The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Henry Edwards Scott

9780366537310: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68

Things associated with history interested him as they did me. Here as in most ways our tastes were congenial. We were good walkers, and tramped together untiring to the historic spots. He showed me Gallows Hill, where the witches were hanged, and the bridge where the Salemites claim that armed resistance to British authority was made before the Concord fight. We tramped round the bay to the old fort, which sheltered the Constitution, ﬂeeing before the English ﬂeet in the War of 1812, and pondered the scratches on the old desk, made by Hawthorne's penknife as he evolved the tragedy of poor Hester Prynne. Once, while crossing a street, he called my attention to a cobblestone in the pavement of the gutter which his foot had just pressed. I always trod on that particular stone, said he, going to and coming from school through out my boyhood, and it would hurt me to tread on any other as I cross. A small cropping-out of the steadfastness and method which served him to such good purpose later.

At graduation no one of our men was more universally liked and respected than he. Others surpassed him in scholarship, though here he was sound and broad. There were brilliant fellows who shone later in fields more directly under the world's gaze than the one he chose, but we all confided in the warm heart and good head of Fitz. Nathan was not franker or more fearless with Thou art the man than he was, if a companion slipped. He heartened the desponding and acclaimed without envy the successful, a ecueil iator in quarrels and a counsellor to men perplexed. He was truth ful, often bluntly so, and insincerity in others withered under his word and gaze.

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