How's the Deacon, Miss Withers ?" [Ob.

1810.] "My grandfather is not living, Dr.Hurlbut," she screamed into his ear.
"Dead, is he?
Well, it isn't long since he was with us; and they come and go,--they come and go.

I remember his father, Major Gideon Withers.
He had a great red feather on training-days,--that was what made me remember him.

Who did you say was sick and wanted to see me, Fordyce ?" "Myrtle Hazard, father,--she has had a narrow escape from drowning, and it has left her in a rather nervous state.

They would like to have you go up to The Poplars and take a look at her.