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find the very original of every one of the hundred 

 pictures they have seen, painted by pen or pencil. 

 They will find that all of them have been true copies 

 from nature. Here is the portly-looking, well-to-do, 

 two-story tavern, standing out with its comfortable, 

 cream-colored face broadside to the street. It is repre- 

 sented in the old engraving with a coach-and-four 

 drawn up before the door, surrounded by a crowd of 

 spectators and passengers, some descending or ascend- 

 ing on ladders over the forward wheels ; some looking 

 with admiration at the scarlet coats of the pursy and 

 consequential driver and guard ; some exchanging greet- 

 ings, others farewell salutations ; ostlers in long waist- 

 coats, plush or fustian shorts, and yellow leggings, 

 standing bareheaded with watering-pails at the " 'osses' 

 'eads;" trunks great and small going up and down; 

 village boys in high excitement ; village grandfathers 

 looking very animated ; the landlord, burly, bland, and 

 happy, with a face as rotund and genial as the full 

 moon shining upon the scene ; and those round, rosy, 

 sunny, laughing faces peering out of the windows with 

 delightful wonderment and exhiliaration, winked at by 

 the driver, and saluted with a graceful motion of his 

 whip-handle in recognition of the barmaid, chamber- 

 maid, and all the other maids of the house. The coach, 

 with all its picturesque appointments, its four-in-hand, 



