. The New England magazine. reverential awe as the old meeting-house on the hill; no institu-tion of learning has excelled the old dis-trict school, where the twig was firstbent, and felt too; no festival eversurpassed in extravagance and in relish theold Thanksgiving dinner; no happinesshas been found, far or near, to be com-pared with that at the old country fire-side. Such are some of the interestingthings of which one likes to read inthe books, as one spends summer daysin the historic town, and of which onelikes to think, as one walks up anddown the village street at morning orat night. As
. The New England magazine. reverential awe as the old meeting-house on the hill; no institu-tion of learning has excelled the old dis-trict school, where the twig was firstbent, and felt too; no festival eversurpassed in extravagance and in relish theold Thanksgiving dinner; no happinesshas been found, far or near, to be com-pared with that at the old country fire-side. Such are some of the interestingthings of which one likes to read inthe books, as one spends summer daysin the historic town, and of which onelikes to think, as one walks up anddown the village street at morning orat night. As the lingering sunbeams fadefrom the brow of the distant hills, theevening winds waft the sound of achurch bell through the quiet valley,and the initiate tells the stranger thatthis is the curfew, which rings now asit did a hundred years ago. At nineoclock at night the same soundbreaks the stillness, for this is a rem-nant of the English custom of ring-ing the proper bedtime hour, whenthrifty housewives cover the fire with. FIREPLACE IN THE BARR MANSION. ashes and prepare for slumber. Thereare few New England villages wherethe bells have a sweeter sound orwhere one would seem to have rightand title to a sweeter sleep than in thisquaint village of old New Ipswich. A PACKAGE OF OLD LOVE LETTERS. FROM THE PRINCE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS. Copied and Edited by C. Alice Baker.
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