. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. ood, hesaid he was always glad when it came his turn to stay athome on First Day. The chaise, driven to Amesbury —nine miles — every First and Fifth Day, fortunately wasnot of a capacity to take the whole family at once. Thisgave him an occasional opportunity, much enjoyed, tospend the day musing by the brook, or in the shade ofthe oaks and hemlocks on the breezy hilltops, which com-manded a view unsurpassed for beauty. These hills, whichso closely encompass the ancient homestead at the westand south, are among the highest in the county. Fromthem one
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. ood, hesaid he was always glad when it came his turn to stay athome on First Day. The chaise, driven to Amesbury —nine miles — every First and Fifth Day, fortunately wasnot of a capacity to take the whole family at once. Thisgave him an occasional opportunity, much enjoyed, tospend the day musing by the brook, or in the shade ofthe oaks and hemlocks on the breezy hilltops, which com-manded a view unsurpassed for beauty. These hills, whichso closely encompass the ancient homestead at the westand south, are among the highest in the county. Fromthem one gets glimpses of the ocean in Ipswich Bay, theundulating hills of Newbury, cultivated to their tops, on the HAVERHILL further side of the Merrimac, the southern ranges of theNew Hampshire mountains, and the heights of \Aachusettand Monad nock in Massachusetts. Po Hill, in Amesbury,under which stands the Quaker meeting-house wherehis parents worshiped, shows its great round dome inthe east. He never tired of these views, and celebrated. X^^UH SCENE OF IN SCHOOL DAYS them in many of his poems. He especially dreaded thewinter drives to meeting. Buffalo robes were not so plentyin those days as they became a few years later, and ourfathers did not dress so warmlv as do we. He was sostiffened by cold on some of these drives to Amesburythat he told me his teeth could not chatter until thawedout. Winter had its compensations, as he has so wellshown in Snow-Bound. But it is noticeable that he doesnot refer in that poem to the winter drives to meeting. 34 \\ lIIlni;i<LAND On one occasion lie improved the al)sence of his parentson a First Day to j;o nutting. He clini]:)ecl a tall walnut,and had a fall of about twenty feet which came near beingfatal. The Friends did not theoretically hold one daymore sacred than another, and yet theirs was the habit ofthe Puritan community, to abstain from all play as wellas from work on the Sabbath, and this fall gave a smartfillip to the young po
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