Excerpt from Belhaven Tales Crow's Nest Una and King David In these echoing rooms had, from time to time, gathered all the celebrities of the day, coming to visit the haunts of Washington and to taste Virginian courtesy. And here, at a much later date, upon the occasion of his fourth visit to America, in 1824, was domiciled the gallant Lafayette. The tale of a famous reception tendered to that fortunate Frenchman is still told in the town. Escorted by citizens and mili tiamen, freemasons and Revolutionary survivors, the Nation's Guest passed along streets strewn with roses by the children of the place, beneath a trium phal arch the like of which in grandeur had never been seen. At the moment when the hero paused beneath the arch, a real eagle (politely furnished for the occasion by the proprietor of a museum) was seen to flap its wings, and heard to utter a scream of victory. This climax, it was afterward ascertained, was secured by a boy who, at the critical moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.