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"He held my attention, I grant, but I don't call it a sermon; it was too elementary, it was nothing but a talk," she heard Mrs. Molesworth saying. "If it wasn't a sermon, it was something better," answered cheery Mrs. Parton. "Most magnetic speaker," the colonel was remarking to some one.
"Parton? well," began the porter, in a doubtful voice; but little Billy was up in a moment: "Yes, here they are! here's where we live!" shouted he, and the next minute the shed was entered by the gentleman and his son whom I had seen at the Zoological Gardens.
James Parton was often one of the company, in the days when he was arranging the material for his Life of Horace Greeley, material gathered from those who had known the great editor during his early days in New Hampshire and Vermont.
In the afternoons Colonel Parton sat on the front porch smoking and reading, threatening the dogs and the children indiscriminately, receiving not the slightest attention from either. As she passed him now, Belle mischievously deposited the kitten on his shoulder. "You baggage, you!
The town is rich in local history and has either produced or been the residence of a number of notable men and women. Judge William Tudor, the father of the ice business, now so colossal in its proportions, started the trade here, living on what is now the poor farm. Fanny Fern, the sister of N.P. Willis, the wife of James Parton, the celebrated biographer, as well as two sisters of Dr.
The road leads up and down this valley, and there would be no possibility of riding the horses across the hills, at night; so that we should have either to ride down through Parton, or up past the Bairds' hold. No, the horses must be given up, for the present. The only thing that I can see is to cross the Esk, and to take refuge in the hills.
"We bought a supply in Parton, yesterday evening, and have enough for a week; for we thought that some might be needed by the whole party, on our way; and moreover, we care not to go down often to the town, as we might attract attention." "That is good. Keep enough for tomorrow, for yourselves; I will take the rest." "There is no need for that.
In consequence of this conservatism Friendship one day awoke in the fashion. There were fine old homes in Friendship which in their soft-toned browns and grays seemed as much a part of the landscape as the forest trees that surrounded them and shaded the broad street. Associated with these mansions were names dignified and substantial, such as Molesworth, Parton, Gilpin, Whittredge.
Lamb, and wrote the "History of New York," and Samuel G. Goodrich, the famous "Peter Parley," and Alice Haven, popular writer of juvenile tales, and Justin McCarthy, and James Parton, husband of "Fanny Fern," himself one of these rare scribes of his age whose writing can be genuinely enjoyed by readers of the present generation, and occasionally, grim old Horace Greeley, who, if, as he said, in the course of forty years had never been able to get a day off to go "a-fishing," managed, now and then, to find an evening of leisure in which to divert himself with the pleasant, bookish talk at No. 53.
Parton calls his "regeneration." Others might view it as the completion of "sowing his wild oats." He certainly made himself very useful to the old visionary Keimer, who printed banknotes for New Jersey, by making improvements on the copper plate; but he soon left this employment and set up for himself, in partnership with another young man.
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