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branch of the Hoosac — still are smoking, as when 

 Hawthorne and Mr. Leach visited them in 1838. The 

 tale of Ethan Brand was suggested by the legend of an 

 insane creature who threw himself in at the open gate 

 of the burning kiln. Their open iron doors in the 

 mountain-side at night seem like yawning mouths of 

 Tartarus. Hawthorne met here also his "Bertram," 

 who figures in the story; while '* the boy Joe," son of 

 ''Bertram, the lime-burner," was a bar-room lad ob- 

 served at the * ' Whig Tavern ' ' in North Adams. Daniel 

 Haines, then living in a desolate hut in ** Willow Dell," 

 was formerly nicknamed in the village as ** Black 

 Hawk," and is described in Ethaii Brand as " Lawyer 

 Giles," the ** elderly ragmuffin," who — with the rest 

 of the lazy regiment from the town tavern — came in 

 response to the summons of "boy Joe" to see poor 

 Brand returned from his long " search after the Un- 

 pardonable Sin." The title of this story was the 

 name of one of the prose master's Salem acquaintances. 

 Among other characters which Hawthorne drew from 

 this region, were the "seven doctors of the place." 

 In the * * Whig Tavern boarder ' ' Hawthorne saw 

 and delineated himself. He describes the Saddleback 

 Mountain and Greylock in all their different phases, — 

 when enshrouded with dark masses of storm clouds 

 and when : ' ' Old Greylock was glorified with a golden 

 cloud upon his head. Scattered likewise over the 

 breasts of the surrounding mountains, there were 

 heaps of hoary mist, in fantastic shapes, some of them 

 far down into the valley, others high up toward the 



