Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29

Hollow by the light OF q candle. l.
alluded to the story l had heard told at Lady
Blessingtou's, of Irving going to sleep at a dinner
porty, and their taking him up softly and carrying
him 10 another house, where he walked up amid Il
Ilaruc evening party-but he shook his head in.
credulously. it was Disraeli's story he said, and
was told Of n party at Lady Jerseys, to which he
certainly went, after a dinner'par'y,-oot NOT
with the dramatic nap at the table nor the waking
M in her n dyship's drawing room, as described.
In fact. he remembered the party, as such a jam,
that he did not get. that evening beyond the first
landing Of the staircase.
Among the pictures on the walls of his library
were the two admirable engravings, one represent
inc Johnson at table with his friends, the other
giving no, traits of SCOTS intimates, as he read his
novel to them in the library at Abbotsford. what
company these are y said Irving how interest
inc tn have them!' As | walked around, | found,
in a corner, a small pen and INK sketch-an ex-
ceedincly clever caricature of Paginini. 1t was
done, he said. 10y Stuart Newton, us he sat with
him one day-d0ne in that artists dreamy, uncon-
scious muod-and Irving had taken it from I'M
der his hand. to preserve it. There was another,
Of the English wit, Lord Snmers, q famous man
about town" when Irving was first in London ;
another still, of q drnmntist whose name does not
occur to me at this moment both impromptu pen
cillings on waste scraps of paper, but framed to
hang up az memorials of pleasant days. And, in
n dark corner, hung Leslie's portrait of Irving
himself, always allowed to be the best. and so well
known to tho world by the engravings from it.
With. the horticulture aud arhoriculture of "Wol-
rert s.dell," Mr.. Grinnell has been singularly sue
efsful and as We were to make the rounds
of the strawberries and lighthouses, before the sun
should be fairly vertical, We were now admonished
TINT it was time, MI. Irving at once taking his straw
= hat to accompany us. A remark upon the beauty
of the yerdure near his door, drew from him a most
poctical outburst as to the happy superiority of
our climate. In Spain, he said. lie had found it
most depressing--the lack of verdure. In Eng.
Hand tbov bova tho most beautiful OF fields and
lawns, but it is so damp that you can never sit
down, out Of doors, without taking cold. In our
country alone, is the grass green enough. While
b we were still in the immediate grounds OF sunny
side, ! observed two remarkable trlplets OF the
: tulip tree-superb g~rowths of three equal shafts,
I tall and of arr0wy straightness, from each root, and
:. in these fine s~pecimens Of the cleanost-leaved and
1 h~ealthiest looking of trees, he said he took great
e pleasure. a squirrel ran Up one OF them as we
approached, and, upon this race of depredators,
!, he had been Obliged to make war, this summer
{ They we're a little bit more destructive than their
!, beauty was an excuse for. With another class OF
g destructives, however, lie did not know 20 well
e how to contend-the visitors who drive into his
grounds and tie their horses to the trees.
The well-shaded ravine which has Sunnyside
sitting on its knees-(once called "WOlferts
Q Roost," and long used by that famous Dutchman
as the covert-way between the river ana bis hauntsl
4 is conveniently and gracefully intersected with
C paths but | remarked to Mr.. Irving that they
Q were souIeWhat OF the outline character VI ours
= at Idlewild. Yes, he said on his side of the
, dell, they were merely dug out and wdthed hard
I but, as they communicated with those of his rich
4 ~neighbor, he was very often lucky enough to get
3 the credit of the smooth gravel-walks, too AND
he presently gave another of his crayon-esque
! touches to his ~neighbor, assuring US, very solemn
5 ly, while we we're wondering at the growth to
G which the transplautcd trees lad attained in so
short a time. that sit was done by Mr.. Grinnells
e going round at night himself, with a lantern and
a. - IN. ,l.t l. ,.aoa Il IL IA prnrS1nn
e themselves "a fact, (seen through Irving spec
!, tacles) as Mr.. G., engrossed all day with his
| business in the city and only at home at night
1t sometimes takes a look at his gardeners work by
d the aid of a lantern.
o AT the door of the hot-house, Mr.. Irving said
n it was warm enough fer him, outside. lie prefer
red to stand under q tree and wait for us-partic'
e ularly as he had seen the grapes before and hop
ed to see some of them again. Astonished as my
own wilderness-trained eyes were, OF course, with
the wonderful fecundity of those glass-covered
vines, | was more interested in the visit to Mr..
a Grinnell's sumptuous stables and here Mr. Irv-
: ing kep, us close company. lie loves horses
d And, as the groom led out one of the farorite
%"bloois," for US to look at, he gave US a thrilling
account Of his being run away with. a year or two
ago-not by Van Tassels horse ''gunpOwder,"
,.r of whose viciouSness he has himself been the
chronicler, though it was upon the very same
ground and with the very same result. lie and
"Ichabod Crane were both thrown, at the en-.
trance to Sleepy Hollow.
e As we strolled slowly through the grounds, we
came to two dwarf statues-grrotesque rGpfeseh'
'ations OF " Inc opehutnfN. ana Inc WISER -
anu ME- irving gave US a comic ni''o'y " no'
amusing party oil 'rienuS ny pa! hG a' 'noT"uA
the other day-'topplng II. ther walk anu uiess
10 iug these nGurea up WIN tne shawls anu oonne.'
of the ladies. Our walk was varied with inclden
tal questions OF ianuscape- gardening as VIC cah''
10 points when commanded the ri'er-'ie"s more
OF less enecttVely anu MT irving naoe one re-
a marx which l thought embodied the "hole SCI
,d ehce OF wooa'thihnihg IN ornamental grounds
thlf "a tree is ouly to be cut DOWN "hen she PIC
ture 1t hldes is worth more than the tree
" But the event OF the day 10 me- was 10 be th'
~ driVe through SLEEPY HOLLOW. i've rampi
"a through Fairy'lnnd with spencer you'd haraiy "
- a promise OF more pleasure MT. urinnciis horSet
were AT the door-(altef Il uihher curing winch
marvelled at the lnexhaust'ble fr~oiiesomeness 0