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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 38 The House Beautiful
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Tilted pensively against the piano, a guitar--guitar capable of playing the Spanish Fandango by itself, if you give it a start.

Frantic work of art on the wall--pious motto, done on the premises, sometimes in colored yarns, sometimes in faded grasses: progenitor of the 'God Bless Our Home' of modern commerce.

Framed in black moldings on the wall, other works of arts, conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies; being grim black-and-white crayons; landscapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice; name of criminal conspicuous in the corner.

Lithograph, Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
Lithograph, The Grave at St.Helena.

Steel-plates, Trumbull's Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Sally from Gibraltar.


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