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BOSTON MUSEUM.-" Led Astray." Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 12/13/1883 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM-"Led Astray." Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 12/12/1883 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Led Astray." Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 12/11/1883 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Led Astray." Performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMUSEMENTS. | 12/10/1883 | See Source »

...last clause shows his implicit belief that Saratoga society is made up of gamblers and blacklegs, who prey upon the unsuspecting and guileless youth that are drawn to that "sink of iniquity" by the regatta. Therefore, he thinks that his "free-born Vermonters" - who would never go astray of their own free-will and accord, but who might be compelled by the evil associations of the place to depart from the straight path of virtue - had better stay away from Saratoga until some one can "insure" them against the intrusion of the aforesaid gamblers and blacklegs; and as at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT DID NOT GO TO SARATOGA. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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