The Pine-tree coast . LONGFELLOW AND HIS HOME. accommodation, because it gave him a nights rest at Freemans tavern, at CapeISTeddock. Another gifted poet, in another land, has left on record his views withrespect to this now antiquated mode of travel, from which it will be seen howrailways have reduced travellers to compulsory taciturnity. Southey remarksin one of his letters that it is only in a stage-coach that I am on an equalfooting with my companions, and it is there that I talk the most and have themm the best humor with me. 164 THE PINE-TREE ¥mA h WADSWORTH. While in the vicinit
The Pine-tree coast . LONGFELLOW AND HIS HOME. accommodation, because it gave him a nights rest at Freemans tavern, at CapeISTeddock. Another gifted poet, in another land, has left on record his views withrespect to this now antiquated mode of travel, from which it will be seen howrailways have reduced travellers to compulsory taciturnity. Southey remarksin one of his letters that it is only in a stage-coach that I am on an equalfooting with my companions, and it is there that I talk the most and have themm the best humor with me. 164 THE PINE-TREE ¥mA h WADSWORTH. While in the vicinity it would be our own loss not to drop into the studioof Mr. Harry Brown, who, as the enthusiastic lover of the scenery of this hisnative city, and its truest interju-eter withal, has done so much to make itknown to the great world of art. A visit to his studio is almost as good as asummer vacation. A most interesting hour may be spent among the monuments in the EasternCemetery, the oldest in the town. The earliest stones must be sought for among the rank grass of the southeast almost expect to see Old Mortality startup from among the head-stones here. Andone can almost trace successive stages of thetowns growth in the changing character ofthese memorials, as of emancipation from thethraldom of old ideas, associating death withall that Avas repulsive or hideous in the mort-uary symbols. Commodore Edward Preble is buried inthis yard ; gallant Harry Wadsworth, too,who was blown up at Tripoli, has his me-morial ; so also has Parson Smith,*
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