Show AN AW ECHO OF OLD CONCORD New York Sun iun To the Editor I was wan WI visiting Con Concard Conerd Conord and one while ago card ord Mass some sane day erd during q a stroll In tn the hood l ss CS A p vestige vet e of the tho great gret ho period perhaps interest sonic soni of ef your readers In a geld field feld about two miles from the center of the town a avery I Iver avery very mies aged man with wih a a hoc noe ho caught ver my attention by his I 1 stopped to watch him mm appearance hie his in interrupting and then succeeded labors for a chat which he at re ls resented r but soon son on account perhaps p d on day he of the warmth of or the his hil hoe bOf more mora willingly and answered an my questions He turned out nut to w U t b e a asmal small farmer tarm r born bom bor and bred l in the smal township and over 90 9 9 V yrs rs 1 tZ f age After some overtures wo we upon upun these reminiscences which I fluted fott down doo at the time The Native Mr Emerson Oh yes I remember him pretty well wel He pave free tree lectures in ConcOrd The Tourist Were they interesting Inter The Native Well yes y He lie e had something new t to say sy Tt where he was strong The But it I hard U to t understand him The Native Well there were 1 a 1 few long ong I ng words going around arund In tills town those days day One woman from the t coon coun country con try tr was at one of his hi lectures and rd wrote home saying s how line One It U was wasand wasand wasand and gave a string of all al the long wordS word hed used us There was did you ever eer hear of ot him H le HO was WS mire l re ocia coet ble more conversational than th tin tb others He was wa always ready red for a talk with any man He Ho said hed Bo go 00 to meeting if it I he might answer the mn Ister ster back back He Ie Ie go unless h he might speak too but but you ou se It u would have balked the minister all al to pieces to have him Im talking back He was wad never strong on the money side but his hla daughter Ive heard she ht made of 20 off of one of ot her hEl talon taloo tale Haw Hawthorne Hawthorne thorne Y I Ive often ofen seen leen him going gong for walks In tho north n rt WIth Air Mr lr Emerson and Thoreau Emerson wa was the only Mr In his recollections He liked keeping to himself but hed hei U o for Tor walks wall with the others sometimes tm No I never read any of oC his hi tales tae Ive Ive read some of cit Henry Hem writing and I heard beard him deliver delver the first lecture letur he lie ever gave The Tourist Was it I good goo The Tile Native Oh yes yen ye he worked some seme wit wi into it U It I was about the time tm he h was living at Walden He Rc said l some one had asked aske him him what he went to for far and he answered re Time T no e will wi show Ha lI ha lie haTe lieThe The Te Tourist Did he lie speak sp wall tl The Native Oh Ok yes yea well wol enough In Jn hi tilh hb manner of lect I guess gues gue he h w WN was trying deal dOal d nl to in If tat tott Mr Emerson n a g ld god d I The Tho Tourist knew all al about abt th the h hu s The Native Yen Mr Ir sU he tie knew w mora than any man in I the U Thee Thed was iS It u bore In I it those days day who made maliC his living by b hunting I guo h it I knew almost an as l about abut sorna sor MrIs hirIs as us Th ih i iTi Tin Ti T loan tonu vo nl l have 1 tn nr talks with lirt in he woo nj n I tho v u UM III tl him about abot coma sno birds ho lie hod kie killed This was ws w the queer thing the Uie te vor vr wilier sober when ni flu 10 lui It 1 any money but Thoreau talk wih him X lt when hen he was in m his hie hit rii nal sen Senfu Ta u Tourist all th i teuna I rl men in the town must mus hay hare made a 8 great Seat difference Did the people slop going to church through all al the tIe these e lie lec lectures 1 tures turen ture The Native When Mr Jr Emona Em 1 save ave e eup up going to meet lag that la i dif dir difference difference ference to them the People go after lUt that as a they used to in my young days das The The Tourist Thoreau pu pa his taxes would he heThe heThe heThe p The Native No but someone HSC ho paid them for him They keep kep him long log In Jail jai You see aee fee lit I bell veo In nature and so s for tor that reason rean rElm he believe in law The Tourist He used us to make bake for tor himself everything he hO wanted The Native Not everything He Ht learned lere to make a lead led pencil penol The Tourist Did he live lve by that trade trae The Native I guess gUOY his mother and sisters helped holpe him some His general feeling toward the great period was neither admiration nor ton ion tempt He surveyed it with wih an inde lode independent Independent pendent judicial calm ealm which might have pleased Thoreau himself himsl G 0 |