CHAPTER IV 



FURTHER WORK IN THE KANSAS 

 CHALK, 1877 



SPENT the winter of 1876-77 with Pro- 

 fessor Cope, first at Haddonfield, then 

 at his new home on Pine Street, in Phil- 

 adelphia. 



At Haddonfield the commodious loft of a large, 

 old-fashioned barn was fitted up as a workshop, and 

 I had also a bed here. I boarded with a Mr. Geis- 

 mar, Professor Cope's preparator, but I had a stand- 

 ing invitation to eat dinner every Sunday with the 

 Professor and his wife and daughter, a lovely child 

 of twelve summers. 



I shall never forget those Sunday dinners. The 

 food was plain, but daintily cooked, and the Pro- 

 fessor's conversation was a feast in itself. He had 

 a wonderful power of putting professional matters 

 from his mind when he left his study, and coming 

 out ready to enter into any kind of merrymaking. 

 He used to sit with sparkling eyes, telling story after 

 story, while we laughed at his sallies until we could 

 laugh no more. 



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