Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

M. LOUIS BLANC1

A NIGHT ON THE BANKS OF THE TENNESSEE

THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE

THE WITCHFINDER

Part I

NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN.19

POEMS BY COVENTRY PATMORE.22

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN

Part XIII

IT IS NO FICTION

THE BURNS’ FESTIVAL

THE BANQUET

STANZAS FOR THE BURNS’ FESTIVAL

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“Can you tell us how far we are from Brown’s ferry?” said I to a man, who came suddenly and silently upon us from a narrow side-path.

We were on the banks of the Tennessee: the evening was drawing in; the fog, that hung over land and river, was each moment thickening. The landscape had a wild chaotic appearance, and it was scarcely possible to distinguish objects at five paces distance.

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“The devil take the Bainbridge roadmaster—I repeat it!” cried Richards, half in earnest and half laughing, raising his muddy and bootless foot as he spoke, and placing it on a chair. “See there, men! I may thank him for the loss of my boot. The cursed swamp between here and the ferry was kind enough to pull it off for me.”

The roar of laughter that responded to these words would inevitably have broken the windows, had there been any glass in them. Fortunately the latter luxury was wanting; its place being supplied by fragments of old inexpressibles, and of ci-devant coats and waistcoats.

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