. Book of the Royal blue . ing the flunkeys in the barber shop, the flunkeys on the train—.\11 are anxious to be doing things; theyve doing on the the whole life mission, seemingly, of servants, is to helpDo the things we ought to do alone and never give a yelp. Yet the more they scheme to pamper us, the more such we well some day let the waiter come and feed us from his 11 have some one with a hanky just to tend our little nose—.lust as even now we hire a man to whittle at our the world s engaged in planning new encouragements to shirk,For the l
. Book of the Royal blue . ing the flunkeys in the barber shop, the flunkeys on the train—.\11 are anxious to be doing things; theyve doing on the the whole life mission, seemingly, of servants, is to helpDo the things we ought to do alone and never give a yelp. Yet the more they scheme to pamper us, the more such we well some day let the waiter come and feed us from his 11 have some one with a hanky just to tend our little nose—.lust as even now we hire a man to whittle at our the world s engaged in planning new encouragements to shirk,For the lazy folks with money they would rather spend than work. THE OLD LIBERTY BELL. itv to the tknious old State Houseiif Iliiladelpliia, no other object liasreceived jjreater homage by the* ^ American people than the famousold bell that at one time hunjr about itsvenerable roof, ever ready at all times tolend its brazen tones in defiance of oppres-sion and in defense of the rights of LIBERTY The structure known as the State Housewas commenced in 1720 and completed , being occupied for the first time bythe Assembly in October, ). In 1740two wings were added, one at either end,and connected by i)iazzas with the mainbuilding. The entire cost of the structureup to this point was about ;0,000. In17>I it was determined to erect a towerand belfry over the south end of the mainhall, and this work was completed in ,at which time, November I. the steeple wasraised amidst general Threedays previous to this event, November letter had been sent to Robert Charles,of London, ordering a suitable bell for thetower. The letter was as follows : RESrEfTEI) : The .\ssembly having ordered us (the Super-intendents of the State House) to procure a bellfrom Eiifrland. to be piinliased tor their use, wetake thi liberty to apply ourselves to thee to ;jetus a srood bell of about ..noil pounds weight, thecost of
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