THE SIMPLE HONESTY EXPRESSED ITSELF

HE IS JUST AS GOOD AND SWEET AND LOVABLE

There sat the man, in actual flesh, whom I had heard of so many thousands of times since that day, thirty years before, when his name shot suddenly to the zenith from a Crimean battlefield, to remain forever celebrated.

THIS VERDICT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO ME

The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history.