In Winter Quarters 



the work and in the goods and chattels 

 of the shining lights of English litera- 

 ture. Wealthy men may make a lot 

 worse use of their money. There is a 

 set of Shakespeare I would not mind 

 owning, but for a little matter of 

 $35,000, standing in front of it. But 

 when I asked what was on sale of 

 special interest relating to Thoreau and 

 Longfellow, there was a vacuum. I 

 might give the price of a Ford for 

 something that was dear to the hearts 

 of the authors of "Walden" and 

 "Evangeline." By the way, there is a 

 little burial-ground near the corner of 

 Spruce' and Ninth Streets in the city of 

 Penn, where it is said that the hero and 

 heroine of the poet's plaintive Acadian 

 love song lie side by side the site 

 being near that of the old alms-house 

 where Evangeline found and nursed 

 the long-lost Gabriel. They say that 

 Longfellow and Hawthorne were to- 

 gether when the original Evangeline 

 story was first brought to their notice, 

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