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I SHOULD think Buffalo would be called the “City of Churches.” There
must be hundreds of churches there. I went with my uncle and brother to
look at different ones, and it took us two days just to see those which
were on three streets of the city. Some of them are lovely, and some
were great, dark-looking buildings, like jails.
LUCY STONE.
* * * * *
[On the whole we consider these Buffalo letters
decidedly unique. A little ahead of anything in that
line which the Pansies have yet given us. Certainly
some rather original ideas in regard to cities in
general have been advanced, and we have been given a
better chance than usual to mark the progress which
time has made. We are somewhat surprised that no one
has described a ride to or from the city on one of the
canal packets. That is a vivid memory of our childhood
which we would like to tell you about were there time.
Our material is as usual not exhausted, but our space
is. I presume Buffalo will fare like the cities which
have preceded it—that is, some of the best letters will
come too late to use. If our Pansies could only learn
to start three months ahead!—EDITORS.]
MAJOR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
V.
THIS is a beautiful moonlight evening, but you would rather listen to
me than bark at the moon?
All right; I don’t mind talking when I have good listeners, but to try
to tell a story and be constantly reminded that those to whom you talk
are thinking of something else, is not pleasant.
What shall I talk about to-night?
“Something concerning our relatives away back?”
So you want to know what kind of blood there is in our veins? That is
an interesting theme for some, and why not for us?
It is not three days since I heard our master boast that he had
descended from the Pilgrim Fathers. We do not all claim to be related,
but we are of one family now, and so interested in each other.
I like to think that some of my relatives have done good and
been faithful; so I think I will tell you what one of my
great-great-great-uncles did a long time ago.
His name was Sport, and at the time to which I refer he lived with a
man by the name of Stillman. He was thought much of for hunting, and
because of his skill in this direction he had a chance to earn the
reputation which so many envied; that is, to earn it in just the way he
did.
I want my young friends to remember that the way is always open for
any dog to get a good name if he will only try. Why, even a little
insignificant poodle can be of use. There is our neighbor, Mr. Fellows;
he had two or three dog sentinels all about his place, and the other
night a man got clear to his front door, and none of these big fellows
said or knew any thing of it; but the moment the man reached the door
little Tip, the poodle, notified the whole house.
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