ese verses appear:--

At Old South there's a jarring pair,
If I am not mistaken,
One may descry with half an eye
That Hunt is far from Bacon.
Wise Hunt can trace out means of grace
As leading to conversion,
But Hopkins scheme is Bacons theme,
And strange is his assertion.

It mattered little, however, that Parson Bacon had to leave the Old
South, for that was soon no longer a church, but a riding school for
the British troops.

Mr. Bacon retired, after his dismissal, to Canterbury, Conn., his
birthplace. His friendly intimacy with Mrs. Deming proved of value
to her, for when she left Boston, in April, 1775, at the time of the
closing of the city gates, she met Mr. Bacon in Providence. She says
in her journal:--

"Towards evening Mr & M^rs Bacon, with their daughter, came into
town. M^r Bacon came to see me. Enquir'd into my designs, &c. I told
him truely I did not know what to do. That I had thot of giting
farther into the country. Of trying to place Sally in some family
where she might earn her board, & to do something like it for
Lucinda, or put her out upon wages. That when I left the plain I had
some faint hope I might hear from Mr Deming while I continued at
Providence, but that I had little of that hope remaining. M^r Bacon
advised me to go into Connecticutt, the very thing I was desirous
of. Mr Bacon sd that he would advise me for the present to go to
Canterbury, his native place. That he would give me a Letter to his
Sister, who would receive me kindly & treat me tenderly, & that he
would follow me there in a few days."

This advice Mrs. Deming took, and made Canterbury her temporary
home.

Mr. Bacon did not again take charge of a parish. After the
Revolution he became a magistrate, went to the legislature, became
judge of the court of common pleas, and a member of congress. He did
not wholly give up his disputatious ways, if we can judge from the
books written by and to him, one of the latter being, "A Droll,
a Deist, and a John Bacon, Master of Arts, Gently Reprimanded."

His wife, who was born in 1733, and died in Stockbridge in 1821, was
the daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, a Tory citizen of Boston,
a register of deeds, and a wealthy merchant. A portrait of Mrs.
Bacon, painted by Copley, is remarkable for its brilliant eyes and
beautiful hands and arms.

NOTE 4.

Rev. John Hunt was