sin it might appear in some form on the body � this to be wrought out shrieking fish a strange idea of 