Our Philadelphia . IN RITTENHOUSE SQUARE A CHILD IN PHILADELPHIA 27 incredible Philadelphia they grew up in, it annoys meto find myself out of it all, sharing none of their recollec-tions, save one and that the most trivial. For, from thevagueness of the remote past, no event emerges so clearlyas the periodical visit of Crazy Norah, a poor, harm-less, half-witted wanderer, who wore a mans hat and topboots, with bits of ribbon scattered over her dress, andwho, on her aimless rounds, drifted into all the Philadel-phia kitchens to the fearful joy of the children; and mymemory may be less of her p
Our Philadelphia . IN RITTENHOUSE SQUARE A CHILD IN PHILADELPHIA 27 incredible Philadelphia they grew up in, it annoys meto find myself out of it all, sharing none of their recollec-tions, save one and that the most trivial. For, from thevagueness of the remote past, no event emerges so clearlyas the periodical visit of Crazy Norah, a poor, harm-less, half-witted wanderer, who wore a mans hat and topboots, with bits of ribbon scattered over her dress, andwho, on her aimless rounds, drifted into all the Philadel-phia kitchens to the fearful joy of the children; and mymemory may be less of her personally than of much talkof her helped by her resemblance, or so I fancied, to apicture of Meg Merrilies in a collection of engravingsof Walter Scotts heroines owned by an Uncle, and almostthe first book I can remember. II But great as was my loss, I fancy my memories of oldPhiladelphia gain in vividness for being so few. One ofthe most vivid is of the interminable drive in the slowhorse-car which was the longest
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