Identifier: zigzagjourneysin01butt (find matches)
Title: Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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pleted, he went after Mrs. Stafford, butrefused to give her any description of his new place. Across the Connecticuton horseback they hastened toward the mountains. Now as we ride along, said he, and notice the new settlements, tell mewhen we come to just such a house as you would like. They rode through Cheshire, once called the Kitchen, and at last the goodwoman lifted her eyes to a bowery hill almost in the shadow of Greylock. How beautiful ! said she. There is just such a home and placeas I should like to have. If I could only live there, I would be perfectlysatisfied. You shall live there, said her gallant husband. That is our home. Out of that vanished house he was borne down the hill to his last resting-place in the valley below, and poets and orators spoke his praise. Elder John Leland, born in Grafton, Massachusetts, in 1754, came toCheshire when quite a young man. He was on one occasion called upon tospeak from the pulpit, when the pastor was absent. There came to him a flow
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FOLK-LORE TALES IN THE OLD COLONIAL KITCHEN. 201 of words and ideas which astonished his hearers much and himself more, andhe felt that he was allotted to be a preacher. He was a Baptist-Quaker, likeRoger Williams. It has been asserted that his influence made Madison President. He trav-elled to a distance of many thousand miles, preaching; crowds followed himeverywhere, and queer stories of his eccentricities were repeated by everyfireside. Among the old Cheshire humorists and the old story-tellers of the tavernat New Providence, and the half-way inn at Cheshire on the old Boston andAlbany stage-route, were gallant Captain Stafford, the Bennington hero, Free-love Mason, the jolly mistress of the first regular stage-route hostelry, WilliamBrown, or Sweet Billy, -the Artemas Ward of Berkshire, —Elder JohnLeland, whose jokes were echoed ever by the sounding-board over his tallpulpit, and the rich old farmers by the name of Mason, Brown, Wood, andCole, and the stage-drivers. The story o

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