Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . GTON. 227 Doctor, what sort of a foot has Grant ? A solid sort of a edifice, said the Doctor. Hes well soton his astragali, but horseback has given him a pigeon-toed ten-dency. When he stands up and aint thinking, the axes of hisfeet, if prolonged, pass t
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . GTON. 227 Doctor, what sort of a foot has Grant ? A solid sort of a edifice, said the Doctor. Hes well soton his astragali, but horseback has given him a pigeon-toed ten-dency. When he stands up and aint thinking, the axes of hisfeet, if prolonged, pass through each other a rod ahead of a better officer than ossifier, and his shoemaker has takena spite against me, so that he dont bear but one crop of cornsa year. When old General Halleck was at the head of the army,he walked about so much, devising strategy, that he bore anentire new set every six weeks. He was fruitful as a tomatovine. Some men run as naturally to chalk as a schoolboy to ablackboard. Others are so stingy that a glove never pinchesthem. But, I hear steps, as of a man limping in the next room,and I presume it is one of the Pennsylvania delegation whosetoes the tariff has abraded. Your corn has gone into the Ameri-can National Pedalion collection, and will be preserved for thebenefit of posterity. Good day, sir!. DUDDINGTON HOUSE. J/M CHAPTER XYI. JOURNALISM AT WASHINGTON. Of which are we representative, who presume to write aboutthese legislators and their legislation ? We are representativeof an institution coeval with modern forms of government; aninstitution as human as government, as apt to be wrong asparties ; more apt to right up promptly and to see the newdispensation than parties ; far less sacred than governmentitself, and no longer a mystery except to the ignorant—thepress! Under various forms we are all striving, in ourdifferent ways and according to our several sagacities, orwant of sagacity, to determine what the people want. If theywant t
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