. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. nd was afair sample of what was written for children in those days. I hadnot yet learned to read, and he told me that when I could read thefiist page,* the book should be mine. So I struggled bravely formany weeks and perhaps months, until at last I earned its posses-sion. In some unexplaiuahle way I have preserved this (juaintlittle volume, and as I write these lines it is lying before me withmy name written in it many times in every possible fashion ofboyish hand-writing. * This is th
. Delaware County, New York; history of the century, 1797-1897; centennial celebration, June 9 and 10, 1897. nd was afair sample of what was written for children in those days. I hadnot yet learned to read, and he told me that when I could read thefiist page,* the book should be mine. So I struggled bravely formany weeks and perhaps months, until at last I earned its posses-sion. In some unexplaiuahle way I have preserved this (juaintlittle volume, and as I write these lines it is lying before me withmy name written in it many times in every possible fashion ofboyish hand-writing. * This is the first page: ? lu the liistory of man, we contemplate willi par-ticular satisfaction those legislators, heroes and philosophers, whose ,valor and virtue have contributed to the happiness of the human species. Wetrace the luminous progress of those excellent beings with sweet emulation is roused, while we behold them steadily pursue the path ofrectitude in defiance of every obstruction. We rejoice that we are of the samespecies, and thus self-love becomes the handmaid of On tl^e TrerripersKill. Or) ttie Ouleout. Siraders LaKe. Near AVargareiville riDsiciAXs. ;i51 Tbe nocxl old doctor ;it bist becrtiiip iufiriii and uualdf to visitthe fjiiuilics who iicnhMl liis assistance. It was a coiiiinou sayiugiiinoli^ the circle of liis practice that: Theres uae j^iiid a heiusick uoo, siu Doctor Scott caiiua come tae see us. \l hist he diedamidst the iiversal sorrow of tlie litth Scotch neighborhoodwhich he had so faithfully served,—a sorrow which could only hecompared to that which pervaded the parish of Drunitochty whenDr. McClure died and was liuried, as lau ^faclaren has described itiu the Bouuy Briar Bush. Fortuuately a youu<^ man had been in course of training to takeDr. Scoffs place. He was a son of one of the original Scotch set-tlers of the ueighliorhood. He had studied medicine with Fitcli in Delhi and had lieen graduated by
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