Rambles through the British Isles . • Amusements to viitue aie like breezes ot an to the llame. XXVII. Ik and Around Glasgow. Sweet recreation barred, wbat doeth ensue,But moody and dull melancholy,Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;And at their heels, a huge infectious troopOf pale distemperatures, and foes to life. Shakespeare. ESTERDAY, when walking in one of theprincipal streets of the city, my eye caughta sight of the old flag— the Star SpangledBanner—floating from the balcony of ahotel. Yes, there it waved as gayly and freelyas ever I saw it in its own native land! For a lit-tle tim
Rambles through the British Isles . • Amusements to viitue aie like breezes ot an to the llame. XXVII. Ik and Around Glasgow. Sweet recreation barred, wbat doeth ensue,But moody and dull melancholy,Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;And at their heels, a huge infectious troopOf pale distemperatures, and foes to life. Shakespeare. ESTERDAY, when walking in one of theprincipal streets of the city, my eye caughta sight of the old flag— the Star SpangledBanner—floating from the balcony of ahotel. Yes, there it waved as gayly and freelyas ever I saw it in its own native land! For a lit-tle time I was bewildered and said to myself, Canthis be a dream ? am I in America ? can it be that Istill in New York city ? Is what I see real, or only a
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