Talks about authors and their work . enear his home, but he came home one day veryangry, saying the teacher had accused him of tell-ing a lie, so he was allowed to leave that ten he was doing well in Latin and his otherstudies and began to prepare for college. In thesedays boys went to school very young, and HenryLongfellow was only fourteen years old when heentered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. When he was only thirteen he published hisfirst poem in the Gazette. It was called * TheBattle of Lovelis Pond. It recorded a battlebetween Lovell and the Indians, which took placenear
Talks about authors and their work . enear his home, but he came home one day veryangry, saying the teacher had accused him of tell-ing a lie, so he was allowed to leave that ten he was doing well in Latin and his otherstudies and began to prepare for college. In thesedays boys went to school very young, and HenryLongfellow was only fourteen years old when heentered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. When he was only thirteen he published hisfirst poem in the Gazette. It was called * TheBattle of Lovelis Pond. It recorded a battlebetween Lovell and the Indians, which took placenear Hiram, where his grandfather lived. Thefew men who escaped had run down the road toOssipee, past the old homestead. The poem was TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. 79 dropped into the letter box at the printing office,and the night before the paper was printed hewent down to the office again and looked in thewindows, shivering in the cold but not daring togo in. No one but his sister knew the secret,and they were both much excited when the paper. ,.imL I* ? ?-- . BOWDOIN COLLEGE. came next morning. They had to wait whiletheir father slowly read the paper, and theyeagerly looked it over when their turn came andfound the poem was there, signed the success of this experiment he wasencouraged to keep on writing, and soon papers 80 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. and magazines were glad to get his poems as hewrote year after year in his school and collegedays. His vacations were spent at his grand-fathers home near Portland, and the farm-lifewas delightful to the boy who loved all followed the mowers, picked berries, wentafter the cows at night, helped the girls in thedairy to churn, and in the fall he enjoyed thecorn-husking frolics and the spinning andquilting bees. He sometimes went with hisgrandfather Longfellow on a long ride to visithis grandfather Wadsworth, who lived on anestate of seven thousand acres. This old manhad been an Adjutant-General in the Revolu-tionary War, and the
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