And the blue hills of Nottingham
Through gaps of leafy green
Across the lake were seen."


All these are still here, but one misses the maidens who ought to be
sitting there

"In the shadow of the ash
That dreams its dream in Attitash."


No doubt they are about here somewhere, only it takes a poet's eye to
find them. And yet it was not very far from here that there lived a few
years ago a young girl, a descendant of one of the early settlers of
Amesbury, who on her engagement said to a friend proudly:--"I am going
to marry a poor man, and I am going to help him." And so she always
nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition. The courage of the
old Puritans has not died out here any more than the old beauty has
deserted the land.

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KATE FIELD'S NEW DEPARTURE.

BY EDWARD INCREASE MATHER.