Tarry at home travels . quarrels with everybody else concerned, andretired to a plantation in the neighborhood,where his grave is still to be seen. The propertywas subsequently purchased by Mr. Riggs. Let ushope that before this Congress dissolves a propermemorial may be erected there to LEnfantsmemory. As for monument, he has a right tothe inscription, If you want a monument, lookaround. I made my first visit to Washington sixty-oneyears ago, as I have said. I spent the monthsof October and November there, in a little brickhouse occupied by my dear friend George JacobAbbot, the same who was a
Tarry at home travels . quarrels with everybody else concerned, andretired to a plantation in the neighborhood,where his grave is still to be seen. The propertywas subsequently purchased by Mr. Riggs. Let ushope that before this Congress dissolves a propermemorial may be erected there to LEnfantsmemory. As for monument, he has a right tothe inscription, If you want a monument, lookaround. I made my first visit to Washington sixty-oneyears ago, as I have said. I spent the monthsof October and November there, in a little brickhouse occupied by my dear friend George JacobAbbot, the same who was afterwards Under-Secretary of State and United States Consul atSheffield. George kept a school there, and heand I lived there together for two months, while WASHINGTON THEN AND NOW the ladies of his family were at the North. Inthe rear of the house there was a little stable, andin that stable we kept our cow. The housestood where Mr. Pollock afterwards built a palacewhich is there to-day, at the corner of I and %^^i= \Vashington from the White House, aboCt 1840. Seventeenth streets. It was opposite GeneralMacombs house. For our one servant we hada dear old saint named Josephine Cupid, whosecolor may be guessed at from her name. The busi-ness of the housekeeping began when Josephinemilked our cow in the morning, and then opened 380 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS the stable door and drove her out to came up by what would now be ConnecticutAvenue to an open common, ten times as largeas Boston Common is to-day, and there the cowspent her day with two or three hundred of herrace and sex, eating such grass and drinking suchwater as a grateful nation and a good God pro-vided. I doubt if the quantity of the food weighedheavily upon her stomach or her all events, before night the memories of thestable came back to her, and half an hour beforesunset she would be heard at the door. Thismeans that in 1844 land was not of value suffi-cient north and west of that corner t
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