Excerpt from Chronicles of the City of Gotham, From the Papers of a Retired Common Councilman
There is reason in the boiling of eggs, as well as in roasting them.
IT was one of those charming spring mornings, so peculiar to our western clime, when the light, cheer ing sunshine invites abroad to taste the balmy air, but when, if you chance to accept the invitation, you will be saluted by a killing, piercing, sea monster of a breeze, which chills the genial current of the soul, and drives you shivering to the fire-side to warm your fingers, and complain for the hundredth time of the backwardness of the season. In short, it was a non-descript day, too hot for a great coat, and too cool to go without one; when one side of the street was broiling in the sun, the other freezing in the shade.
Mr. Lightfoot Lee was seated at the breakfast table, with his only daughter, Miss Lucia Light foot Lee, one of the prettiest alliterations ever seen. She was making up her Opinions for the day, from the latest number of the London Literary Gazette, and marking with a gold self-sharpening pencil a list of books approved by that infallible oracle, for the circulating library. Mr. Lee was occupied with matters of more importance. He held his watch in one hand, a newspaper in the other. By the way, if I wished to identify a North American beyond all question, I would exhibit him reading a newspaper. But at present Mr. Lee seemed employed in study ing his watch, rather than the paper. He had good reasons for it.
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