. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . Nantucket years from its marvelous inception, themill had grown so old and infirm that its owners con-cluded to sell it for lumber if need be. A meetingwas called, and Jared Gardner, the man who wassupposed to be wisest in mills of any on the island,was invited to attend, and succinctly asked by Syl-vanus Macy— Jared, what will thee give for the mill withoutthe stones ? Not one penny, Sylvanus, replied Jared as suc-cinctly ; and the other— What will thee give for it as it stands, Jare
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . Nantucket years from its marvelous inception, themill had grown so old and infirm that its owners con-cluded to sell it for lumber if need be. A meetingwas called, and Jared Gardner, the man who wassupposed to be wisest in mills of any on the island,was invited to attend, and succinctly asked by Syl-vanus Macy— Jared, what will thee give for the mill withoutthe stones ? Not one penny, Sylvanus, replied Jared as suc-cinctly ; and the other— What will thee give for it as it stands, Jared ? I dont feel to want it at any price, friend,replied Jared indifferently. The mill-owners consulted, and presently returnedto the charge with— Jared, thee must make us an offer. Well, then, twenty dollars for firewood, Syl-vanus. The offer was accepted immediately; the shrewdJared did not burn his mill, even to roast a sucklingpig; but repaired and used it to his own and hisneighbors advantagCj until the day of his death. LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY. PIONEER FEMALE POET OF ^RS. SIGOURNEY, was among the first, and is the most vohiminousof all the early female poets of America. In fact she has been, upto this date, one of the most prolific of all the women writers of ourcountry, having published fifty-six volumes of poetry and prose, thefirst appearing in 1815, and the last in I860, fifty-eight years most successful efforts are her occasional poems, which aboundin passages of earnest, well expressed thought, and exhibit in their graver moodscharacteristics of a mind trained by exercise in self-knowledge and writings possess energy and variety, while her wide and earnest sympathy withall topics of friendship and philanthropy was always at the service of those Edward H. Everett in a review of Mrs. Sigourneys works declared : Theyexpress with great purity and evident sincerity the tender affections which are sonatural to the fe
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