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flea of Catesby can be found as far north as 

 Carolina. 



It was about this time (1771) that an interest- 

 ing lad who had been educated in Scotland came 

 to him as pupil. This was William Charles 

 Wells, afterwards to become known for his 

 papers on The Formation of Dew and An Essay 

 upon Single Vision 'with Two Eyes. Wells had 

 two trials in early life: one, an arbitrary father; 

 the other, our friend Garden. Wells' father, 

 fearing the lad should become tainted with dis- 

 loyalty after the Peace of 1763, compelled him to 

 wear Highland dress, hoping to make him re- 

 member he was a Scotsman. Wells says bitterly, 

 speaking of his boy companions, " The persecu- 

 tion I hence suffered produced this effect com- 

 pletely." He tells also that " Dr. Garden had 

 been accustomed to apprentices of a very different 

 character [from himself] and frequently sus- 

 pected me of falsehood and once attempted to 

 strike me with his hand. From this time I be- 

 came in my conduct to him reserved and indig- 

 nant .... and betook myself seriously to study." 

 The somewhat choleric Garden and the " re- 

 served and indignant ' ' Wells must have made the 

 Charleston home an uncomfortable one during 

 the three years' apprenticeship! 



Thacher, who loves to disguise weaknesses in 

 wordy dressing, and admits only that a doctor 



