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The heat abated nothing; so terrible was it in the city that spite of the shade afforded by elm, lime, and honey-locust, men and horses were stricken on the streets, and the Tea Water ran low, and the Collect, where it flows out into a streaer's swamps stank Also, as was noted by men like me, who, country-bred, concern themselves with trifles, the wild birds which haunted the trees in street and lane sang no e-birds, beaks open, eyes partly closed, panting from the sun, so fierce it beat upon us in New York that suht with his Flatbush birds, we tried a shake-bag, stags, which, though fairly matched and handled by pastor spur, till we understood that the heat had stunned theave up to wait for cooler sport

We waited, but not in idleness; the cage-fever drove us afield, and the De Lanceys had us to the house for bowls and cricket, which the ladies joined, spoiling it soolf at Mr Lispenard's, which presently lost all charm for me, as Elsin Grey remained at the pavilion and touched no club, neither wood nor iron, save to beat the devil's tattoo upon the grass and ston's we found tennis, too, and good rackets, and I played one whole ht that she beat aveto appear well in trials of skill at which it is a shaallant to do one's best with ladies to oppose

Every Tuesday, at Bayard's Hill near the pu of dogs, was never to entle at many places--at Newmarket on Salisbury plain, and at Jamaica; also Mr Lispenard had a fine course at Greenwich village, near the country house of Admiral Warren, and Mr De Lancey another between First and Second streets, near the Bowery Lane; buthorses; and I was asha challenge to a wager, laying bets under my nose; but I could not risk money and remember how every penny saved meant to some prisoner aboard the Jersey more than a drop of water to a soul in torment