an actual by a rare accident which seemed to have been sent on purpose by his good genius for on the very evening when this catastrophe was to have been brought about he fell into a and then into a row and then into a deep sleep from which he awoke the next morning to find that he had not only forgotten his appointment but also his character as a man of sober the lady s ned hazard pride took alarm at the occurrence and ned very solemnly to to now and then the affairs of this bustling little community were with a single combat which was always regarded as a highly interesting incident and the questions of the were in held at midnight in which i learn the lore displayed by ned hazard was a matter of college renown engrossed thus like the states of the dark ages in the cares of love war and politics it is not to be wondered at that the arts and should have fallen into some this period of ned s hfe indeed resembled those times when fought for lady love � and swore by their saints � and frightened learning into the nests of the still however there was a generous love of fame lurking in his constitution which notwithstanding all the that his success showed itself in occasional fits of close and useful study it pains me to say that hazard s days of were but my as a me to even to the of my friend that before his course had run to its destined end he made of his fortunes and received from the faculty a that an from hall � the same being conferred in consideration of counsel afforded as a friend true and to a worthy who had answered the defiance of a gentleman of honor to a at utterance thus of his college ned crept quietly back to swallow bam where his return astounded the of the neighborhood for awhile he took to study like a � though i have heard that it did not last long � and in the lonely pursuits of this period he that secret love hazard of and picturesque incident that took him upon his celebrated expedition round the horn but it in no degree conquered his temper his mind is still a fairy land inhabited by pleasant and conceited images winged laughing and mellow of he is regarded in the family as the next heir to swallow bam but the of his sister and soon afterwards the of his ther disclosed the condition of the to which he had before been a stranger he has still however a comfortable and frank by arrangement taken possession of the inheritance together with the ned has ample liberty to pursue his own in regard to his future occupation in life frank holds the estate for the present under an honorable pledge to relieve it of its burdens by a gradual course of which he seems to be in a fair way of so that ned may be said still to have a profitable in the domain but he has grown in some degree necessary to and has therefore of late fixed his residence almost entirely at swallow bam chapter vi pursuits of a philosopher from the house at swallow barn there is to be seen at no great distance a of trees and in the midst of these an humble building is which seems to court the shade in which it is modestly it is an old structure built of logs its figure is a with a roof rising from all sides to a point and surmounted by a wooden which somewhat a fish and somewhat a fowl this little edifice is a rustic shrine devoted to and here the sacred rites of the are daily by some dozen and not above three feet high both in and this is one of the many temples that the surface of our republican empire where liberty receives her purest worship and where though in humble and lowly guise she secretly breathes her strength into the heart and of the nation here the is planted that through generations and produces its hundred fold at this altar the spark is kindled that its fire from breast to breast like the vast that light up and the of the west pursuits op a philosopher the school house has been an to swallow barn r since the infancy of the last generation frank has in his time extended its usefulness by opening it to the accommodation of his neighbors so that it is now a theatre whereon a of players are wont to the comic which belong to the first process of a troop of these little are seen every morning their way across the fields armed with tin in which are deposited their apple or other store for the day and which same are generally used at the decline of the day as drums or to their homeward march or as of the spoil from bushes against which these are prone to carry on a war throughout the day a continual is heard from this quarter even to the porch of the mansion house hazard and myself occasionally make them a visit and it is amusing to observe how as we approach the murmur becomes more distinct until reaching the door we find the whole swarm running over their long tough in a high concert pitch with their elbows upon the their hands covering ears and their naked heels beating time against the benches � as if every believed that a was a piece of discord invented to torment all ears but his own and high above this din the master s note is sounded in a key like the occasional touch of the horn in an this little empire is under the dominion of parson he is a plump rosy old gentleman rather short and thick set 