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The Laird of Norlaw. A Scottish Story. By the Author of "Margaret Maitland," etc. New York. Harder & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 390. $1.00. Life of John H.W. Hawkins. Compiled by his Son, Rev. William George Hawkins, A.M. Boston. J.P. Jewett & Co. 12mo. pp. 443. $1.00. European Life, Legend, and Landscape. By an Artist. Philadelphia. James Challen & Son. 12mo. pp. 154. 75 cts. Christian Morals.
It was three years from the date of the receivership before the Erie property was taken out of the hands of the courts. In April, 1878, a new company, the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, took over the property; Jewett was elected its president, and a new chapter in the history of the property began.
At the head of Mauger's Island were the lots of Matthew Wason, Samuel Whitney and Samuel Tapley. Between Mauger's Island and Middle Island the lots were those of Jeremiah Burpee, Jonathan Burpee, Jacob Barker, Daniel Jewett, Ezekiel Saunders, Humphrey Pickard, Moses Pickard, Jacob Barker, jr., Isaac Stickney and Jonathan Smith.
I was half blind with one of the headaches that tormented me in those days, and I turned my sick eyes from the sign, "J. P. Jewett & Co., Publishers," which held me fascinated, and went home without at least having my much-dreamed-of version of Lazarillo refused. I am quite at a loss to know why my reading had this direction or that in those days.
Leverett, as she was piling up the cups and saucers, and paused to smile at the little stranger. "There were some storms, and I was afraid then. It made me think of papa. But there was a good deal of sunshine. And I was quite ill at first, but the captain was very nice, and Mrs. Jewett had two little girls, so after a while we played together.
He was one of those who would have given a hundred lives rather than have his country destroyed a genuine patriot and a noble man. With the Washtenaw contingent of troop "F" came Aaron C. Jewett, of Ann Arbor. Jewett was a leading spirit in University circles. His parents were wealthy, he an only son to whom nothing was denied that a doting father could supply.
Jewett, the hotel proprietor, walked with him to the X National Bank, took him into the bank parlor, and introduced him to the president, intimating that he would probably wish to do some business with the bank, and assuring Tandy that the young man was "as square as they make 'em."
Other names that suggest themselves in a list that might be indefinitely extended are those of Miss Jewett, Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps Ward, Mr. Richard Harding Davis, Mr. T.B. Aldrich, Mr. Thos. Owen Wister, Mr. Hamlin Garland, Mr. H.C. Bunner.
He arose and piteously put his hand on Jewett's shoulder, and, pointing to the food offered him, he said, "Eat." "Eat it yourself," replied Mr. Jewett. "Hall and Wood are not there." "You can not see them," he answered; "I can. I know that you can not see them." "What do you do in your own country in such cases as this?" asked Maquina. "We confine the person and whip him," said Jewett.
His college chum said to him, as they chatted together for the last time before leaving school, that it would be grewsomely lonely to sit in a dimly lighted flag-station and have that inanimate machine tick off its talk to him in the sable hush of night; but Jewett was ambitious.
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