Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-25

the first time, Went about telling every
body that not more than ten men in
Boston could write anything better.
NO doubt he thought So said she,
land also that he was himself one of
those ten That was just like her,"
said her father-in-law Two years
she lived with me-
Discovering that my medal had been
treasure trove in Jerusalem he asked
whether l had been farther east than
that. Then followed questions about
Babies, Damascus, and my voyage into
the heart of China. What most moved
his mirth was the tale he drew from
me Of adventures in and on the pyra
mid. Fatch-pur Sikri,-the Pompeii Of
the Greatest Mogul, he had never
heard Of, and desired to know how to
spell the name. He thought my world
circling must have been long ago and
in a party, but was not content till he
discovered that my return had been
within three years, and that 1 had
been a lone pilgrim as being almost
an octogenarian myself, l felt unable
to take care of more than one. At
last he said: You make me sorry
have travelled so little. What store
of visual memories | would have laid
up, had l gone up and down the earth
images | now in mine age long for
and lack.
At some point in our Capitalization
we touched on longevity and l spoke
of the way Roman wits accounted fol
! Cato, the Censor's living so long
They said he was so censorious all
through that Pluto and his wife de
clared they would never tolerate such
| a snarling scur-face about their in
fernal premises. Hence Mercury was
afraid to bring Cato down. This
classic bon-mot CHANGED to be new tC
my witty entertainer, and you will no.
wonder he said: ''Where did you fine
! that?"
Facing the study-dOor, l observed
above it on the right the Hfe-size pOr
| trait Of Il girl some twelve years old
Mr.. Holmes pointed up to it anC
asked, DO you know who that isl
| When | confessed that l did nOt,-ht
said after a little, With d chucllle
why that is Dorothy O. The ligh
was then dim and the distance consid
cradle, yet | felt mortified at my stu
pidity. IF you go near it," he con
tinued, you will perceive severa
holes where the picture was stabbed
by some Britisher during the siege o
Boston" The lines half came bacl
to me
Hold up the canvas full in view.
Look, there's rent the light shines
through;
That was a redcoat's rapier thrust
/ Dr. Holmes then turned to the onl.
other painting in the room, high OF
the left of the door, saying, DO yol
know who that is?' My answer wa
II know it is not Tutor Flynt
we had already spoken; you ar
right said he, that is DR.. Cooper
the ideal minister of my ancestors
Many of his class We're tories-he wa
patriot" My next words were: s.
failed to recognize Dorothy Q. but
know the house where she was borl
in 1903 just a century before you
birth-year, and where she lived whel
that portrait was made. That hous
was occupied for Il genera ton by
cousin of mine, and hence 1T becam
my seaside home for thirty year
whenever | came on from the west
1t was the oldest and most unalteret
specimen of aristocratic colonial New
England with which 1 have ever beer
familiar" This remark about TIN
homestead or birth-right of four Ed
mund Quincys in an unbroken line
Weakened vivacity in the listene
while | feared [ was saying too much
He piled me with questions upon Ques
ton about that mansion,-above al
about the north wing-added for hous
ing Tutor Flynt, uncle of Dorothy Q
and a Harvard tutor in 1899 and on
ward for fifty-five years. These Flyn
rooms had been my quarters by "a!
and by night so i knew somethin:
about them. Judge of my surpris,
when DR.. Holmes said: ''This is in
deed odd. That ancient and hOnora bl,
so long | have never entered. and, Lo
you who live out west l know not how
far come and tell me about things N!
own eyes ought to have beheld many
a time. The truth is that whenever
L have visited Quincy the Adamse:
have kept me as it We're bottled UP
How far is the birth-hOuse Of Dor
Othy from the Adams dwelling?
/ When told it was no more than half 3
mile his yeXatiOn redoubled. Then he
said, Il have myself one relic of Tutor
Flynt; namely, his silver teapot, anC
l drink my own tea out of it every
day. 1t bears his coat of arms which
was three fiints'
! When 1 returned to my cousins ]
found that on the eve of leaving the
Quincy house in 1889 he had secured
series of photographs thirty OF
: notwithstanding that time-honored
edifice outside and in, with all its pc,
culiarities and surroundings. Inform
ing Mr.. Holmes of this discovery
was at once answered through his sec
rotary who wrote: Or Holmes is at
home almost every afternoon between
three and five o'clock, and will be
happy to see you whenever you can
come"
! On my second call DR.. Holmes was
by no means so we'll as before. He
said, ''When my waiting-maid brought
up your card she was not inclined 10