Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . Recollections of Albany. 83 open to good company alone. I need not say thatit was Avell filled: it was, at least half the year,reduntantly full. All travelers of any note or con-cold, slipperj or stormy, it was indispensable to go to the barbersand walk a mile lef<yre breakfast. And although he merely wentaromid the block, he seemed mentally to enjoy his full mile. Ifhe rode it was always at eleven; and if accompanied by guests, hisdirection was invariably Cohoes and Waterford, and he arrivedhome to dine at three. He had a habit of going t
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . Recollections of Albany. 83 open to good company alone. I need not say thatit was Avell filled: it was, at least half the year,reduntantly full. All travelers of any note or con-cold, slipperj or stormy, it was indispensable to go to the barbersand walk a mile lef<yre breakfast. And although he merely wentaromid the block, he seemed mentally to enjoy his full mile. Ifhe rode it was always at eleven; and if accompanied by guests, hisdirection was invariably Cohoes and Waterford, and he arrivedhome to dine at three. He had a habit of going to the roof to ex-amine the gutters, and could not be persuaded that it was unsafe fora man of his years to venture in such places. He insisted that he hadnever fallen there in all his life; and although his friends expectedthat he would come tumbling down, it seemed to be no part ofhis plan. At 12 oclock noon, he took gin and water with a cracker,and drank wine with his dinner. In the evening he dosed in hischair, or walked the floor. He would per
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