6 THE STORY OF A BIRD LOVER 



both sides, the front and entrance of the house 

 being away from the river. 



The ground floor of the house is divided by a 

 hall some eighteen feet wide and perhaps forty- 

 five feet long. The office that my grandfather 

 used for his professional work is just to the right 

 as one enters the front door, and there is also a 

 side entrance to this office. His law and reference 

 books are piled on the shelves to-day much as he 

 left them. Very different from similar books of 

 the present time, they are small, and thick in pro- 

 portion, and their leather covers are black with 

 age. A door at the other end of the hall, opposite 

 the entrance, leads to a wide piazza overlooking 

 the river. 



On the same side of the hall with the office is 

 a large parlor, and on the east wall in this parlor 

 hangs my great-grandfather's commission as a 

 member of the Society of the Cincinnati. It seems 

 of sufficient interest to quote here verbatim : — 



BE IT KNOWN that Moscs Scott, Surgeon General, New Jersey, 

 and Director-General of the Medical Department United States, 

 is a member of the Cincinnati, instituted by the officers of the 

 American Army at the period of Dissolution, as well to com- 

 memorate the great events which gave Independence to North 

 America, as for the laudable purpose of inculcating the Duty of 

 laying down in Peace, Arms assumed for public Defence, and 

 of uniting in Acts of brotherly Affection, and Bonds of perpetual 

 Friendship, the members constituting the Same. 



IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the President of said Society, here- 



