He used to talk to the children in the Sunday-school, and occasionally would gather them together in the evening for a long discourse.

I am ashamed to say that we thought Mr.Alcott rather stupid.

He did not make any converts to his theories among the boys.
He once told us that it was wicked to eat animal food; that the animal had the same right to his life that we had to ours, and we had no right to destroy the lives of any of God's creatures for our own purposes.

He lived only on vegetable food, as he told us.

But he had on at the time a very comfortable pair of calfskin boots, and the boys could not reconcile his notion that it was wicked to kill animals to eat, with killing animals that he might wear their hides.