Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis (1894) (14577239969)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis

Year: 1894 (1890s)

Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905

Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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GOVERNMENT BUILDING. books, known as The Devil and Tom Walker, a warning to usurers,speculators, and all over-reaching people. Stories of Lord Timothy Dexter and old New England GhostStories were among the interesting narratives that had entertainedthe society. We give two of these,— Blingo the Blacksmith, orLord Timothy Dexters Poet and The Darby Ring.

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THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETYS QUEER STORIES. 63 BLINGO, THE BLACKSMITH. Tommy Topp sat sunning himself in the wide open door of Blingos black-smith shop, when a cloud of oust appeared in the highway; a chariot presentlybroke into view from the dusty cloud, and four black horses stopped underthe golden elms that shaded a rustic watering-trough near the rural smithy. This was a strange event. People did not ride in chariots in Massachu-setts during the last century, as a rule, and never in a chariot like this.

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