The result was that Curtis was not troubled again.
You could not attack or rally him without some bright reply.
Horace Gray, afterward the judge, went shooting one day and met Curtis as he was coming back with his gun over West Boston Bridge.

Curtis asked him if he had shot anything.

Gray said, "No, nothing but a hawk in Watertown.

I stopped at the Museum as I came by, and gave it to Agassiz." "I suppose Agassiz said 'Accipter,'" said Curtis.
When Professor Greenleaf resigned his place at the Dane Law School, much to the regret of the students, it was proposed to secure a likeness of him for the lecture room.

There was some discussion whether it should be a bust or a picture, and if a bust what should be the material.