. The story of Cooperstown . city of its most distin-guished resident. He placed many villagers inhis debt by personal acts of kindness, and charmedall by his genial friendliness. In any companyhe was the chief source of entertainment. Al-though he applied himself intensely to officialwork during certain hours of every day in thesummer, when the hour of relaxation came helaid aside his task. With all his cares, he wasnever the grim man forcing himself to be contribution to the pleasure of a company wasspontaneous and contagious. Not the least highlydeveloped of his qualities was the Bi
. The story of Cooperstown . city of its most distin-guished resident. He placed many villagers inhis debt by personal acts of kindness, and charmedall by his genial friendliness. In any companyhe was the chief source of entertainment. Al-though he applied himself intensely to officialwork during certain hours of every day in thesummer, when the hour of relaxation came helaid aside his task. With all his cares, he wasnever the grim man forcing himself to be contribution to the pleasure of a company wasspontaneous and contagious. Not the least highlydeveloped of his qualities was the Bishops senseof humor. He was an incomparable raconteur,and many an incident of village life gave him ma-terial for a story which, with certain poetic licenseof embellishment that he sometimes allowed him- TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNINGS 395 self, set his hearers in a roar. He was as readyto hear a good story as to tell one, and his ringinglaugh was a delight. The Bishop talked muchand well. His use of the pause in speaking, with. A. F. Bradley Bishop Potter a momentary compression of the lips now andthen between clauses, heightened the effect ofcrispness in his felicitously chosen phrases. Hewas a good listener if one had anything to say,but he was not averse to presiding in monologueover a number of people, and often did so, forhis fund of talk was so rich that others, in his 396 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN presence, were sometimes slow to offer any con-tribution of their own. He was most adroit atthis sort of entertainment, and had a way of ap-parently bringing others of the company into theconversation—usually those who seemed rather
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