. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. whosetime the dit^mantled appearance of theAVest Church gave occasion to a scenenot usually forming a part of the a couple of Jack Tars were passing by the meeting-houseon a Sunday, observing the remains of the steeple, which wascut down by the British troops in the year L775, Stop, Jack,says one of them, d—n my eyes, but this ship is in distress;she has struck her topmast. Lets go on board and lend her ahand. L^pon which they went in, but, hnding no assistanceAvas required of them, they sat down until service was their going ou
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. whosetime the dit^mantled appearance of theAVest Church gave occasion to a scenenot usually forming a part of the a couple of Jack Tars were passing by the meeting-houseon a Sunday, observing the remains of the steeple, which wascut down by the British troops in the year L775, Stop, Jack,says one of them, d—n my eyes, but this ship is in distress;she has struck her topmast. Lets go on board and lend her ahand. L^pon which they went in, but, hnding no assistanceAvas required of them, they sat down until service was their going out they were heard to say, Faith, the shipwhich we thought was in distress has the ablest pilot on boardthat we ve seen for many a day. Elmwood comprises about thirteen acres, and is separatedonly by the road from Mount Auburn, where the mould en-closes the remains of two of the poets children. ** of a mound in sweet Aubiu-n,Where a little headstone stood,How the flakes were folding it gently,As did robins the babes in the OLD TORY ROW xVND BEYOND. 323 James Eussell Lowell, after leaving college, became, in1840, a member of the Suffolk bar, and opened an office inBoston. In this he was true to the traditions of his grandsire filled the office of United States District Judgeby the appointment of Washington ; his father studied law firstand divinity afterwards ; while his uncle, the Boston Eebelof 1812, was also bred to the bar. From another uncle, FrancisCabot, the city of Lowell takes its name ; and those delightfulintellectual feasts, the Lowell lectures, arose from the bounty ofanother member of this family. Mr. Lowell soon relinquishedthe law, and his arguments are better known to the worldthrough the medium of his essays and verse than by the lawreports. In 1843 Lowell joined with Robert Carter in thepublication of the Pioneer, a magazine of brief broad humor and keen satire of the Biglow Papers,which appeared during the Mexican Wa
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