ed his varses to
Parson Wilbur."

WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS

1. Guvener B.: George Nixon Briggs of Massachusetts.

6. John P. Robinson was a lawyer (1. 59) of Lowell, Mass. Mr. Lowell
had no intention of attacking the individual here; Mr. Robinson changed
his party allegiance and the letter published over his signature called
Lowell's attention to him.

lb. Gineral C.: General Caleb Gushing, who took a prominent part in the
Mexican War, and was at this time the candidate for governor opposed to
Governor Briggs.

16. pelf: money.

23. vally: value.

32. eppyletts: epaulets, the mark of an officer in the army or navy.

39. debit, per contry: makes him the debtor and on the other side
credits us.

THE COURTIN'

17. crook-necks: gourds.

19. queen's-arm: musket.

33-34. He had taken at least twenty girls to the social events of the
town.

68. sekle: sequel, result.

94. The Bay of Fundy has an exceptionally high tide which rises with
great rapidity.

SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE

2. precerdents: legal decisions previously made which serve as models
for later decisions.

4. this-worldify. The women in early New England dressed very simply
and sternly, but the odor of musk would make them seem to belong to this
world, which has beauty as well as severity.

7. clawfoot: a piece of furniture, here a chest, having clawfeet.

38. pithed with hardihood. New England people had hardihood at the
center of their lives.

50. The bloodroot leaf is curled round the tiny write flower bud to
protect it.

56. haggle: move slowly and with difficulty.

100. vendoo: vendue, public sale.

117. What American poets express a similar need of nearness to nature?

144. Lowell's own education was four-story: grammar school, high school,
college, law school.

165. A good application of the old story of the man who killed the goose
that laid the golden eggs.

157. Cap-sheaf: the top sheaf on a stack and hence the completion of any
act.

165. Lowell, himself, seems to be talking in these last lines, and not
young Hosea Biglow.

209. English Civil War (1642-1649), which ended in the establishment of
the Commonwealth.

241. As Adam's fall "Brought death into the world, and all our woe," it
was considered by all Puritans as an event of highest importance; most
men agree that their wives' bonnets stand at the other end of the scale.

2&I. Crommle: Oliver Cromwell, under whom th