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planted to the New World. So far from discovering certain alleged 

 modifications, he recalled corresponding types of faces among 

 his old friends in Kentucky and Virginia, and laughingly directed 

 his companion's attention to the strong likeness between the 

 Duke of Argyle and a respected old carpenter in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. Furthermore, while talking to some of these 

 men he noticed a similarity of phrasing ; also the use of certain 

 words peculiar to the Southern section of his own country. 

 As regards public speaking, he was struck with the fact that the 

 young men who had profited by the recently organized unions 

 for debate delivered themselves more freely and to the point 

 than the older ones, who seemed to have made a cult of a hesi- 

 tating and inconclusive utterance. Mr. Shaler himself was 

 greatly applauded whenever he spoke in public, his success at 

 times bringing its reward, as will be seen from the following 

 incident. 



One morning while wandering over Ely Cathedral, "the 

 most glorious shrine in Christendom," he was approached by a 

 gentleman who introduced himself as the Dean. " I heard you 

 speak," he said, "a few evenings ago at Cambridge and was 

 so much impressed by your clearness of thought and statement 

 that, recognizing you here, I was prompted to seek your ac- 

 quaintance; and now," he added, "will you permit me to be 

 your guide." And in and out of vault, choir, crypt, and Lady 

 chapel, and down the transepts and great aisles, into the 

 " Galilee," or western porch, he led the travellers, indicating here 

 and there the work of the centuries as recorded in early Norman, 

 Decorated, and Perpendicular Gothic architecture; rolling off all 

 the while the names of founders, builders, and restorers, from 

 St. Etheldreda to Alan de Walsingham and Sir Gilbert Scott. 

 At last, when all had been seen that the learned doctor could 

 show, he wound up by inviting the strangers to come home with 

 him to luncheon. The thirteenth-century Guesten Hall of the 

 old Abbey, which at one time had been a camp of refuge for 

 Hereward, had been converted into a deanery; and here, at 



