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"That little creek that blocked the way of doughty Myles 

 Standish and his men, sending them inland on a detour." 

 See page 83 86 



" Here in a volley was the summing-up of the nature of the 

 heroes that had grown up, quite literally, in the Concord 

 soil." See page 93 92 



" Hither, too, came Hawthorne, to tramp the woods as did 



the others, and feel as did they, the divine afflatus " . . 98 



"The water from the old well cooled the throat of his 

 memory, and sparkled to the eye of it as he recalled the 

 dripping bucket" 114 



The Newburyport home of Joshua Coffin, the early friend 



and teacher of Whittier 126 



" Down river to the old chain bridge the rough rocks of the 

 New Hampshire hills come to get a taste of salt." See 

 page 129 1 30 



One angle of " The House of the Seven Gables " . . . . 150 

 " A Salem dock of the old sea-faring days" 150 



" The only sound was the crunch of soft snow and the splash 



of sap within the barrel." See page 171 172 



"But here is a sweetness that the tree almost bursts to 

 deliver" 178 



" The farmhouse where Bolles lived and loved the woods and 



all that therein lived with him." See page 197 . . . . 198 



Nightfall on Chocorua Lake 208 



