. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . GOVERNMENT BUILDING. It will be seen that the poet sometimes used imperfect rhymes. His house is white, and trimmed with green ;For many miles it may be shines as bright as any star ;The fame of it has spread afar. Lord Dexter, like King Solomon,Had gold and silver by the ton,And bells to churches he hath given,To worship the Great King of Heaven. The Arabian kings had their astrologers, and so had other kings in theMiddle Ages. Lord Dexter was as famous for his intimacy with fortune-tellers as for his gar
. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . GOVERNMENT BUILDING. It will be seen that the poet sometimes used imperfect rhymes. His house is white, and trimmed with green ;For many miles it may be shines as bright as any star ;The fame of it has spread afar. Lord Dexter, like King Solomon,Had gold and silver by the ton,And bells to churches he hath given,To worship the Great King of Heaven. The Arabian kings had their astrologers, and so had other kings in theMiddle Ages. Lord Dexter was as famous for his intimacy with fortune-tellers as for his garden of statues of heroes, among which his own effigy occu-pied two pedestals at THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETYS QUEER STORIES. ji He was on the way to Lynn, when he drove up before Blingos door, tovisit Moll Pitcher, a woman who was reputed to have the gift of secondsight, and who told fortunes by tea-cups. Lord Dexter, as he was called, but really Timothy Dexter, of Newbury-port, was a real and very famous character of the last century. He was amildly insane man, who had acquired a large fortune by trading adventurouslyat sea. The grotesque fact of his sending warming-pans to hot climates, andof the ships captain selling them for ladles for molasses and returning with afortune, was an old-time wonder-tale, as well as the joke of his writing a bookcalled A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, and putting all the punctuation markson the last page, with the direction to the readers to Pepper the dish to suitthemselves. His strange mansion and gardens and statues are still to be seen pictured inold books, as is his own portrait in costume, with embroidered vest, cockedhat, and laced
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