About eleven o'clock, when I was practically starved, Mr.Heckscher turned up.

I asked him what time they usually had breakfast in New York and he said about half-past twelve or any time therafter up to three.
At one, the gentlemen all made their appearance and were somewhat astonished at the amount of breakfast I stowed away, until they were told that I had been fasting since seven o'clock that morning.
During my visit to New York, I was taken by Mr.James Gordon Bennett to Niblo's Garden, where I saw "The Black Crook." We witnessed the performance from a private box and my breath was fairly taken away when the curtain went up on the fifth act.

Needless to say, that was the first time I had ever witnessed a musical show and I thought it the most wonderful spectacle I had ever gazed upon.
The remainder of my visit in New York was spent in a series of dinners and theater parties.

I was entertained in the house of each gentleman who had been with me on the hunt.

I had the time of my life.
After I had had about all the high life I could stand for the time being I set out for Westchester, Pa., to find the only relative I knew in the East.