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"Has he?" said Polly Ann, with brave indifference. "He met a gal on the trail a blazin' fine gal," said Chauncey Dike. "She was goin' to Kaintuckee. And Tom he 'lowed he'd go 'long." Polly Ann laughed, and fingered the withered pieces of skin at Chauncey's girdle. "Did Tom give you them sculps?" she asked innocently. Chauncey drew up stiffly. "Who? Tom McChesney?
He has been always familiar with it, always more or less a resident of the village. Born in Boston upon the spot where the Chauncey Place Church now stands, part of his youth was passed in the Old Manse, which was built by his grandfather and in which his father was born; and there he wrote Nature.
Emerson's letter in reply is beautiful in itself, and has the added interest attaching now to every word of his: CONCORD, May 23, 1836, MY DEAR SIR, I received the last week your kind letter, and the copy of your affectionate notice of Charles A Chauncey Place.
She slept till Alice was obliged to waken her the next morning; and then got up with her head in a charming confusion of, pleasures past and pleasures to come things known and unknown, to be made for everybody's New Year presents linen collars and painted needlebooks; and no sooner was breakfast over than she was showing and explaining to Ellen Chauncey a particularly splendid and mysterious way of embroidering the edges of needlebook leaves.
And the fact is, she was a corpse within six months from that day. Chauncey and me, we used to hear noises, but old houses are full of noises. We never thought much about it; only, I must say I never had any use for that part of the house. Chauncey keeps his seeds and tools in the lower room, and some of the winter vegetables, and we store the parlor stove in there in summer."
Soon after the first Church was built, to which we shall have occasion to refer hereafter. Racine District was created in 1847, and Rev. Chauncey Hobart was appointed the first Presiding Elder. Dr. Hobart entered the Illinois Conference in 1836, the Conference then including Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
"I don't know, nor care," said Margaret. "Somebody she picked up somewhere." "It was Mr. George Marshman!" "It wasn't." "Uncle George!" exclaimed Ellen Chauncey, running up to the group her cousin had quitted; "my uncle George? Do you know uncle George, Ellen?" "Very much I mean yes," said Ellen. Ellen Chauncey was delighted. So was Ellen Montgomery.
Chauncey, preached the first time on the birthday that completed his twenty-fourth year, probably considering that as the day of a second nativity, by which he entered on a new period of existence. In about three years he succeeded Dr.
"I should not dare go in my own kitchen at this time of day. There are no women nowadays who know how to work in the way ladies used to work. If I could have such a housekeeper as you, Cerissa." Cerissa flushed and bridled. "What would Chauncey do!" "I don't expect you to be my housekeeper," Mrs. Bogardus smiled. "But I envy Chauncey." "She has come to ask a favor," thought Cerissa.
You had better go on with your questions. You have had eight already. If you don't look out, you won't catch me. Come!" "Did he get the wife that he went after?" asked Ellen Chauncey. "He was never married that I know of," said Gilbert. "What was the reason he failed?" said Isabel. "He did not fail." "Did he bring home his wife then? You said he wasn't married."
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