. Plucky boys. but as indicatingthe turn my mind was taking then, before it hadbeen shaped at all by habits of discipline, thought,or systematic study. By moving into the neighborhood of a seat oflearning, he said, the Philomathic seeds of hisnature were stirred. That word became the nameof a little club of three, which he was the means offorming. One of the number was a young farmer,the other a village boy going to school when therewas one, going fishing, working out haying; butall had certain tastes in common, and they agreedto have a club and meet once a week for socialintercourse and menta
. Plucky boys. but as indicatingthe turn my mind was taking then, before it hadbeen shaped at all by habits of discipline, thought,or systematic study. By moving into the neighborhood of a seat oflearning, he said, the Philomathic seeds of hisnature were stirred. That word became the nameof a little club of three, which he was the means offorming. One of the number was a young farmer,the other a village boy going to school when therewas one, going fishing, working out haying; butall had certain tastes in common, and they agreedto have a club and meet once a week for socialintercourse and mental improvement, to talk overthings they all liked, or discuss those they did notagree about. They met in a room over the villagestore; and, at first, had not the least idea of whatwould grow out of their coming together. They all agreed, however, in the desire to belearning, and began at once to have original young antiquarian had brought with him fromVermont his boyish collection of relics and spec-. A YOUNG ANTIQUARIAN. 289 imens, and before long a cabinet of curiosities,starting from this, was among their father of the farmer member finished off aroom for them in the attic of his house on BeechHill, fitting it up with cupboards and shelves,and they moved their things in, and dedicated it,with appropriate ceremonies, To the use of thePhilomathic Club forever. But the house event-ually passed into other hands, and twelve yearsfrom the time of the dedication, the great changeof name to the New Hampshire State AntiquarianSociety took place, by which the accumulation ofarticles was removed to the village where theynow are, somewhat remote from the great activitiesof the world, and bearing one of the pretty Indiannames which Whittier has sung in his legendaryverse, Contoocook. But there is a bit of the past life of the boywhich must come in here. He had had from hischildhood such a regard for old customs andthings, that as he went about, as boys do, wherea
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