. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. gether. What followed will be told inHenrys own words: Relying upon my good be-haviour & confident that my request would begranted, I asked him to make me a New Yearspresent of Shakspeare. But the old gentlemanstared most exceeding hard at me, & advised merather to employ myself in the regular College stud-ies than meddle with such works as reply forcibly reminded me of an anathemathundered out against the same author by a certainrigid Puritan. To Tophet with his wicked book,and to the Vale of Rimmon
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. gether. What followed will be told inHenrys own words: Relying upon my good be-haviour & confident that my request would begranted, I asked him to make me a New Yearspresent of Shakspeare. But the old gentlemanstared most exceeding hard at me, & advised merather to employ myself in the regular College stud-ies than meddle with such works as reply forcibly reminded me of an anathemathundered out against the same author by a certainrigid Puritan. To Tophet with his wicked book,and to the Vale of Rimmon with his accursed really believe that Father would rather Shak-speare had never lived, but here I cant agree withhim. While recording all these happenings, we must notforget a very important one, the birth on January8, 1838, of Louisas little son. Louisa was herselfthe youngest daughter and had always been a greatpet, and so when her son was bom, she promptlynamed him after her father. None of Lockwood deForests grandchildren had ever been named for [ 146]. PORTRAIT OF LOCKWOOD DE FOREST, 1838, PROBABLY BY SAMUEL WALDO Owned by Samuel Downer Family Ties him, and he was immensely pleased. He gave the Bridgeportboy ^loo., a silver cup, &c., and he and his wifeimmediately began to plan a visit to Albany to seeLouisa and the new little Lockwood. Such a tripwas not, however, to be lightly undertaken. It•meant fatiguing journeys in stage-coaches and wasnot so simple a matter as to get in the gig and,driving Peacock and Pedlar, go over to Fairfield tosee Mary. Lockwood, though always fond of horses, showedless judgment in purchasing them than did his sonWheeler. After Peacock and Pedlar, his first span,had ceased, for some reason, to be satisfactory, therecame a succession of others, all giving Mr. de Forestmore or less trouble and anxiety. Jim, who was al-ways a horse lover, once wrote to Henry: A shorttime after you went away one of the yellow, big,twin horses got lame, a
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