Miss Caroline Ticknor tells us how he used to lie on a couch in a back room at the Old Corner Bookstore in Boston, at a very early hour, and amuse the boys who were sweeping and dusting the store until one of the partners arrived.

I believe he never lost a chance to indulge in a verbal quibble.

"In the meantime, and 'twill be a very mean time." I often regret that I did not preserve his comical letters, and those of Richard Grant White and other friends who were literary masters.
Mr.Grant White helped me greatly when I was doubtful about some literary question, saying he would do anything for a woman whose name was Kate.

And a Dartmouth graduate, whom I asked for a brief story of Father Prout, the Irish poet and author, gave me so much material that it was the most interesting lecture of my season.

He is now a most distinguished judge in Massachusetts.
Saxe, like other humourists, suffered from melancholia at the last.
Too sad! After giving a lecture in the chapel of Packer Institute at the time I was with Mrs.Botta in New York, I was surprised to receive a call the next morning from Mr.Charles Storrs of 23 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, asking me to go to his house, and make use of his library, which he told me Horace Greeley had pronounced the best working and reference library he had ever known.