Forest leaves . - Boccase in Decameron. Longfellow thought to join the party of his great-brained friends, buthe hated killing animals, and had no interest in fishing, and was toosettled in his habits to enjoy so great a change. Besides there was Emer-. William James Stillman. sons purchase of a rifle. Is it true that Emerson is going to take a gun ?he asked. That settled the matter for the poet. I shall not go, he said;somebody will be shot. Emerson indeed carried a rifle only after manyprotests, and neither man nor beast suffered in consequence. Stillman says that Lowell was the Mag
Forest leaves . - Boccase in Decameron. Longfellow thought to join the party of his great-brained friends, buthe hated killing animals, and had no interest in fishing, and was toosettled in his habits to enjoy so great a change. Besides there was Emer-. William James Stillman. sons purchase of a rifle. Is it true that Emerson is going to take a gun ?he asked. That settled the matter for the poet. I shall not go, he said;somebody will be shot. Emerson indeed carried a rifle only after manyprotests, and neither man nor beast suffered in consequence. Stillman says that Lowell was the Magnus Appollo of the Castalian humor, his unceasing play of wit and erudition,—poetrvand the best of the poets always on tap at the table,—all knew them, who 6 FOREST LEAVES. knew him well/5 When he sat at one side of the table, and Judge Hoar(the most pyrotechnic wit I have have known) and he were matchingtable-talk, with Emerson and Agassiz to sit as umpires and revive the vimas it menaced to flag, (Holmes and Estes, however, were not silent inthe well-matched contest), the forest echoed with such laughter as noclub ever knew, and owls came in the trees overhead to wonder. Thesewere symposia to which fortune has invited few men, and which no
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