The New England magazine . urnament began. They fought with spears, pistols and swords, and thecontest was long and desperate; but whether the white or black knightshad the victory is not recorded. After the tilt, the company ascended a flight of steps to a banqueting -room, and after the banquet, a ball-room was flung open, decked witheighty-five mirrors, festoons of flowers, and a light and elegant style of paint-ing. Four drawing-rooms on the same floor contained side-boards withrefreshments. The knights and their ladies opened the ball, and at twelveoclock followed fire-works, and a supper
The New England magazine . urnament began. They fought with spears, pistols and swords, and thecontest was long and desperate; but whether the white or black knightshad the victory is not recorded. After the tilt, the company ascended a flight of steps to a banqueting -room, and after the banquet, a ball-room was flung open, decked witheighty-five mirrors, festoons of flowers, and a light and elegant style of paint-ing. Four drawing-rooms on the same floor contained side-boards withrefreshments. The knights and their ladies opened the ball, and at twelveoclock followed fire-works, and a supper, which was spread in a saloon oftwo hundred and ten by forty feet, ornamented with fifty-six large pierglasses, and containing alcoves with side-tables. There were one hundredbranch lights, eighteen lustres, three hundred wax tapers on the supper-tables, four hundred and thirty covers, and twelve hundred dishes. Theywere waited on by a great number of black slaves in Oriental dresses, withsilver collars and bracelets. 320. LAYING A LONG-DISTANCE LINE By FREDERICK RICE, JR.
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