[Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Hoar]@TWC D-Link bookAutobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 CHAPTER VII 31/119
He said: "I will give you twice as much to kill him." Accordingly they accepted the offer and went away, leaving the old fellow alive, kept their bargain with him and killed his enemy. Sophocles had a great love of little children and a curious love of chickens which he treated as pets and liked to tame and to play with, squatting down on the ground among them as if he were a rooster himself.
It is said that during his last sickness the doctor directed that he should have chicken broth.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved. In what I have said about Professor Channing I am describing him and his method in instruction faithfully as it seemed to me at the time.
It is quite possible I may be wrong.
I am sure that the better scholars and the youths who were much better in every way than I was at that time of my life who were his pupils will dissent from my opinion and be shocked at what I say.
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