20/119 I can only remember two lines: Quin deigned a grin, perforce, And Hoar a roar, of course. He fell on the ice and broke his hip a little while before his death. He was treated by the somewhat savage method of the surgery of the time. Dr.George E.Ellis, from whom I had the story, went to see him one day at his house on Park Street and found the old man lying on his bed with a weight hanging from his foot, which projected over the bed, to keep the bones in their place and the muscles from contracting. He said to Mr.Quincy's daughter: "You have been shut up here a long time. |