26 FARM ECHOES. 



kindled a fire, by which they slept. After a tedious 

 journey of many days they came one morning to the top 

 of an eminence presenting a prospect of a cultivated 

 country in which were a number of houses. 



" The Indian asked his companion whether he knew 

 the place. He replied eagerly that it was Li tch field. 

 His guide then, after reminding him that he had so many 

 years before relieved the wants of a famishing Indian, at 

 an inn in that town, subjoined, ' I that Indian ; now I 

 pay you, go home.' 



" Having said this he bade him adieu, and the man 

 joyfully returned to his home." 



The famous Law School of Judges Beeves and Gould, 

 established here by the former in 1784, and continued 

 by the latter until 1833, has given Litchfield an almost 

 world-wide reputation. Judge George C. Woodruff says : 

 "Young gentlemen from every section of our nation 

 were educated here, and not a few have been distinguished 

 as statesmen and jurists." He also refers in compli- 

 mentary terms to the Female Seminary opened here by 

 Miss Pierce, in 1792, and continued under her superin- 

 tendence for nearly forty years. 



Aaron Burr (brother-in-law of Judge Reeves) "became 

 intimately associated with Litchfield." 



Colonel Tallmadge, who had charge of Major Andre, 

 and to whom that unfortunate ''Adjutant-General to the 

 British Army" gave his open letter of confession, who 

 escorted that brave, but doomed man to the scaffold, and 

 who subsequently wrote : "I became so deeply attached 

 to Major Andre that I can remember no instance where 

 my affections were so fully absorbed ji} any man," made 



