John got to going out to the camp to get away from visitors at the Shop.
He found the place quiet and comforting. The woods gave him freedom to
think and write. It so developed that he would spend about four days a
month there, writing the "Little Journey" for the next month. How many of
his masterpieces were written at the Camp I can not say, but for several
years it was his Retreat and he used it constantly.

He reminded us boys several times when we kicked, that he had a good claim
on it--for didn't he furnish the door and the window-frames?

I never suspected he would recognize them.




GEORGE WASHINGTON

He left as fair a reputation as ever belonged to a human
character.... Midst all the sorrowings that are mingled on this
melancholy occasion I venture to assert that none could have felt
his death with more regret than I, because no one had higher
opinions of his worth.... There is this consolation, though, to
be drawn, that while living no man could be more esteemed, and
since dead none is more lamented.
--Washington, on the Death of Tilghman

[Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON]