Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 312
small, friendly services as lay in mypower, but the memory of the repulse I had sustainedstill rankled in me. So I hesitated. One morning my two boys burst into the library withtheir eyes sparkling. You know the old elm down the road ? cried one. Yes. The elm with the hang-birds nest? shrieked… … n OUFFLOUS masters weresome boys and girls. Theywere very poor, but theywere very merry. They^^ lived in an old, dark, tumble-^^ down place, and their fatherhad been dead five years; theirmothers care was all theyknew; and Tasso was the eldestof them all, a lad of nearly twenty, and he was so…
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