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I remember his father, Major Gideon Withers. He had a great red feather on training-days, that was what made me remember him. Who did you say was sick and wanted to see me, Fordyce?" "Myrtle Hazard, father, she has had a narrow escape from drowning, and it has left her in a rather nervous state. They would like to have you go up to The Poplars and take a look at her. You remember Myrtle Hazard?
The training-days, or general quarters, now and then taking place in our frigate, have already been described, also the Sunday devotions on the half-deck; but nothing has yet been said concerning the daily morning and evening quarters, when the men silently stand at their guns, and the chaplain simply offers up a prayer. Let us now enlarge upon this matter.
"My thoughts," he said, "are roving from girls to friends, from friends to court, and from court to Greece and Rome," showing that enthusiastic, versatile temperament which then and afterwards characterized him. Not long after that, he had given up Justinian. "You may get more by studying town-meetings and training-days," he writes. "Popularity is the way to gain and figure."
I offered to give him a receipt for making a New England in Virginia. He desired it; and I recommended to him town-meetings, training-days, town-schools, and ministers." The "ministers," it will be noticed, come last on the Adams list. But the order of precedence is unimportant. Here are four symbols, or, if you like, "reverences."
But the wan ghost in the corner lifted its head to look at her, and slowly brightened as to something worthy a spirit's love, and a dim phantom's smiles. Now then, Dr. Renton! the lines are drawn, and the foe is coming. Be martial, sir, as when you stand in the ranks of the Cadets on training-days! Steady, and stand the charge! So he did.
It held large supplies of stores, and was amply furnished with arquebuses, sakers, and murtherers, a species of naval ordnance which probably did not belie its name. It also boasted, we are told, of two drums for training-days, and no fewer than fifteen hautboys and soft-voiced recorders all which suggests a mediaeval castle, or a grim fortress in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
For seven months the two judges lived in Cambridge at the house of Major Daniel Gookin, a member of the governor's council and a fellow passenger of theirs in the Prudent Mary. They went to church on Sundays, and no doubt on "training-days" they watched the train-bands practice, for they were famous fighters themselves.
At the crupper of his saddle an old cavalry saddle that had seen service in long-forgotten training-days was attached a cylindrical valise of cowhide, containing a change of linen, a few toilet articles, a vulcanized cloth cape for rainy days, and the first volume of The Earthly Paradise. A broad-brimmed Panama hat, a suit of navy-blue flannel, and a pair of riding-boots completed his equipment.
I remember his father, Major Gideon Withers. He had a great red feather on training-days, that was what made me remember him. Who did you say was sick and wanted to see me, Fordyce?" "Myrtle Hazard, father, she has had a narrow escape from drowning, and it has left her in a rather nervous state. They would like to have you go up to The Poplars and take a look at her. You remember Myrtle Hazard?
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