Show I 1 longfellow AS A LAD boyhood friendship with chum con linued through life the boyhood friendship between longfellow slid and edward deering preble has received scant attention from the tha formers biographers yet the two grow grew up together writes peter freneau neau in the delineator hand in hand band they said good morning mistress to the prim maam who kept the dames school la in portland later at the academy on congress street they wielded goose quills under the watchful eyes of jacob abbot a pedagogue famed in his day the same flying he wagon or stage coach that bore bora Long longfellow tellow oft off to bowdoin college in brunswick Brunsw lck took young preble damon longfellow and pythias aroble it was a happy pair 0 of boys that sat eat beneath tho the longfellow elms reading washington irvings sketch book and other delightful tales at an early age they both began to scribble verses when rong longfellow fellow was thirteen years old he published a poem in the tha portland gazette entitled the battle battie of lovells levells Lov ells pond about which an amusing and halt half pathetic story is 1 told old on the day of its appearance the tha lad ad read and reread it with increase ing ag satisfaction in the evening feeling almost vainglorious he be went to visit at the house of judge mellon hose hosa son frederick was a fellow classmate there conversation drifted to poetry and the judge indignantly seized the mornings gazette and unconscious of the wounds inflicted called the battle batlle of lovells levells Lov ells pond a remarkably stiff and unoriginal composition there were tears on long iong fellows pillow that night and in the morning he be no doubt confided his sorrow borrow to his friend |