Tarry at home travels . Putnams Wolf Den. ernor, the freemen of the town in which Grantsgrandfather lived marched to the relief of Boston,and how his grandfather was among them. Thatis the sort of story which you can pick up anyday in any town, if you will go to the right per-son and if you care about the realities of 273 CONNECTICUT 275 Take Pomfret and Israel Putnam. Whatboy does not remember the wolfs den ? Pomfretis well known now by hundreds of peoplewho find it a pleasant summer home, as well asby other hundreds who live there. The cave inwhich Israel Patnam killed the wolf is
Tarry at home travels . Putnams Wolf Den. ernor, the freemen of the town in which Grantsgrandfather lived marched to the relief of Boston,and how his grandfather was among them. Thatis the sort of story which you can pick up anyday in any town, if you will go to the right per-son and if you care about the realities of 273 CONNECTICUT 275 Take Pomfret and Israel Putnam. Whatboy does not remember the wolfs den ? Pomfretis well known now by hundreds of peoplewho find it a pleasant summer home, as well asby other hundreds who live there. The cave inwhich Israel Patnam killed the wolf is still acave where a wolf could be killed if a man witha gun entered behind him. And who is there ofimaginative turn who will be much distressedif it prove that a hundred and fifty years havesomewhat exaggerated the perils of the position? Why one of the early Hales went to ConnecticutI do not know. All I do know is that in 1634people whose name begins with H — Haynes,Hopkins, and Hooker — went over and estab-lished Hartford; and now I know that if yougo to Glastonbury you will be glad to make avisit to the great peach plantation of HowardHale, whose peaches one or two hundred thousandof my readers have eaten since last June. In the Civil War we had in New England alittle company of men who were, so to speak, thelite
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