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OLD A.QUEDUCT PATH 



\ favorite walk of Poe 



From a Photograph by Geo. E. Stonebridge 



gestion that some of the criticisms were unduly eulogistic, he 

 said. "If (a critic) were placed on the rack, or if one he 

 loved better than his own life were writhing there, I can con- 

 ceive of his forging a note against the Rank of Fame, in 

 favour of a would T be poet. . . . Would you blame a man 

 for not allowing his sick wife to die? " 



Occasionally Poe went to the city, by the Earlem railway, 

 which ran Half a dozen trains each way daily between Wil- 

 liamsbridge and the City Hall. .More often, no doubt, as she 

 says, it was Mrs. Clemm who went. " Winter after winter," 



