The wanderings of a pen and pencil . This tower rises nine feet above the other walls. The roof wehave mentioned is octagonal, and under the caves are shutters, which,being closed or removed, rule the exit of the volume of smoke within, asthe wind may shift from one quarter to another. A stunted polygonalpillar, with a swelling capital surmounts the roof, and upon this is seateda very consequential griffin, eight feet in stature, feathered and winged andbeaked, like a faithful heraldic monster, and holding erect in the right clawor paw, a flag-shaped vane of metal, decorated at the free corner
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . This tower rises nine feet above the other walls. The roof wehave mentioned is octagonal, and under the caves are shutters, which,being closed or removed, rule the exit of the volume of smoke within, asthe wind may shift from one quarter to another. A stunted polygonalpillar, with a swelling capital surmounts the roof, and upon this is seateda very consequential griffin, eight feet in stature, feathered and winged andbeaked, like a faithful heraldic monster, and holding erect in the right clawor paw, a flag-shaped vane of metal, decorated at the free corners withbold fleurs-de-lis. It was said to have been, once, an ungodly mastercook, who wept with hardheartedness when a great dole was given tothe poor, at the obsequies of one of the very very old family, many manyyears ago, before chaff beds were invented for noblemen, and poor lawsfor humble people; and he went out of his mind at last, but not into a bettermind, but into the form of a griffin, which, as every natural historian can. Stanton Kitchen, interior. STANTON IIAKCOUKT. 167 tell you, will stand by its property or any body elses, and never lose, forNostradamus himself, one atom, or even the smell of it. So ever since hehas been sitting upon the old kitchen to be regaled with the shrieking ofthe weathercock and the smoke from the vault beneath, and to see poorwhite-haired old men, and their tear-wasted young widows, and heaven-protected younglings, walking away from the Hall with daily lots of frag-mentary nourishment. The public will be maliciously delighted to hearthat, owing to the charitable disposition of Mrs. Blake, the agonies of thepetrified criminal are likely to be perpetuated. We descended in perfectsecurity, but had some difficulty to clear our curious way upon returningto the ground floor. Here, was a pump-handle at an angle of 45, like theclumsiest arm of a juvenile orator—there, were a stone cistern, carpentersbenches, superannuated scullery tables, and o
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