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Hugon went a-trading to the Southern Indians, but had lately returned to

his lair at the crossroads ordinary, when, upon a sunny Septe,

Audrey and Mistress Deborah, mounted upon the sorriest of Darden's sorry

steeds, turned from Duke of Gloucester into Palace Street They had parted

with the minister before his favorite ordinary, and were on their way to

the house where they the the three days of

town life which Darden had vouchsafed to offer the black ribbons for the King,

who died in June, but in the last day or so there had been a reversion to

bright colors This cheerful change had been wrought by the arrival in the

York of the Fortune of Bristol, with the new governor on board His

Excellency had landed at Yorktown, and, after suitable entertainment at

the hands of its citizens, had proceeded under escort to Williah

The entry into the toas triumphal, and when, at the doorway of his

Palace, the Governor turned, and addressed a pleasing oration to the

people who and ht the toas illuentlemen visited the Palace, in order to

pay their duty to its latest occupant It was a pleasure-loving people,

and the arrival of a governor an occasion of which the most must be made

Gentle with

thehters In the mild, sunshiny weather the crowded town