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Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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AMERICAN ADVENTURES retreated; and your humble servant for retreating whenhe should have advanced. Lee was a turbulent, insubordinate, hard-drinkingrascal, and nothing could be more characteristic than thewill, written in his own handwriting, filed by the oldrei)r()l)ate with the clerk of the Berkeley County Court,and expressing the following sentiments: I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any churchor churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Ana-baptist meeting house, for since I have resided in this county Ihave kept so much bad company when living that I do not desireto continue it when dead. During Lees life there, Leetown was probably a live-lier place than it is to-day. Something of its presentstate may be gathered from the fact that when a ladyof my acquaintance stopped her motor there recently,and asked some men what time it was, they staredblankly at her for a moment, after which one of themsaid seriously: *We dont know. We dont have time here. 116
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Whats the matter with him? I asked, stopping CHAPTER XIII RIDE A HORSE And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel droppd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. —King Henry IV. CLAYMONT COURT, near Charles Town, thehouse in which my companion and I were sofortunate as to be guests during our visit tothis part of the cotmtry, is one of the old Washingtonhouses, having been built by Bushrod Corbin Washing-ton, a nephew of the first President. It is a beautifulbrick building, with courts at either end, the brick wallsof which, connecting with the house, extend its lineswith peculiar grace, and tie to the main structure thetw^in buildings which balance it, according to the de-lightful fashion of early Virginia architecture. Thehexagonal brick tile of the front walk at ClaymontCourt, and the square stone pavement of the portico,resemble exactly those at Mount Vernon, and are saidto have been imported at the same tim

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