The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . e fact that the thensmall village of Fisherville, now Pen-acook, alone had eight of its volun-teers killed, or died of wounds in thataction, viz., Ebenezer Daggett, Alex-ander S. Stevens, John Clancy, Rich-ard Nolan, Lorenzo F. Connor, Free-man Ferrin, L. G. Raymond, andJoseph C. Morrill. [to be continued.] A DAWN Frank Walcolt Hittt. There is no faintest stir of light upon Yon huddled lowlands banked in dim array,But in an hour the east, inert and gray, Will move with cloud processions and, anon, Surge up
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . e fact that the thensmall village of Fisherville, now Pen-acook, alone had eight of its volun-teers killed, or died of wounds in thataction, viz., Ebenezer Daggett, Alex-ander S. Stevens, John Clancy, Rich-ard Nolan, Lorenzo F. Connor, Free-man Ferrin, L. G. Raymond, andJoseph C. Morrill. [to be continued.] A DAWN Frank Walcolt Hittt. There is no faintest stir of light upon Yon huddled lowlands banked in dim array,But in an hour the east, inert and gray, Will move with cloud processions and, anon, Surge up with all the colors of the dawn; And that red, streaming glint, whose beacon rayAll night has sentinelled the sleeping bay, Will toss and glimmer till the stars grow wan. A fleet of tiny craft outbraves the deep,Winging its seaway oer the harbor bar;And now and then the winds, returning, blow A fishers song, while from their hillside sleepThe early risen echoes, near and far,Swine: to the sailors hearty Yo heave ho! 3/5T JOHN DANFORTH AND CAMP George II. JOHN D AX-FORTH, thearchitect of hisown fortuneand the builderof the most at-tractive sports-mens camp inNew England,was not always as constructive inhis nature as his latterday laborsevidence; and in his boyhood hewas moved by a destructive spiriteven, as for instance when he ranaway from school in order to be-come an Indian fighter on the that time Danforths father was atanner in Bristol—the home of thetanner who became governor, by theway—and the lad had been put toschool at the historic New Hamptoninstitution. Scholastic restraintswere irksome, however, and the ladset out to satisfy his longing to takea few scalps, as he phrases it him-self. Scalp-taking was not a conspic-uous success and John Danforth cameback to his fathers house with nogory trophies, but with a wide expe-rience. The lads of the village wereinclined to jeer at the chop-fallenyoung plainsman and the spur of rid-icule drove
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