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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 129 130 



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 



