130 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



I do not know whether serving two masters is another case 

 of God and Mammon, but anyway I commend to your care 

 Professor Brooks. Deal gently with him — and hold the 

 fort." (Professor Brooks had been appointed president 

 fro tempore.) 



But at last, to use his own expression, he was "let loose 

 on Florida"; or, as he states it in another place: "I am to 

 flee to the mountains of Hepsidam." He felt great confi- 

 dence that the climate would have an invigorating influ- 

 ence, and said that it was the only place that did him any 

 good before. He left Amherst in company with his wife, 

 on March 6, and sailed from New York the next day for 

 Jacksonville on the way to Fort Pierce. They arrived at 

 Jacksonville Saturday morning, March 11, spent the day 

 in the city, and went on to Fort Pierce in the evening, 

 arriving there about 8 o'clock. 



The journey was very tedious and irritating. He writes 

 March 17: "We have fairly comfortable quarters at this 

 hotel. I am afraid your good wife would have something 

 to say about the beds, — the same as mine does, — but 

 that is one of the things that has to be endured. As we sit 

 in our room, in the second story, the oleanders in the garden 

 are flush with the windows — there are palmetto, rubber 

 and lemon trees, and the garden slopes down to the water, 

 where are colonized something like a hundred pelicans, and 

 it is our great amusement to watch them dive and catch 

 the fish, which they lay neatly away in their pouches for 

 future reference. I am sorry to say that my legs began 

 swelling again as soon as I left home, so that I am confined 

 quite severely to the house. The weather to-day is all that 

 one could ask and I shall hope now to improve." 



