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chairs, table, and an old bookcase desk with 

 closets combined. The walls were hung with 

 trophies of the chase, fox heads, brushes, crop 

 sticks, and hunting pictures, and in the corners 

 were piled old flint lock muskets and pistols, old 

 fowling pieces, bayonets, canes, and other an- 

 tiques, while the top of the bookcase held several 

 old tall leather hats of Revolutionary and 1812 

 times, and on the table was a silver ice pitcher and 

 glasses on a silver waiter ready for business. 

 There Mr. Lewis entertained his numerous friends 

 for many years, and on Sunday mornings there 

 were sure to be several collected, for Sunday was 

 a great visiting day among residents of the county 

 at that time. Here you would often meet Ed- 

 ward Lewis, Samuel C. Lewis, Henry B. Edwards, 

 General Edward F. Beale, Frank Field, George E. 

 Darlington, J. Edward Farnum, Henry E. Saul- 

 nier, Edgar T. Miller, Isaac M. Lewis, Samuel 

 Miller, George W. Hill, Dr. Rush S. Huidekoper, 

 George M. Lewis, James C. Hall, H. M. Ash, Jas. 

 D. Rhoades, Dr. Samuel P. Bartleson, C. Fallon 

 Lewis, Jared Darlington, Bird Dixey, Dory 

 Wright, William H. Corlies, Walter M. Sharpies, 

 William Little, and other well-known men in the 

 county, for the hospitality of Mr, Lewis had a wide 

 and extended reputation. 



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