Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-26
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over, embraced the thin shoulders,
and kissed a half-resistant check.
"Just you stop worrying about me.
VA. you'll find out yet I'm not
such a wash-out as a daughter
Boy, but won't ! sleep tomorrow"
She tore the wrapp:ngs off the
bottle, rrammed IL into a shopping
bag. and was gone.
Mrs. Bagot stood for n time by the
window, looking out in a pitiful be-
of the elms. and from time 10 time
blowing her nose.
The Harmer place was "a spacious
corner lot with shrubbery, a drive
way and a huge square, white house,
with a columned porto. The house
dated from the early half OF the
nineteenth century. All the homes
built before eighteen-twenty or
thirty stood. Of course. close to the
road; only the later structures were
set back. amid the lawns and shade
trees. The Colonials in this region
gave little thought to the grounds
about their homes. In most Of the
earlier villages the dwellings were
crowded togeeher along the streets
tn something the manner Of minia-
ture cities. There may have been,
IN the earliest instances, the necessi-
~ Of banding together in fear on
Indian attacks; or perhaps the habit
came over the ocean with them from
English towns, where land was held
closely, and little Of il given over
for the uses of humble folk; or they
may merely have found convenience
in the close association Of neighbor-
hoods. Certainly there was much
less snow to be shoyeled during the
long winters. The original Harmer
house, rs Pearce Bagot could have
told you, stood ut the front OF the
lot. with a doorstep giving directly
on the path beside the road.
1t was burned by the British in
70. A second house arose on the
old foundation, only TO 20 the way
of the first, about 1885. The joseph
harmer of the day, who had achiev-
ed note even in Boston rs a lawyer,
and had served terms in the state
legislature and one or two in the
congress at Washington, was burned
in his bed that night. There was a
legend that the Goals from his pipe
set the fire as he dropped off to
sleep, propped against the pillows.
His son built the existing house,
removing the old foundation. razing
the barn, and creating what must
seemed to the simple villagers
Of his day a veritable park, as the
house must have appeared a man
sion. IL still had IN air OF stateli-
ness, II it had little in the way of
charm. The huge doric columns
were a full two stories in height.
The windows were tall. with large
panes. IL still suggested modest
wealth; and more strongly. power.
As If the 1885 Joseph meant the
to bear in mind that there was
vigor and weight in the Harmer
STOCK. he must have felt and loved
mat power ms intensely as did (ev-
eryoody quietly knew the Joe Of
our own times. There were legends
"a a measure Of moral hardness III
me harmers. Even Of a
II matters Of money and property.
fearce Bagot once unearthed. from
the dustier shelves of the public IL
Drary, an account of a lawsuit
against the Revolutionary Joseph.
based on the ground that he and his
father before him had made a pra--
tee Of stealing land, inch by inch.
from their adjoining neighbors. nv
the simple device Of moving tho
boundary fences over a little way
each tile that repairs were neces-
sary. The Revolutionary Joseph lost
n a action. But in a community IN
industry and thrift were OUT
standing virtues and a dour cannv
sort Of instinct for getting and hold
ing real property ran deem in the
blood, that would hardly be held
the family. In old AckIand a
man was supposed to be able to look
out for himself.
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