of the army." This scene did not occur at head-quarters, but in a large temporary building a few miles in the interior, near whei'e the army lay at that time.

In the centre of the Hasbrouck House, or Head-quarters, is a large hall, having on one side au enormous fire-place, and containing seven doors, but only one window. Here Washington received his friends ; here large companies dined ; and here, from time to time, some of the most distinguished characters of the revolution, civil and military, were assembled. Colonel Nicholas Fish, of tlie Continental Army, used to

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relate an interesting fact connected with, this room. He was in Paris a short time before the death of the Marquis de Lafayette, who had lodged many nights beneath the roof of the " Hasbrouck House." Colonel Fish was invited, with the American minister, on one occasion, to sup at the house of the distinguished Marbois, who was the French Secretary of Legation in the United States during the revolution. Lafq^yette was one of the guests. At the supper hour the company was shown into a room which contrasted quite oddly with the Parisian elegance of the other apaitments, where they had spent the evening. A low, boarded, painted

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ceiling, with large beam?, a single small, uncurtained window, with numerous small doors, as well as the general style of the whole, gave, at first, the idea of the kitchen, or largest room, of a Dutch or Belgian farmhouse. On a long rough table was a repast, just as little in keeping with the refined cuisines of Paris, as the room was with its architecture. It consisted of a large dish of meat, uncouth-looking pastry, and wine in decanters and bottles, accompanied by glasses and silver mxigs, such as indicated other habits and tastes than those of modern Paris. ' ' Do you know where we now are ?" said Marbois to Lafayette and his American