intellectual and emotional life.

A man who as a lad had roamed the Roxbury hills with John Burroughs
and his brothers, and had known the boy John as something of a
dreamer, and thought of him in later years as perhaps of less account
than his brothers (since they had settled down, owned land, and were
leading industrious lives), was traveling in Europe in the eighties.
On the top of a stage-coach in the Scottish Highlands he sat next a
scholarly-looking man whose garb, he thought, betokened a priest.
From some question which the traveler put, the Englishman learned
that the stranger was from America. Immediately he showed a lively
interest. "From America! Do you, then, know John Burroughs?"

Imagine the surprise of the Delaware County farmer at being
questioned about his schoolmate, the dreamer, who, to be sure,
"took to books"; but what was he that this Englishman should
inquire about him as the one man in America he was eager to learn
about! Doubtless Mr. Burroughs was the one literary man the
Delaware County farmer did know, though his knowledge was on the
personal and not on the literary side. And imagine the surprise of
the priest (if priest it was) to find that he had actually lighted
upon a schoolmate of the author!--C. B.]



CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH


I seem to have been a healthy, active child, very impressionable,
and with more interests and a keener enjoyment of things than most