The Pine-tree coast . THE ONE-HOSS SHAY. 162 THE PINE-TREE COAST. street, within the shadow of its aspiring neighbors, as if conscious that it didnot belong to this new and crowding generation. General Peleg Wadsworth. a soldier of the Revolution, whose escape fromCastine was as exciting an adventure as anything to be found in romance,began this house in 1785. It had but two stories when completed, but Stephen. PUBLIC LIBRARY. PORTLAND. Longfellow, father of the poet, who married Zilpah, the generals daughter,enlarged it by the addition of another story, when the general moved out andhe moved
The Pine-tree coast . THE ONE-HOSS SHAY. 162 THE PINE-TREE COAST. street, within the shadow of its aspiring neighbors, as if conscious that it didnot belong to this new and crowding generation. General Peleg Wadsworth. a soldier of the Revolution, whose escape fromCastine was as exciting an adventure as anything to be found in romance,began this house in 1785. It had but two stories when completed, but Stephen. PUBLIC LIBRARY. PORTLAND. Longfellow, father of the poet, who married Zilpah, the generals daughter,enlarged it by the addition of another story, when the general moved out andhe moved in. bringing with him the boy Henry Wadsworth, who had thus goodRevolutionary blood in his veins, and was proud of it, too. Mr. Longfellow once described to me his experience of travel between Port-land and Boston, going back to the time when the old-fashioned stage-coach was A DAY IN PORTLAND. 163 the only means of conveyance between the two citiey by land. By startin- atthree oclock in the morning, one might reach Boston late at night on th(? sameday. But this was too fast for ordinary travellers, who preferred taking theaccommodation, which made the trip in two days. In winter it was noholiday journey, the less so as the sides of the alleged stage were only curtainsof common booking, buttoned down to keep the weather out. The poet said,with a shivtM- that the recollection called up, tluit lie •usua
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