THE LITERARY 



OF THE LINNiEAN ASSOCIATION OP PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE. 



Vol. 111. FEBRUARY, 1847. No. 4. 



LOOSE LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. NO. IV. 



VISIT TO A PRINCE WHO WAS NOT "AT HOME." 



"Captain, F wish to be put ashore at N — . " 



" ft shall be done, Sir." 



On the afternoon of the 14tli of last July, T was rapidly gliding 

 down the glorious Rhine on a small dandy steam boat, with her deck 

 crowded witli passengers. I heard French, German, Russian, English 

 and American spoken by the motley assemblage, for each of these na- 

 tions was fully represented. You see in one day all sorts of people in 

 the great thoroughfares in Europe, and here a whole polyglot at once. — ■ 

 An hour or two before I disembarked, I went up to a young man, who 

 had a beautiful girl carelessly leaning on his aim, while she gazed with 

 admiration on the ruins of an ancient castle we were just passing, and 

 addressed him thus: "You are an American, I presume, Sir!" "Yes, 

 Sir, and so are you, I take it.'''' I could almost always tell an American 

 in a crowd, — there's an indescribable something in his bearing, that dis- 

 tinguishes him, but I recognized this one, from the fact that one corner 

 of his mouth was slightly stained with tobacco : that is pre-eminently 

 an American characteristic. It was mutually gratifyirig to learn that we 

 were from the same city. — lived for twenty years three squares of each 

 other, — had often heard of each other, but never met. He introduced 

 me to his young wife, and who should she be, but the daughter of one 

 of my female schoolmates of by-gone years, for whom I remember hav- 

 ing felt a very tender juvenile passion. Strange coincidences do happen 

 in this journey of life ! 



"Get your trunk ready, Sir, — we shall soon be at at N — ." "Thank 



you. Captain!" We rounded a tongue of land, and the beautiful village 



of N — burst on our view. Towering high above the dwellings of its 



quiet citizens (for it is partly a Moravian town,) were seen the battle- 



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