Note 10 — RANDOM PASSAGES FROM ROUGH NOTES OF A VISIT TO ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND GERMANY.
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The 'Old Man' of the Bubbles denounces these trumpets, but verily they are preferable to the long tin horns of the English 'guards,' which are indeed enough to
——'break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder! Hark, hark! the horrid sound; He raises his head as if waked from the dead, And amazed he stares around!'