. Anglo-Belgic ballads and legends, and other tales in verse. ROBERT KNOX, Esq., IX ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS AND HIS IN THE FIELD OF anatomy;IS DEDICATED, HIS FRIEND, THE ilje |c([£ of Codi; DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. This tale is founded on fact. Many years havebeen booked by old father Time in his voluminousledger, since my excellent grandmother used toastonish my juvenile ears with wonderful tales ofghosts, white boys, robbers, and murderers. Alas,she is gone to that bourne from whence notraveller returns. Yet I have not forgotten her,nor her tales; for the deceased narr
. Anglo-Belgic ballads and legends, and other tales in verse. ROBERT KNOX, Esq., IX ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS AND HIS IN THE FIELD OF anatomy;IS DEDICATED, HIS FRIEND, THE ilje |c([£ of Codi; DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. This tale is founded on fact. Many years havebeen booked by old father Time in his voluminousledger, since my excellent grandmother used toastonish my juvenile ears with wonderful tales ofghosts, white boys, robbers, and murderers. Alas,she is gone to that bourne from whence notraveller returns. Yet I have not forgotten her,nor her tales; for the deceased narrator and heranecdotes, visions of the Past, will occasionally flitand intei-mingle witli the realities of the Present. It was the beautiful Gobelin tapestry, exhibitedat the Crystal Palace, that recalled the circumstancefrom the memory of the past. 144 THE BELLE OF CORK. Reader! Fancy yourself in an old-fashionedbedchamber hung with tapestry, at two in themorning, every soul in the house fast asleep inthe arms of Morpheus. And now fancy, as youare taking a cursory survey of the figures wroughton the tapestry, that you perceive the glimmerof two orbs, sternly fixed on your eyes, fascinatin
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