. Book of the Royal blue . en Andrew Jacksondined on ham and eggs at one of these inns,he was so pleased at the way in which theywere prepared that he gave the old blackmammy cook a silver dollar. A fox baiked near and the night-bird sang. And suddenly echoed a ringing clang Of iron hoofs striking the solid road And a steed pressed on neath the rider s goad— Only the courier! Peace, my dears, The teamster utters, then faintly cheers The stately coach rolling over the way, Bearing to Washington Henry Clay. There is life in the inn; The hostlers leap With a ruddy smile from their mountain sleep;

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. Book of the Royal blue . en Andrew Jacksondined on ham and eggs at one of these inns,he was so pleased at the way in which theywere prepared that he gave the old blackmammy cook a silver dollar. A fox baiked near and the night-bird sang. And suddenly echoed a ringing clang Of iron hoofs striking the solid road And a steed pressed on neath the rider s goad— Only the courier! Peace, my dears, The teamster utters, then faintly cheers The stately coach rolling over the way, Bearing to Washington Henry Clay. There is life in the inn; The hostlers leap With a ruddy smile from their mountain sleep; The Sieur de Lafayette—maybe The guest is even great as he; Or Daniel Webster, or Jefferson, Peers of these great days greatly won From strife and struggle. Out gleams the light, The inn is revel, no sleep tonight. But the time that the life of the oldhighway throbbed in its greatest intensity,says a contemporary, was when a Presi-dent or President-elect passed in triumphantprocession along its dusty stretches. It was. LOOKING DOWN ON THE N.\TI0NAI. ROAD AND OLD NATIONAL , 1111, , NEAR CUMBERLAND THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD

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