2O4 CALVIN I 



fear, so far as I know : he had a mortal and a 

 reasonable terror of plumbers. He would never 

 stay in the house when they were here. No 

 coaxing could quiet him. Of course he didn't 

 share our fear about their charges, but he must 

 have had some dreadful experience with them 

 in that portion of his life which is unknown to 

 us. A plumber was to him the devil, and I have 

 no doubt that, in his scheme, plumbers were fore- 

 ordained to do him mischief. 



In speaking of his worth, it has never occurred 

 to me to estimate Calvin by the worldly stand- 

 ard. I know that it is customary now, when 

 any one dies, to ask how much he was worth, 

 and that no obituary in the newspapers is con- 

 sidered complete without such an estimate. The 

 plumbers in our house were one day overheard 

 to say that, "They say that she says that he says 

 that he would n't take a hundred dollars for him." 

 It is unnecessary to say that I never made such 



