The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-01-26
KNICRERBoCKER MAGAZINE.
FEFTY-FAETH VOLUME.
Leu5s GAYLORD cLARK, DIR. JAMES c.


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the Magazine We expect in our next mum
Der 60 tie able 10 asnosaee 4 series of articles
On Popular Astronomy, by the most distin
guished writer upon that science in the land
4 Stories and Pictures Of the Hudson viii b.
! completed during the year, and the two vol
umes will contain the best sketches, tales, 20.
ems, etc, that can be proeGTed for the enter
tainment Of our readers.
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4 country dance on the green with a hard
fea ,ured fiddler perched on high seat, and
another musician in tie-wig standing by him,
playing with all their might. On the right
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the dance 4 gray-haired man. TyhC seem vain
ly 10 reroustrate that his dancing days are
over while a waggish little chit pushes hiin
forward from behind, greatly 10 the anuse-
mcpt Of his spouse, who is still sitting AZ the
tea-tablc, troB which he has been dragged.
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oak sit tie squire and his wife, whom a cyua-
tryG.an with his hat off is respectfully inylt-
ing to take part iE the lanle 10 the left oi
the squire is yeuBg couple oR ihe grass. tc
whom gipsy with an infant o. her shoulder
is telling their fortune. Over the SHOULDERS
OF this couple Is seen grOEp eLS age4I3 gLo5t-
playing, AID Eack Of the whole is a landscape
Of gentle slopes and c0pse5. The piellre has
the expression Of gayetY jhr, ugaolI, aa1 tie
engraving Is splcudldIv executed. IL Is fresh
fFom the Eugin Of HoLL, 10: having yet been
published in England
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