Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . rous and eagerfor Albany beef than himself If he had not beforehand enteredinto a confederacy with the Etsbergers and Reckhows, lords ofthe sUp, he must infalhbly have gone home dinnerless and de-sponding. J. Q. w. ^If the seer had looked a second time, he would have seen thesimple side hiU street, the grass covering the east half of it. Hewould have seen the quiet citizens retm-ning from their businessor their morning walk — but he would not have seen a singlecocked hat, nor red ringed worsted cap, upon the head of one ofthem, except may be
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . rous and eagerfor Albany beef than himself If he had not beforehand enteredinto a confederacy with the Etsbergers and Reckhows, lords ofthe sUp, he must infalhbly have gone home dinnerless and de-sponding. J. Q. w. ^If the seer had looked a second time, he would have seen thesimple side hiU street, the grass covering the east half of it. Hewould have seen the quiet citizens retm-ning from their businessor their morning walk — but he would not have seen a singlecocked hat, nor red ringed worsted cap, upon the head of one ofthem, except may be that of the venerable Dr. Stringer on hisprofessional morning tour. He would have seen the upper halfof each front door open, and here and there a neat and thriftyhouse-wife, bending fonvard over the closed lower half, watchingfor her husband or her sons, as they came home to breakfast. Hemight have seen that brass knocker, in the form of a dog, on thedoor of Lafayettes head quarters, unlike any knocker on any green door in New England, j. Q. NORTH DUTCH CHURCH, Erected 1798. Recollections of Albany. 25 villages of New England. Nothing, indeed, couldbe more picturesque than the view of North Pearlstreet, from the old elm at Websters corner, up to
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