. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . hrough the little window at which his mother usedto stand, with him in her arms, watching the new moonas it sank in the west, while she rattled a few pennies inher pocket as a sign of good luck for her husband awayat sea. The house still stands on Central Street, closeby the principal square of Peabody, the bustling mod-ern town which has replaced the quiet rural spot of thosedays. During the years preceding my fathers removal to Bos-ton, he attended the Salem Private Grammar School onGreen Street, under the charge of Master Benjamin Tap.
. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . hrough the little window at which his mother usedto stand, with him in her arms, watching the new moonas it sank in the west, while she rattled a few pennies inher pocket as a sign of good luck for her husband awayat sea. The house still stands on Central Street, closeby the principal square of Peabody, the bustling mod-ern town which has replaced the quiet rural spot of thosedays. During the years preceding my fathers removal to Bos-ton, he attended the Salem Private Grammar School onGreen Street, under the charge of Master Benjamin It was pleasantly located midway between Chest-nut and Green streets, but it was long ago removed andaltered into a dwelling-house. In the edition of March 28, 1885, the Salem Ob-server prints the programme of An Old-Time Exhibi-tion, and gives the names of several, in later years, well-known men, — Benjamin Peirce, the great mathematician,Henry Wheatland, Henry W. Pickering, and others, thenboys, who took part in the exhibition. Among them, my. ow XH H< OO LIFE IN SALEM 9 fathers name appears three times, twice in recitations andonce in a Latin dialogue. This must have occurred whenhe was about fourteen years of age. In a short comment upon a copy of the newspaper sentto him about the time of its publication in 1885, he givessome interesting details, which I cannot do better thanquote. Our cypherer, Ben Peirce, with his huge slatetoo large to be put in his desk and, consequently,always kept outside, not very free from dust either,but covered with figures . . the embryo Mathe-matician and Author showing early his dear, kindly fellow as he always was during lifeto me. . But of the teachers, I have visions. Awe-fulare my recollections of Abiel Chandler, with his oakferrule made with a rounded circle at its end of solidoak, just fit to play into the hand of the unfortunateurchin who had neglected his lesson or, from anycause, had not learned and had thereby
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