Tarry at home travels . y brightEnglish-speaking man on the staff answered thatmarechal meant blacksmith. This pleased theYankee. Its an excellent trade/ he said;its an excellent trade. Our General Greene isa blacksmith. I have intimated in another article that ifyou will go up into northwest Connecticut, intothe neighborhood of Canaan Falls, you will findAsaph Hall, the same who discovered the moonsof Mars, and he will show yoa the glories ofhills and valleys and waterfalls on this you will spend a week or two at Norwich —they call it the Rose City — you will find a groupof charming
Tarry at home travels . y brightEnglish-speaking man on the staff answered thatmarechal meant blacksmith. This pleased theYankee. Its an excellent trade/ he said;its an excellent trade. Our General Greene isa blacksmith. I have intimated in another article that ifyou will go up into northwest Connecticut, intothe neighborhood of Canaan Falls, you will findAsaph Hall, the same who discovered the moonsof Mars, and he will show yoa the glories ofhills and valleys and waterfalls on this you will spend a week or two at Norwich —they call it the Rose City — you will find a groupof charming people who would never let me namethem, and you would have a chance to see howan independent town governs itself and howall the delights of the highest civilization may CONNECTICUT 241 be found without the clatter and frills of smokeand dust of a great city. In Hartford, as I said,or in New Haven, men say that you can get moreout of life in twenty-four hours than you cananywhere else in the world. This is sure, that. New Haven, from Ferry an old eugraving. in either of these places, if you sigh for a crowd,you may go to New York in three hours. If yousigh for the wilderness, the White Mountainsand the Adirondacks are not much farther was at New Haven on the second centennialof the beginning of the college. It was a goodtime to see the matchless loyalty of the different 242 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS classes as they made rendezvous in their oldhome. Wherever you meet these men it isinteresting to see how they really think that thereis no other university in the world than have a fine quotation from something inan original document which says that the collegeis created for the bringing up of men who maybe of service to the state. ^ I was pleased theother day, when, in trying to find out somethingabout their Governor Hopkins, one of the patronsof Harvard College while there was yet no YaleCollege, I found the same expression. He diedin 1659 in London, a
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