. Book of the Royal blue . Im sorry for the feller that is writin of his sorry for the debtor an Im sorry for the creditor. Im sad about most ever one that we considers Folks. I suppose if I was married Id be sorry that I wasnt—But whats the use o grievin over things you never did? But Im sort o sorry, sometimes, an think it would be pleasantTo walk abroad with Sally tellin stories to a kid. THE LAST HOURS OF WASHINGTON. ILES L. mN 1797, George Washington, afterserving his country eight years asits Chief Executive, resigned thereins of government into the handsof his successo
. Book of the Royal blue . Im sorry for the feller that is writin of his sorry for the debtor an Im sorry for the creditor. Im sad about most ever one that we considers Folks. I suppose if I was married Id be sorry that I wasnt—But whats the use o grievin over things you never did? But Im sort o sorry, sometimes, an think it would be pleasantTo walk abroad with Sally tellin stories to a kid. THE LAST HOURS OF WASHINGTON. ILES L. mN 1797, George Washington, afterserving his country eight years asits Chief Executive, resigned thereins of government into the handsof his successor, John Adams, and retiredto private life. On his way to Mount Vernon his path vcascrowded with people of all ranks and con-ditions in life, anxious to do him attended him, and towns vied witheach other in paying to him marks ofrespect. In the calm retreat of his earlylife, where he had toiled over his booksand stored his mind with the means ofmaking himself a practical man, alone wasthere repose for GEORGE WASHINGTON. While he was elsewhere, the world couldnot be less attentive to him than to the mostpopular ruler, and he could only feel thathe was a private citizen in his own retreatin the shades of Mount \ernon, the Meccaof every devotee of pure and disinterestedpatriotism and freedom. He retired fromthe position of a guardian over a nationwith the satisfaction of having done moregood than it has ever fallen to the lot ofany military man, in any age, to had not only succeeded in directing themilitary affairs of a whole people, so as tosecure to them the enjoyment of libertyand the pursuit of happiness, but hadapplied his soul to guide the State as itsChief Magistrate, so that he produced order from confusion, and laid a founda-tion of remarkable beauty, symmetry andpower, on which to rear a prosperous,confederate republic. Only once was his quiet life disturbed—when the threatened trouble with Franceloomed up from the countrys horizon, a
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