. American lands and letters. oaking of the waste j^ roads, as he conceived of them, sliouldcarry hymns and sermons and hallelujahs in theircedars aud drai)ing vines. One might believe thatit would make him lie uneasily in his grave if heknew of the vandalism of the telegraph joeople, andthe yet greater vandalism of legislators Avho decreethe extirpation of skirting cojopices of vines andplants from our road-sides. With what a yearningof the heart he would have seen this despoilmentof the old and charming ruralities of our countrytowns ! This yearning for the bounties and thebless
. American lands and letters. oaking of the waste j^ roads, as he conceived of them, sliouldcarry hymns and sermons and hallelujahs in theircedars aud drai)ing vines. One might believe thatit would make him lie uneasily in his grave if heknew of the vandalism of the telegraph joeople, andthe yet greater vandalism of legislators Avho decreethe extirpation of skirting cojopices of vines andplants from our road-sides. With what a yearningof the heart he would have seen this despoilmentof the old and charming ruralities of our countrytowns ! This yearning for the bounties and theblessed things of Nature Avas what equipped himand encouraged him for that exploitation of thewaste places in his home city of Hartford, whichby dint of his assiduities and taste—and their fullappreciation by the authorities—gave that Con-necticut city the charming little park which car-ries its green welcome to the eye of every passingtraveller, and perpetuates, in the happiest andtenderest way, the memory of Horace N. P. WILLIS. 95 There has been qnestioii of his statue thereabout,but his presence is richer than any statue, and isall over the place. A Man of Other Mettle. On the third floor of old North College, whichcarries homely and honest reminders of studentlife at Yale seventy years ago—there roomed inBushnells time, (1837) and over against him, inthe northwest corner, a classmate three years hisjunior, who contrasted strongly with the dark-haired, independent, sturdy, perha23s somewhatawkward, man who hailed from Litchfield County,and whose career and character are sketched inthese last pages. The other student had engaging ways; he hadblue eyes and flaxen hair and a degacje manner,which showed other associations than those withfarmers by Lake Waramaug. He had writtenpoems, too, even before his advent to college,which had been published in his fathers paper,the Boston Recorder, and thence had run, byreason of the picturesque qualities that shone inthem, thr
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