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On Historic Ground. 



IT is an experience worth the having to pass a 

 delightful May-day in an old colonial mansion ; to 

 be able to wander about a spacious dwelling built 

 more than two hundred years ago, still in excellent 

 repair, and not fatally modernized. Think of it ! 

 I passed a postprandial hour in a cozy room 

 wherein Franklin and his friend Galloway were 

 wont to discuss electricity and the coming crisis. 

 Whether or not Galloway thought Franklin a 

 crank in the matter of electricity, possibly no one 

 knows ; but these intellectual giants took opposite 

 sides politically, and for aught I know, parted, 

 during Revolutionary times, for their remaining 

 years. 



It was a happy thought, on mine host's part, to 

 give me an inkling of the mansion's history; 

 forthwith my imagination did me good service in 

 peopling every nook and corner with the old-time 

 folk. The stately, high-backed chairs were 



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