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river, than one’s own efforts could attain. There 
is a certain governor, of whom I personally can 
remember only that he found the Fresh Pond 
heronry, which I vainly sought ; and in memory 
the august sheriff of a neighboring county still 
skates in victorious pursuit of me, — fit emblem 
of swift-footed justice !—-on the black ice of 
the same once lovely lake. My imagination 
crowns the Cambridge poet, and the Cambridge 
sculptor, not with their later laurels, but with 
the willows out of which they taught me to 
carve whistles, shriller than any trump of fame, 
in the happy days when Mount Auburn was 
Sweet Auburn still. 
Luckily, boy-nature is too strong for theory. 
And truth demands the admission, that physi- 
cal education is not so entirely neglected among 
us as the scarcity of popular games would in- 
dicate. It is very possible that this last fact 
proceeds partly from the greater freedom of 
field-sports in this country. There are few 
New England boys who do not become familiar 
with the rod or gun in childhood. Perhaps, in. 
the mother country, the monopoly of land in- 
terferes with this, and thus game laws, bya sort 
of spontaneous pun, tend to introduce games. 
But, so far as there is a deficiency in these 
respects among us, this generation must not 
shrink from the responsibility. It is unfair to 
