waved handkerchiefs joyfully from a neighboring bluff.
Each star of the flag bore the name in pencil of the young lady who sewed it on. The Maggies, and Julias, and Sues, and Kates, and Sallies, who thus left their autographs upon their handiwork, did not anticipate that it would so soon be scrutinized by Yankee soldiers. And, doubtless, "Julia K----," the damsel whose star I pilfered, scarcely aspired to the honor of furnishing a relic for The Tribune cabinet.
[CHAPTER XI.]
And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Bloody instructions, which being taught, return
To plague the inventors.
Macbeth.
The Retributions of Time.