Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . en Girard could get a child into thecircle, even as a vi>itor, he was very happy. lie likedyoung girls and children and canary birds well, butbest of all he likrd his farm down in The ^vcry day, in his yellow gig, Girard drovi down there,and tiien took oft* liis coat and went to work. liehoetl and he jtruned, he looked after his IVuil and hi>stock, and when his own tal)le was >upi)liid he foundit easy to mU at a good profit whatever he chose tosen firm but adtled it to hi>
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . en Girard could get a child into thecircle, even as a vi>itor, he was very happy. lie likedyoung girls and children and canary birds well, butbest of all he likrd his farm down in The ^vcry day, in his yellow gig, Girard drovi down there,and tiien took oft* liis coat and went to work. liehoetl and he jtruned, he looked after his IVuil and hi>stock, and when his own tal)le was >upi)liid he foundit easy to mU at a good profit whatever he chose tosen firm but adtled it to hi> the mid>t of this personal prosperity, and just as STEPHEN GIRARD. 501 Pliiladelphia was fiiirly ivcovciiiiu fnnu the unsettUdconditions that followed the war, the yellow fever l)rokeout and desolated the city. Washington, with all hisotlieials, moved the government ot!ices to Germantown ;every one who could tied, and, flying, carried the con-tagion into the country places near riiiladelphia. Those. MODEL OF THK MOXTESQITETT IX BALCONY RAILING. who stayed lived in hourly fear, and hurried throughIhe streets like so many monks of La Trappe undervows to neither touch nor speak to another every house where people dwelt came the odorsof burning tobacco or tar, or some similar were closed, the books in the PhiladelphiaLibrary safely locked up ; there was no brawling at thetaverns, and people hardly dared to even meet to pray 502 A SYLVAy CITY. together. The death-calls echoed through the silent,grass-grown streets, and at niglit the watcher wouldhear at his neighhors door the cr}-, Bring out yourdead ! And the dead were brought; unwept over,uuprayed for, they were wrapped in the sheet in whichthey died, and were hurried into a box and thrown intoa great pit, rich and poor together. This was in ,and all sunnner the plague raged, until, when Septem-ber came, the city lay under the blazing sun as under agreat curse. Doctors were dead, nur
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