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Show ARTEMUS WARD'S TRIP TO BOSTON - While the great observer of men, and one of the keenest readers of character, Brown took comparatively little notice of places and other objects of interest. A lady who knew him well said that had a beggar in rags been seated by the most beautiful statue, he would have seen the beggar first. This neglect of places several times brought him grief. Once, when going from Waterford to Boston, he went on board a steamer at Portland, late in the evening, and at once retired to his stateroom. A storm was threatening and the boat did not leave. He arose early in the morning and, going out upon the landing called a hackman and asked to be conveyed to the Revere House. And not until he had broken the third commandment and had threatened to break the sixth, could he be persuaded that he was yet in Portland. - Scribner. |