time more dangerous than football. Q Not all the things 

 produced by Isaac about this time were failures. For 

 instance, among other things he made a table, a chair 

 and a cupboard for a young woman who was a fellow- 

 boarder at the apothecary's. The excellence of young 

 Newton's work was shown in that the articles just 

 mentioned outlasted both the owner and maker. 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



UCH of the reminiscence concerning the 

 Grantham days of Sir Isaac Newton comes 

 to us from the fortunate owner of that his- 

 toric table, chair and cupboard. This was 

 Mary Story, afterward Mrs. Vincent. Miss 

 Story was the same age as Isaac. She was 

 eighteen when the furniture was made roycroftie she 

 was a young lady, grown, and wore a dress with a 

 train; moreover, she had been to London and had been 

 courted by a widower, while Isaac Newton was only 

 a lad in round-abouts. 



Age counts for little it is experience and temperament 

 that weigh in the scale. Isaac was only a little boy, 

 and Mary Story treated him like one. And here seems 

 a good place to quote Dr. Charcot who said, " In ar- 

 ranging the formula for a great man, make sure you de- 

 lay adolescence rare-ripes rot early." 

 Isaac and Mary became very good chums, and used 

 to ramble the woods together hand in hand, in a way 

 that must have frightened them both had they been on 

 the same psychic plane. Isaac had about the same re- 



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