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Show :-x-:i-:-x-:x-:-x:-i-:-x-:-x-:ivX-:-x-m-:x-:-x-:-x-:-x-:i-:-x-m-m:-x-m-:z-:x-:x:-x- Emerson Ideal Host to Weekly Visitors Kalph Waldo Emerson used to open the study in his Concord home to visitors vis-itors one day of each week during the winter. Chairs for the accommodation of the company would be ranged In a circle, and the farmers and shop- I .-.keepers of the neighborhood, as well as the Lowells, Holmeses. Alcotts and Longfeilows would occupy them side 'by side. At the head of the ring would sit Emerson, one leg crossed over the other knee, and such was their length and flexibility that he could twine the one round the other, so that the upper foot caught behind the lower ankle. Then, leaning forward on his elbow, he would smilingly receive questions and make observation. But he did not permit himself monologues, as Al-cott Al-cott could not help doing, but was concise, courteous and genial, liking better to hear than to speak. Julian Hawthorne in the Dearborn Independent. |