Nathan Burke (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Nathan Burke In a part of the book which (whatever the fate of the rest of it) hardly anybody ever reads, it may not be accounted bad taste for the editor of this history to mention herself, or to set down a few personal recollections. It might have been better to say one personal recollection, for, as usually happens, I find that what I unthinkingly supposed to be a number of consecutive and vivid impressions resolves, upon a rigid analysis, into a single one, and that rather hazy, connected with the inaugural ceremonies of some governor of our State, thirty-five or forty years ago - nearer forty, I fear! My grandfather took me to see the parade, a day to be registered with a white stone - though what governor it was, and what troops, whether militia or regulars that paraded, and why they did it, and what all the crowds, and hurrahing, and brazen uproar of bands, and huge spectacular to-do were about I knew no more than the man in the moon, no more than the other six-year-old youngsters, no more than I do at this moment, and cared as little. It was a raw, drizzling day in January - that being the season humanely selected by our authorities for all such civic celebrations in the open air; we stood on a platform or hustings, jammed in with many others, and I vaguely remember the proletariat surging at our feet. There was, no doubt, the usual protracted wait, the usual dashing up and down of important gentlemen in glorious regalia on horseback, the invariable policemen hustling the invariable drunk-and-disorderlies, the scurrying dogs, the bewildered but resolute old lady who will cross the street - no parade ever took place without these accessories. And then, at last, distant cheering, the Star-Spangled Banner on a whole platoon of key-bugles, and the soldiers wheeling into sight half a dozen blocks away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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