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young people eloped, and were married at Mr. Tar- 

 bell's house. Mrs. Rockwell's father, becoming in- 

 volved, had been obliged to raise money by mort- 

 gaging his farm. Some time after Rockwell took 

 occasion to visit the old gentleman, but was received 

 very coldly, saying "he wanted nothing of him," etc. 

 Coolly taking a roll of bills from his pocket, and 

 handing the same to his father-in-law, Mr. Rockwell 

 said, " Pay off the mortgage on your place, and take 

 things easy now, for we have plenty of the ' stuff.' " 

 He also took with him into business two of his wife's 

 brothers, making the whole family rich. They were 

 afterwards all lost in the Pacific Ocean by the sink- 

 ing of the steamer Pacific, in November, 1875. 



While at Mr. Tarbell's my time was very pleasantly 

 and profitably spent, the landlord refusing to take 

 one cent for the trouble I had made him. Going 

 from there over the mountain roads — while in the 

 wagon driving Topsy without bits or lines — my father, 

 who was on the seat beside me, suddenly fell over 

 with heart disease. Before I could say a word, the 

 horse stopped short and would not move until, with 

 considerable trouble, we managed to get my father 

 out and on the ground, where he recovered. 



MY FIRST TALL HAT. 



During my stay at Montrose I concluded to buy me 

 a tall hat. It was the first one I ever possessed. Up 

 to that time I had always worn a common wool-cloth 

 cap and standing collar, and never had worn an over- 

 coat previous to 1880. I also wore side whiskers, 

 and sported a silver watch attached to a long bamboo 

 chain. This hat required more of an outlay in wet- 

 ting it thoroughly than the original cost. It afforded 

 plenty of fun to my friends, if not to myself; at any 



