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The interest now taken in questions of heredity and in the study of the growing mind of the child may excuse a word about my ancestry and early training. Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. The first Simon Newcomb, from whom I am of the sixth generation, was born in Massachusetts or Maine about 1666, and died at Lebanon, Conn., in 1745.
Dick and Warner stood by without a word, but Dick cast an appealing look at Colonel Newcomb. "Yes, I know," said the Colonel, who caught the glance. "This is your state, and you wish to go with Major Hertford. You are to do so.
Colonel Newcomb, who was sitting in his tent bending over maps with his staff, summoned Dick. "You are a Kentuckian, my lad," he said, "and I thought you might know something about this region into which we are going." "Not much, sir," replied Dick. "My home is much further west in a country very different both in its own character and that of its people.
"The river bank, and the road along its shore give us a great position for defense, and I know we can hold it. Colonel Newcomb did not say so, but perhaps you'd better bring the train back nearer us. It's not our object to stay in this valley and fight, but to go into the west. Is all clear ahead?" "No enemy is there.
The silent mountains gave back every sound in dying echoes, but Canby paid no heed to them. His eyes were always on the track ahead, and he, too, was exultant. He had brought the regiment through, and while it was on the train his responsibility was not inferior to that of Colonel Newcomb.
Clare, we shall be glad to see you, he exclaimed; 'if not, we can say nothing further about the matter. Thus the friendly visitor got rid of the overwhelming fear of giving a dinner to a poor man for nothing. However, John Clare never in his life troubled Mr. Newcomb of Stamford for a dinner.
It's our business to get back with the dispatches to Colonel Newcomb as soon as possible, an' not let ourselves be delayed by this gang." "That is certainly true," said Dick. "Lead on, Mr. Petty, and we'll cross the mountain as fast as we can." Red Blaze started at once in a gallop, and Dick and the sergeant followed swiftly after.
So great a mathematician and scientist as Professor Simon Newcomb made the emphatic remark that the dream of flight in a heavier-than-air machine was absurd and would never be realized. The difficulty with all these conclusions lay in the fact that the much-vaunted "proof" was negative in character. Nothing is easier or more fallacious, logically than to "prove" that a thing is not so.
If they get ahead of us and have a little time to do it in they will certainly tear up the tracks." "I think you are right in all respects," said Colonel Newcomb. "But it is obvious that we must not give them time to destroy the road ahead of us. As for the rest, I wonder."
"Them things," said Zeb Kendrick, sagely, "are all right for ponds or rivers or cricks where there ain't no tide nor sea runnin'. Float anywheres where there's a heavy dew, they say they will. But no darter of mine should go out past the flats in one of 'em if I had the say. It's too big a risk." "Yup; well, Zeb, you ain't got the say, I cal'late," observed Thoph Newcomb.
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