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met; Go, forget me, Why should Sorrow o'er that Brow a Shadow
fling; Hours there were to Memory Dearer, Long, Long Ago;
Days of Absence; A Life on the Ocean Wave, a Home on the
Rolling Deep; Bird at Sea; and spread open on the rack, where the
plaintive singer has left it, Jfo-holl on, silver woo-hoon, guide the
£mt>el-lerr his way, etc. Tilted pensively against the piano, a guitar
—guitar capable of playing the Spanish Fandango by itself, if you
give it a start. Frantic work of art on the wall—pious motto, done
on the premises, sometimes in coloured yarns, sometimes in faded
grasses: progenitor of the * God Bless Our Home * of modern com-
merce. Framed in black mouldings on the wall, other works of arts,
conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies;
being grim black-and-white crayons ; landscapes, mostly : lake, soli-
tary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite
precipice; name of criminal conspicuous in the corner* Lithograph,
Napoleon Grossing the Alps. Lithograph, The Grave at St. Helena.
Steel-plates, Trumbull's Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Sally from
Gibraltar. Copper-plates, Moses Smiting the Bock, and Return of
the Prodigal Son. In big gilt frame, slander of the family in oil:
papa holding a book (* Constitution of the United States *); guitar
leaning against mam-ma, blue ribbons fluttering from its neck; the
young ladies, as children, in slippers and scalloped pantelettes, one
embracing toy horse, the other beguiling kitten with ball of yarn, and
both simpering up at mamma, who simpers back. These persons all
fresh, raw, and red—apparently skinned. Opposite, in gilt frame,
grandpa and grandma, at thirty and twenty-two, stiff, old-fashioned,
high-collared, puff-sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of
solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French dock dome, large
bouquet of stiff flowers done in corpsy- white wax. Pyramidal what-
nofe in the corner, the shelves occupied chiefly with bric-£-brac of the
pedod, disposed with an eye to best effect: shell, with the Lord's
Grayer carved on it; another shell—of the long-oval sort, narrow,
straight orifice, three inches long, running from end to end—portrait
c£ Washington carved on it; not well done; the shell had Wash-
ington's mouth, originally—artist should have built to that. These
two are memorials of the long-ago bridal trip to New Orleans and
tfae French Market. Other bric-^-brac; Californian * specimens'—