Natural philosophy, he declared, was far and away more important than Latin.
Memory goes back very fondly to those evenings in the old sitting-room, they were so illumined by great hopes ahead.

Thomas and I, at a light-stand apart from the others, were usually puzzling out a Fable--_The Lion, The Oxen, The Kid and the Wolf, The Fox and the Lion_, or some one of a dozen others--holding noisy arguments over it till Master Pierson from the large center table, called out, "Less noise over there among those Latin infants! Caesar is building his bridge over the Rhine.

You are disturbing him." Addison, always very quiet when engrossed in study, scarcely noticed or looked up, unless perhaps to aid Catherine and Theodora for a moment, with some hard passage.

It was Tom and I who made Latin noisy, aggravated at times by pranks from Halstead, whose studies in natural philosophy were by no means diligent.

At intervals of assisting us with our translations of Caesar and the Fables, Master Pierson himself was translating the Greek of Demosthenes' Orations, and also reviewing his Livy--to keep up with his Class at College.