Excerpt from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 13: June to November, 1856
I was privileged to peep into Portfolio’s sketch-book on his return, and found it filled with views of places rather than of characters. Only one sketch of life at the Springs attracted my special attention. It was drawn: hastily from life with a dull pencil, and, as Portfolio observed, with a duller pen. It was a scene at the Lower Spring at drinking-time - the stated hour when omnibuses and coaches came from the village filled with the imbibers and bathers. At this hour scenes often occurred which would.
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